Solomon Dwek's Bail Revoked; Judge Says Dwek Is A Danger To Society

A federal judge this afternoon revoked the bail of Solomon Dwek, remanding him to custody in connection to his Baltimore arrest two weeks ago on charges that he kept a rental car out for weeks after he was supposed to return it.

 

Federal judge revokes Solomon Dwek's bail after Baltimore arrest
Terrence T. McDonald • The Jersey Journal

A federal judge this afternoon revoked the bail of Solomon Dwek, remanding him to custody in connection to his Baltimore arrest two weeks ago on charges that he kept a rental car out for weeks after he was supposed to return it.

Prosecutors had suggested Dwek be committed to house arrest, but Judge Jose L. Lineras said Dwek is a “danger to the community” who needs to be behind bars.

Dwek is “a consummate defrauder and an extremely cunning liar,” Lineras said today after revoking Dwek’s bail. “He has defrauded by his own admission many of the people he came in contact with.”

During Dwek’s bail hearing this afternoon, FBI Special Agent Sean McCarhty testified that he discovered there was a warrant out for Dwek’s arrest earlier this month when he was reviewing the criminal backgrounds of potential witnesses in the corruption trial of former Secaucus mayor Dennis Elwell.

When McCarthy asked Dwek about the report, Dwek lied, saying he hadn’t rented the car, according to the FBI agent. Dwek also submitted a false affidavit to the Hertz Corporation regarding the rental car, the agent said.

Dwek, the son of a Deal, NJ rabbi, was arrested in 2006 in connection to a $50 million bank fraud. His cooperation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in its Operation Bid Rig III investigation led to the July 2009 arrests of 46 public officials and politicians, including Elwell.

Comments

[moshe]

That piece of dwek belongs in jail!

[seymour]

I guess because he was a mosser and not because he was a thief

[Deremes]

Hooray! The POS remains in the slammer, where he cannot screw anyone other than fellow inmates.

[Leah]

"Judge Jose L. Lineras said Dwek is a “danger to the community” who needs to be behind bars."

It too them long enough to figure that one out! Kudos to Judge Lineras!

[jancsipista]

deremes- si pasteh nisht azoi tzi reden, screw another inmate, megsteh shemen

[ex-Shmunsey-ite]

Too bad Dwek isn't going to Butner. He would be a great shidduch for Bernie.

[effie]

Lame. It's not a violent crime and the fact that it was only two weeks makes it even more lame. I bet his bail gets reinstated.

[Deremes]

jancsipista,

I agree.
I just copied the exact words that another poster said yesterday on Rubashkin where he was denied bail. I wanted to see who will criticize my comment and who didn't criticize the same when said on SMR.

[jewland]

i nebach a heimishe yid is put in jail! i hope and pray to hashem that he gets out of jail as soon as possible and the reshaim who put him behind bars should have a mapolah

[lazy]

why are you all over this whistle blower?

[Loshonhora]

To any legal expert?
IF THEY KEEP POSTPONING HIS SENTANCE, DOES HE REMAIN BEHIND BARS FOR LIFE?

[Jake Mt]

As Elmer J. Fudd would say, "This Dwek belongs in jail".

[steve]

Dwek is a “danger to the community” who needs to be behind bars.

This judge can teach the Orthodox community how to apply the halachos of "rodef" and "mesira". Ditto for child molesters and other Ponzi schemers.

[BK]

Research shows that sociopaths don't change.

http://www.youmeworks.com/sociopaths.html

[WoolSilkCotton]

++Hooray! The POS remains in the slammer, where he cannot screw anyone other than fellow inmates.

Posted by: WoolSilkCotton | June 27, 2011 at 06:53 PM++

++Hooray! The POS remains in the slammer, where he cannot screw anyone other than fellow inmates.

Posted by: Deremes | June 28, 2011 at 02:20 PM++

Deremes, if you are copying my exact words, you are obligated to state right away that you are quoting me.

I stand by my quote from yesterday (at least the first part, that he is a POS who ought to remain in prison) and I would say the same for Dwek.

They are both sociopaths, and they both have served notice on society that they are unfit to live in freedom.
Those words are paraphrased from radio talk show host Bob Grant.

I apologize for the use of the sordid expression in the second part of my original statement. I try to keep it clean here, and I thank jancsipista for pointing out that I shouldn't have stooped to such wording.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Then again, POS is not such a nice expression either.

[Anti]

Down with the moser.

[phony messiah]

Starting a Pidyon Shvooyim fund for Dwek.
Who will be my first Donor?
Shmaryhu will be my gaabi zedakah.

[Loshonhora]

Starting a Pidyon Shvooyim fund for Dwek.
Who will be my first Donor?
Shmaryhu will be my gaabi zedakah.

Posted by: phony messiah | June 28, 2011 at 09:16 PM

He may pin the appeal to the top like Rottenbergs he looks at this guy as a hero, because he got chareidim in jail, on a justice system uses these crooks as CWs.
Look up the Butler story he was on the FBI & then joined the 10 most wanted list, he was picked up last week at age 81.

