Shimon Haber, Who Pleaded Guilty To Money Laundering In Dwek Scheme, Gets 5 Months In Prison

Haber was also ordered to serve five months of home confinement. Haber pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to help Dwek launder between $10,000 and $30,000 in purported criminal proceeds through a religious charity.

Shimon Haber, who pleaded guilty in N.J. corruption bust, gets five months in prison

By Joe Ryan • The Star-Ledger

A Union City developer and former business partner of FBI informant Solomon Dwek was sentenced to five months in prison today on money laundering charges.

Shimon Haber, 34, of Brooklyn, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares to serve five months of home confinement.

Haber pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to help Dwek launder between $10,000 and $30,000 in purported criminal proceeds through a religious charity.

His lawyer, Charles A. Stillman, asked Linares to sentence Haber to probation, saying he was a charitable father of four who had been duped by Dwek, an admitted real estate swindler whose later work as an informant led to charges against 46 people.

When he pleaded guilty, Haber also acknowledged conspiring to funnel money into the campaign account of an unnamed Union City elected official as part of an effort to gain approvals for a real estate project.

Court filings and campaign finance reports show the money went to an election campaign associated with Mayor Brian Stack. The mayor has not been charged with any wrongdoing and has declined repeated requests to discuss the matter.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Dustin Chao said Haber was a “willing participant and helper in Mr. Dwek’s purported schemes.” The prosecutor asked the judge to sentence him according to the terms of his plea agreement, which called for a range of 10 to 16 months.

[Hat Tip: WSC.]

Comments

[WoolSilkCotton]

Another yarmulked head, in white shirt, handcuffed and doing the perp walk.

[Bill]

Another penguin on the match!

[Dr Moe]

Wools & Bill,

Although Shimion is wrong for breaking the law but compare these crooks to killers such as Martin Grossman, Dylan Kliebold, Son of Sam all Monsters, Adam Gaddam coming from Secular Jews.

Never mind the Super Secular Jew crook Madooff he is Mickey Mouse compared to the above mentioned Secular Jewish monsters.

[Mikal W. Grass]

And Haber received a mickey mouse sentence compared to that of Madoff.

[effie]

Was Goldstein a secular Jew?
29 killed/125 injured

Grossman: 1 killed/0 injured
Kleibold: 13 killed/21 injured
Berkowiz: 6 killed/7 injured
Gaddam: none that I am aware of.

Total:
religious: 29/125
secular: 20/28

The religious win the murder and mayhem Olympics.

[Shmarya]

And Haber received a mickey mouse sentence compared to that of Madoff.

Check the federal sentencing guidelines. The amount of money Haber laundered was relatively small. He pleaded guilty and it was his first offense.

[Dr Moe]

Effie,

Interesting so only 1 orthodox Murder compared to dozens of Secular Jewish Murders!!!

I can add more Secular Jewish murders; I just didn’t want to embarrass anyone here.

The bottom line is there are more secular Jewish criminal Murders monsters then Orthodox Jewish.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Dr. Moe, is there a contest to see which Jews can murder more people?
Are you satisfied that the orthodox, who are only 10% of all Jews, still commit so many of the crimes by Jews in total, and so many are rabbis?

Remember Moe, only the orthodox have it in their Torah that it is ok to murder as long as you are trying to please God with the murders. It is also ok in the orthodox Torah to lie and cheat and steal as long as you do it from nonJews.

[Dr Moe]

Wools,

your wrong more Secular Jews commit murders then Orthodox Jews.

It is an undeniable fact even your gang leader Rabbi Morris Allen agrees with this fact.

[Cheskel]

The bottom line is there are more secular Jewish criminal Murders monsters then Orthodox Jewish.

Posted by: Dr Moe | May 25, 2010 at 01:00 PM

Its no secret that as much as there are Orthodox Jews in prison you only know it because its news and strange.

Seldom will you hear them being in prison for stealing big bucks. Orthodox Jews in general are law abiding citizen's and trusted people. Some of you self hating Jews will start screaming: food stamps welfare etc.and all the non sense.

