Tel Aviv, Israel — Israel plays a prominent role in the charges of money laundering and human organ black marketing that have swept five rabbis into a New Jersey federal corruption investigation.
Among other things, Israeli banks were allegedly key transit points for the money laundering operation, which also involved charities closely linked to Israel’s Shas party, a powerful Sephardic political faction that is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition. The rabbis accused of laundering money were allegedly told that it came from sales of knockoff products labeled as legitimate brands and from other illicit activities.
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Joseph Cannon has been following this and doing outstanding work on it. Here's today's follow-up but make sure to read his earlier post on the topic (link is in the first paragraph) to really get the full shocking details. Takes some time/work to read and absorb it all but worth the effort:
ReplyDeletehttp://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2009/07/of-mosers-and-monsters.html