How far (and where!) does
this go? It was in the news in July re New Jersey. The network involved mayors, rabbis, state lawmakers, fire inspectors - with ties to Switzerland and Israel. Arrests were the result of a 10 year FBI investigation. Man, I am
tired of charges of antisemitism WRT crime.
VIDEO-
http://www.truveo.com/fbi-probe-nets.../id/2302756018
FBI SITE
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/july09/corruption_072409.html
Three New Jersey mayors, two state legislators, numerous political operatives, and five well-known rabbis from New York and New Jersey were among those arrested. Charges include politicians accepting cash bribes and rabbis laundering millions of dollars through their tax-exempt charitable organizations. One defendant allegedly conspired to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant at a cost of $160,000.
FBI ARRESTS MAYORS, RABBIS IN NEW JERSEY SWEEP
Last updated: 4:58 pm July 23, 2009
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232009...sey_180897.htm
Three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen and roughly 40 other officials and private citizens, including rabbis, were rounded up today by federal authorities after a massive, 10-year investigation of an international money laundering ring. The ring allegedly trafficked in goods as diverse as human organs and fake designer handbags. Suspects were taken by the carload to the FBI's Newark office, with cars at times stacked four-deep waiting to unload their passengers.
Mayors, rabbis arrested in corruption probe
updated 4:37 p.m. EDT, Thu July 23, 2009
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/23/new.jersey.arrests/
Among the 15 are five rabbis, including the national leader of the Syrian Jewish community. They are alleged to have laundered more than $3 million in a "high-volume, international money-laundering conspiracy," Marra said. Their alleged dealings stretched to Israel and Switzerland.