There were many times when a non-jew or a secular Jew committed a crime they disguised themselves as a hasidic Jew. Couple of months ago there was a big stick up on 47st diamond district and they were let in the building because they were dressed hassidic. does it say anything about orthodox jews?

[WoolSilkCotton]

There is an entire prison in NY State filled with plenty of hasidic Jews. What does that say about hasidic Jews?

It is no longer strange for Hasidic Jews to be in prison. It is now de rigueur for the hasidic velt. There are buses arranged from Crown Heights, Boro Park and Williamsburg for visits to Otisville.

Who is this Rabbi Morris Allen? If he is my leader, why haven't I heard from him? If he's a rabbi, he would have asked me for money by now, don't you think?

[WoolSilkCotton]

At my workplace, we serve lots of frumma yidden from Lakewood.
EVERY ONE, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, presents a Medicaid card when it's time to pay the bill.

Dr. Moe, Cheskel, please explain.

[Dr Moe]

At my workplace, we serve lots of frumma yidden from Lakewood.
EVERY ONE, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, presents a Medicaid card when it's time to pay the bill.

We don't know who you work for, you can even make up your own age today and change it tomorrow on this blog, just like the witness for the DA :)

[seymour]

Dr. Moe

of course there are most secular criminals then Orthodox. But if one would compile the numbers by percentage my guess would be the Orthodox would lead the pack.

In addition the secular do not rally around our criminal element and make them honored members of the community. The Orthodox do that almost every time

[seymour]

a few years ago there was a study that the people who did the study found very odd.

Boro Park and williamsburg had one of the highest percentage of people on welfare and food stamps, but also had the highest percentage of people buying the most expensive baby carriages.

explain

[Cheskel]

There are no buses taking visitors to prison.

However,since Orthodox/hasididc Jews are doing good deeds on a constant basis,this is one of their good deeds that they are going to visit JEWISH prisoners without exception of secular/reform.

Morris Allen like you is delighted that a Jew like Rubasshkin is going to prison.

Hassidc Jews many many of them have large families and make little money that's why the government is helping with medicaid,food stamps

[Bill]

Not enough haredi murders and rapes are reported because the information is suppressed and seldom reported to police.

There are plenty of violent crimes among Orthodox Jews.

[Dr Moe]

In addition the secular do not rally around our criminal element and make them honored members of the community. The Orthodox do that almost every time

Name us just one Orthodox Jewish criminal who was made an honorable member of the community? just 1? and I hope you say Rubashkin :)

[WoolSilkCotton]

Do you remember the hasidic family (wife and children) that was killed in a horrible car accident on the highway in NY state on their way to visit the husband/father who was in prison in Otisville for lying, cheating, and stealing?
One sin brings down all Jews, Cheskel. Nobody sins alone. Rubashkin is not sinning alone. He is destroying all Jews. Better he should have thrown away his yarmulke and shaved his beard before the trial, so America will not associate other Jews with him, and he should stop claiming to be part of religious Jewry.

BTW Cheskel, there are buses organized to take families to Otisville on visitation days, and it's not for visiting strangers as some 'good deed'. Nobody wants a repeat of that horrible accident from several years ago.

[Dr Moe]

Not enough haredi murders... are reported..

Please backup your claim that no Haredi Murder was reported..

[Cheskel]

Not enough haredi murders and rapes are reported because the information is suppressed and seldom reported to police.

There are plenty of violent crimes among Orthodox Jews.Posted by: Bill | May 25, 2010 at 02:37 PM

If its not reported then how does Bill the self hating jew know?

[Dr Moe]

Do you remember the hasidic family (wife and children) that was killed in a horrible car accident

No we don't know that story, also this was private car not a bus.. IF this story is true..

[WoolSilkCotton]

Dr. Moe, is your memory so short? The funeral for Grossman? The dinner in honor of that criminal in Lakewood, where all the chief rabbis attended and hugged the criminal? The Mountain Dew Party?

[Cheskel]

"Do you remember the hasidic family (wife and children) that was killed in a horrible car accident on the highway in NY state on their way to visit the husband/father who was in prison in Otisville for lying, cheating, and stealing?"

Yes i remember. and your point is?

""Rubashkin is not sinning alone. He is destroying all Jews. Better he should have thrown away his yarmulke and shaved his beard before the trial, so America will not associate other Jews with him, and he should stop claiming to be part of religious Jewry.""

Rubashkin main sin that he is a hasidic Jew. He broke "laws" but his business was not out to steal,rob,break laws. I bet MOST business are doing the same.And if you say its not true,then wsc you are lying.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Dr. Moe, the story of the family that was killed was reported as a fact in The Jewish Press a few years ago, including the names of all the victims, in a full page article.
There was some controversy, and understandably so, when the JP reported that the family was returning from visiting their husband/father in prison, where he was serving time for serious financial crimes. Some people felt that to mention this was an unnecessary 'shtech' at the family that was already embarrassed by the man being in prison and the compounded tragedy of the fatal accident.
And you are denying that the story is true? You are obviously disingenuous. You say you don't know this story, but then you knew it was a car and not a bus. You are a liar, plain and simple.

[Dr Moe]

Wools,

Many orthodox were against to uphold Grossman execution, also they were not saying to free him they were just opposing the death penalty and his crime should be blamed on his secular upbring, had Grossman gone to Yeshiva he would not have committed this crazy crime, and I know some will start saying Baruch Goldstien, however Goldtsien is only 1 but there seems to be way more Secular Jewish murders then Orthodox.

[Bill]

cheskel,

I detest filthy, uneducated, and crooked Haredim and right-of-center Orthodox.

These are a blight upon the Jewish people.

There is nothing self-like about them.

[WoolSilkCotton]

++Rubashkin main sin that he is a hasidic Jew. He broke "laws" but his business was not out to steal,rob,break laws.++

Cheskel, you summarized your position perfectly. You are convinced his prosecution was entirely antisemitism, and that he did not break any 'real' laws, just American laws, which don't really count.

And that is why nobody outside of the orthodox world has any respect for your opinions.

Dr. Moe, Chabad always acted pro 'law and order' and in favor of the death penalty for crimes against Jews, but when the criminal is a Jew and the victim isn't, they want leniency? Try selling that to the American public.
Every criminal has a sad story about their upbringing, and so did Grossman. Too bad, so sad. Whether you are/were/could-have-been/planning-to-become religious, murder is murder.
Your defense of Chabad's Grossman fiasco disconnects you with all decent Americans who believe in equal justice under the law. You are giving notice here that you are not fit to live in American society. Moe, there is something terribly wrong with the way you think. I truly feel bad for you, because I know you're a good guy who's been brainwashed.

[Dr Moe]

Ummm Woools,

I happen to be pro of the death penalty for Grossman just like for everyone else, The Aleph Institute only felt bad for Grossman because he did his crime due to his secular upbringing and the Jury found him to be and was legally sane when he committed his crime, had Grossman gone to a Yeshiva he would not have committed this crime, and interesting that no one from Grossman own secular community went to help CORRECT the poor guy even while in the CORRECTIONAL facility.

It was Aleph Institute who tried to correct Grossman from his not good up bringing

[Cheskel]

"I detest filthy, uneducated, and crooked Haredim and right-of-center Orthodox.

These are a blight upon the Jewish people.

There is nothing self-like about them.""

Bill Wsc, "filthy" as in:schmutzige juda?

[WoolSilkCotton]

Cheskel, you win the Hitler Prize, for being the first person to mention the Holocaust! Seig Heil to you!

Actually, I would mean 'filthy' as in not showering with soap and water, but just going to the mikvah as your daily bath. Or perhaps you'd prefer a shower with Zyklon B, Cheskel, since you brought up the Holocaust?

[WoolSilkCotton]

Dr. Moe, 3:40, you really sound drunk. Please take a nap.

The vast majority of Jews have a secular upbringing, but are not murderers.
Grossman was in prison for over 27 years. You do not know what his family did or didn't try on his behalf.

[Cheskel]

Wsc Bill, you mentioned Hitler first it first by calling Jews filthy. we had this discussion before, who is leading more cleaner lives.

Just wondering how does it happen that a Jew should hate other Jews with such a passion as you wsc bill has

[WoolSilkCotton]

Calling filthy people filthy has nothing to do with Hitler. You made it so by using the old German wording.

Cheskel, please restate your 4:15 second paragraph more coherently, and I will try to respond.

[effie]

Since the religious are always snatching the body and rioting to obstruct murder investigations, the murder rate among them is probably much higher than we know.

[effie]

Dr Moe: Everybody on death row has a fan club and groupies these days.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Dr. Moe and Cheskel, because you remain sheltered and disconnected from American history and current events, you do not realize how the orthodox are repeating the same mistakes that other groups have already done in dealing with criminals of their own race/religion/ethnicity, and with convicted murderers on death row who become celebrity causes.

[Bill]

Cheskel,

I'm not sure why you go all Heil Hitler on us whenever someone says something totaly true about Haredim.

Everyone knows that they are dirty and that they smell bad.

They even have a special holiday for being dirty and smelling bad called "The Nine Days," which is smack in the middle of the summer, when they don't shower for more than a week straight.

It's a mitzvah for them to be filthy and to walk around with swamp ass all day long.

Why would you want to denigrate and deny a mitzvah?

[WoolSilkCotton]

The only thing the haredim launder is money.

[Cheskel]

Wsc bill, do you wash your bf ass before shtoping?

[WoolSilkCotton]

Cheskel, you win again! When you run out of things to say, bring up Hitler, accuse your opponent of being gay, use vulgarity, or all of the above!

If you are indeed curious about gay sex and personal hygiene during anal sex, please consider a visit to your local mikvah.

[Dr Moe]

Wools,

You don’t have to worry to much about future Secular Jewish killers, Murders and gangsters the way things are going at this very rate, most Secular Jews are Intermarrying and their kids don’t care about even showing up for the once a year Yom Kippur breakfast at the Temples that are slowly being fazed out of business or they are becoming Baal Tshuvas.

With this going rate the only future Jews will be the Orthodox, I am not saying this in a nasty way but this is the truth.

[Bill]

Moe,

The future, and present, of Orthodoxy is to instigate and exacerbate anti-Semitic sentiments and activities worldwide.

[Shlomo]

Hey everyone can we please raise the level of comments somewhat

[Bill]

The next holocaust will be because of the Orthodox/Haredim.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Dr. Moe 6:15, that is the same silly shit I used to hear at the Lubavitcher yeshiva 40 years ago. Save it for the Thursday night farbrengen, and don't forget to puke into the toilet, not the sink.

Funny thing is, it's the orthodox that have become more polarized, radical, and criminal. Their kids are locked into ghettos of mental illness and isolationist paranoia.

Nonorthodox Jews have established their own identity as part of a great tradition and heritage, in step with today's world.
My kids are successful and actively participate in Judaism, both in culture and a reasonable degree of observance.

Us nonorthodox are doing just fine, thank you. You've been calling for doom and gloom for over 100 years, and you're still waiting. Good luck with your hatred of nonorthodox Jews.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Chabad has caused itself immeasurable harm with the meshichist insanity, the Grossman fiasco, and now the Rubashkin Crime Family.
50 years of progress towards kindling interest in traditional Judaism under the Rebbe's leadership has been flushed away by the fanatics and idiots who took over after his death, supporting necromancy and criminality.

If Chabad continues on this course, and regresses into irrelevancy on the Jewish scene, there will be little or no connection remaining between orthodox and nonorthodox Jews. The orthodox will polarize and isolate themselves into oblivion, as the only contact the rest of society will have with them is to see orthodox men in handcuffs on the way to prison.

[Dr Moe]

Woools,

LOL you so funny :) I was talking about the statistics that even the likes of Rabbi Morris Allen are complaining that membership is in decline, we are not talking about person to person basis but as a group of people, Grossman is dead, Rubashkin will be fine and Chabad is tripling since Gimmel Tammuz and of course here and there a few don’t like but that is fine in every group you have that.

There is way more decline in Reform and conservative temples, while Chabad is just growing and growing both by birth rate and new people just wanting spirituality.

[Devorah]

Name us just one Orthodox Jewish criminal who was made an honorable member of the community? just 1? and I hope you say Rubashkin :)

Posted by: Dr Moe | May 25, 2010 at 02:44 PM
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Nathan Rothschild of Monsey is the East Ramapo School Board President and is an honorable member of the community. He is being sued for the second time by another set of partners for embezzlement, fraud, and a host of other crimes. He may go to jail, but is still the President of a large organization. Need more examples?

[harold]

Boro Park and williamsburg had one of the highest percentage of people on welfare and food stamps, but also had the highest percentage of people buying the most expensive baby carriages.

explain

They have a lot of poor and a lot of rich people. These are communities where rich and poor can live side by side without being stuck up about it.

In the secular world rich people don't like to associate and don't want poor people to live within their gated communities. The frum don't have this issue.

[effie]

No, harold, they just don't want criminals coming into their homes, burglarizing them, robbing them on the street, and raping their wives. The gates are to keep out criminals.

[Dr Moe]

Nathan Rothschild of Monsey is the East Ramapo School Board President and is an honorable member of the community. He is being sued for the second time by another set of partners for embezzlement, fraud, and a host of other crimes. He may go to jail, but is still the President of a large organization. Need more examples?

No one has ever heard of this guy I even had to Google this guy up, because I asked my orthodox friends they never heard of this guy Nathan Rothchild and after googling him up he is a local story in Monsey he is NOT and repeat NOT being some honorable member of the Orthodox Community at whole or at large.

1 down next please!!!

[libby in the hood]

WoolSilky: Great posts. You are certainly the man with the words.

And to Bill, although my child has strayed from the fold, I take comfort in the fact that she doesn't smell.

[effie]

And now for a little humor: Great Jewish Moments in Law & Order

[Bill]

"Name one Orthodox Jewish Criminal who was made an honorable member of the community" - Moe

There are many:

Aryeh Deri - famous convicted criminal

Rabbi Moshe Srulovic - criminal returned to a heros wecome
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2009/07/haredi-rabbi-pleads-guilty-to-fraud.html

Rabbi Shimon Ben Lakish - famous gangster, and robber.

[Dr Moe]

Aryeh Deri - famous convicted criminal

The Orthodox Community at large and as WHOLE did not make this guy an Honorable member and I believe he served time plus paid the fines..

Rabbi Moshe Srulovic - criminal returned to a heros wecome
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2009/07/haredi-rabbi-pleads-guilty-to-fraud.html

Again the Orthodox community at LARGE did not make this guy a hero or Honorable.

Rabbi Shimon Ben Lakish - famous gangster, and robber.

WOW nobody ever heard of this guy, is he Madoff Cousin? :)

[Bill]

Moe,

you didn't say as a whole at the outset. Nice try changing the rules...

and by the way, Rabbi Shimon Ben Lakish was accepted by Orthodox Jew as a whole. he is very, very famous among the orthodox.

[Rivky]

Why is everyone knocking orthodox Jews. I am a 24 year old formerly reform Jewess who at 17 became orthodox. Its a wild story in itself as I became drawn to orthodoxy through a certain orthodox blogger who came across very wild. I started debating him and I was dead curious to see who he was so I asked him to meet me for coffee. He said he could not if I dont wear a long dress. I searched my closet but had only pants and shorter skirts so he offered to buy me a long skirt. He gave me an address in Brooklyn and I picked a skirt and he payed for it over the phone to this religious womens dress shop. I liked the thrill and finally when he came to pick me up he arrived in this H2 hummer. He was extremely handsome and took me to a fancy kosher place to eat. He was amazing because he showed me how to wash for bread and told me to answer amen on each blessing he made after we ate being that I did not know hebrew. The guy answered every one of my questions and refused to give me even a good night kiss. I realized then that there are very special people in the orthodox community and I enrolled in a girls yeshiva in Israel. Today I am a changed person. I owe it to a famous blogger who actually used his charm,looks and money to recruit reform Jews into orthodoxy. I wont give out his name but he is pretty well known in activist circles. I thought I would share my story.

[Abracadabra]

Dr Moe - There is NO SUCH THING as "The Orthodox Community As a WHOLE".

There are the specific communities, and within those communities there are Chassidish, Litvish, Yeshivish, etc.

You can not find ANY individual who is NOT a criminal who is respected by "The Orthodox Community as a WHOLE."

Aside from that, there are numerous examples of Orthodox criminals who are well respected and honored members of THEIR communities.

Nathan Rothschild is one of them. If you lived in that district of Monsey, you would know his name as it was on lawn posters all over time during election time, and he was written about in the local papers. He WON his seat on the school board by way of a democratic district community VOTE.

The Spinka Rebbe is another example. He was even asked to speak at a community forum in Boro Park which was organized to teach frum people how to conduct their businesses honestly. He is still a very respected member of the community, is a convicted felon, and is on his way to jail.

WAY TOO OFTEN these criminals come back to their communities and still get their honorable front-row seat in shul, along with all the other honors associated with that. Why? Because the government usually only catches them doing SOME fraud, but these guys were involved in the fraud for years and squirilled away millions. So they are often extremely wealthy, even AFTER they serve their time in jail. Money = Honor in the frum world - it's the bottom line.

[Abracadabra]

Dr Moe -

I think the name of the family whose kids were killed in that accident is "Pinter". They live on 48th Street in Boro Park between 16th & 17th Avenues. They had 3 kids killed in that crash - 2 girls (one in high school) and a boy.

Dr Moe - it seems like you dismiss whatever proof you don't like. With statements like "if that story is even true" and "1 down next please" and dismissing things because you "asked your orthodox friends" and they didn't hear of someone. I mean, give us all a break.

And about Rabbi Shimon Ben Lakish - please tell me you were kidding. He was an Amora in the Gemara or a Tanna in the Mishnah.

[Abracadabra]

Rivky -

This website is dedicated to highlighting the problems within Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Chareidi, Yeshivish, Chasidish), and focuses on those people or beliefs within Orthodoxy which cause the problems, perpetuate the problems, or ignore the problems which causes them to increase.

If you are disturbed by the problems then please discuss them with your rabbis, teachers, friends, relatives, and band people together to try to create change.

If you think there are no problems within Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, you might want to read more articles on this website.

If you're not interested in hearing that there are problems in Orthodox Judaism, you are welcome to stick your head in the sand. You'll have plenty of company there within most Orthodox communities.

[Abracadabra]

BTW - Speaking of crimes - I wonder if anyone ever tracked the number of suicides within Orthodox Judaism. The fact that it's an aveira and that a suicide is not allowed to be buried in a Jewish cemetary probably gets in the way of a family admitting to a death as a suicide.

My theory is the frum people (or frum from birth people) commit suicide more than non-frum people. Included is this is kids that go off the derech, get into drugs and overdose, have untreated mental disorders, were sexually abused, etc.

[Abracadabra]

Add this to the list of Orthodox killers:

There was a man in the Far Rockaway area who beat his wife continually. He went to jail at a certain point, came back, and continued to beat his wife. One day when he was beating her with a frying pan he hit her head too hard and killed her. The children witnessed it (as they always did).

Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz z'l of Far Rockaway was involved in the case.

[Abracadabra]

Did I beat Pessie Gelb in number of consecutive posts???

:D

[shimonhaber]

Thumbs up Dr Moe... you are soo right on that