[Loshonhora]

Bugler not Butler.
This is who works for the FBI to get good people in jail, & criminals to roam the streets.
Dreck & :
http://abcnews.go.com/US/slideshow/fbis-10-wanted-fugitive-list-whitey-bulger-2369979

[Barry]

Imagine the following scenario. There have been a spate of break-ins into synagogues throughout Williamsburg and the rest of Brooklyn. Twenty sifrei torah have been stolen in the last six months. The police have nothing to go on. Then out of the blue, a lawyer calls the police and informs them that he is representing a man being held in New Jersey charged with dealing in stolen TVs and who is facing a 2 year prison sentence. The lawyer tells the Brooklyn police that he has information as to the whereabouts of the sifrei torah which he is willing to disclose if the government will not seek a prison sentence on a guilty plea in respect of the TVs. Loshon Hora, are you telling me that you would refuse to consider that offer. Criminals often have valuable information that they have obtained dishonestly which the police do not have. It may be distasteful but sometimes the government has little choice but to 'buy' that information from the criminals by giving the criminals something that they want like shorter prison sentences.

Dwek is no different. He is a fraudster and a criminal facing a substantial prison sentence. He does however have valuable information about his criminal associates that he was willing to 'sell' for a shorter prison sentence. No one imagines that he has shopped in the dishonest rabbonim out of civic duty or that his character has suddenly changed for the better. In fact it is to be expected that he will continue to act dishonestly in future. That does not mean that it was wrong for the government to agree pay 'the price' he demanded for cooperation in catching other criminals. The government will not deny that it held its nose while doing so

[Loshonhora]

Barry,
wrong for one they should pull in that lawyer & criminal & not let them go until they find the stolen items.
Two:Your case is different the thief had already committed a crime, in Dreck's case he was so cunning to be able to get a bank to cash a 25 million check,which was a piece of paper. He was able to get people with no criminal history to commit crimes, and got them slammed.
3: look at Bugler it didn't pay it cost a life time salary & 19 lives. That is what Dreck style criminal in collusion with FBI ends up costing.

[Barry]

Why pull in the lawyer? He does not know where the sifrei torah are hidden. As for the fence he is already facing a prison term. He will claim that he only knows about the whereabouts of the sifrei torah because someone offered them to him but he chose not to buy them so he did not commit any crime.

Let us say that despite your objections, the government agrees to the fence's proposals. The fence names the gang member who he has dealt with (and admits to having 10 sifrei torah in his possession which the police recover). The police raid that bank robbers home and recover 5 more sifrei torah. Under intense interrogation, the gang member names the other member of his the gang. The police however have no other evidence as to who the gang members are. The police have a dilemma. They can raid the other gang members homes in the hope of finding the sifrei torah and other corroborative evidence. However there is a risk that they will find no evidence as the sifrei torah may have been hidden in which case they will have no case against the other gang members because their informant is of bad character and the sifrei torah may never be recovered. The police will have little choice but to ask their gang informant to arrange a meeting (at which he will wear a wire) with the other gang members for the purpose of distributing the money he received for selling the first lot of sifrei torah to the fence and asking them to bring the remaining sifrei torah for him to sell on to the fence. The informant may agree to this deal if he gets a substantial reduction (say 50%) in his sentence.

The fact that the cooperating gang member serves a shorter sentence has nothing to do with him being of better character than the others. He just found himself in a position where he had information he could 'sell' to the police. Had the police had the same information from other sources, then they would not have being forced into making this uncomfortable deal.

Dwek is without doubt an immoral crook. However the people he informed on were also crooks. They were such good crooks that they had no criminal history. If the police could have got them without the need to offer Dwek a deal, I have no doubt that they would have jumped at the chance.

[Loshonhora]

Dwek is without doubt an immoral crook. However the people he informed on were also crooks. They were such good crooks that they had no criminal history. If the police could have got them without the need to offer Dwek a deal, I have no doubt that they would have jumped at the chance.

Posted by: Barry | June 29, 2011 at 09:20 AM
If they had a history I guarantee you it would have been investigated & proven,they had none, the only reason entrapment wasn't invoked was because legal scholars claim it is very hard to use, and once you use up that defense you have basically agreed to the crime. With the feds even an honest person is better off pleading guilty, many have walked free 10 & 20 years into their sentance after pleading guilty. Take those who pleded guilty on murder and after DNA came out, they were vindicated. If they wern't guilty why did they plead guilty?
We all know why.
With Dreck as the informer he could even trig a voice and wire, his eveidence is worthless, he is a scumbag, & there are many Buglers still in the FBI, diverting our tax money from real crime to phoney crime & making a big stink.
The entire Dreck facade was 4 million dollars & 44 defendants, less than 100K per head.
When I called the FBI about a ganev, years back, they told me the FBI doesn't have resources to get involved for less than 100K, I guess to catch politicians & Rabbis it changes.
Gimmee a break, heads at the FBI should roll for this facade, & the prisoners should all be freed, Dreck should sit until he is no danger to society any more.
I guess he isn't sitting yet, because he has some stuff about the FBI, they don't want him to sing.

[Shmarya]

If they had a history I guarantee you it would have been investigated & proven,they had none

Idiot.

All of the rabbis had laundered money before Dwek.

You can hear some of them on tape talking about it.

And your "guarantee" is idiotic to any familiar with how law enforcement works.

[Barry]

Loshonhora, Neither Robert T Ironside or Frank Columbo had any need to use informers to get their man. Unfortunately, they are now both gone and the NYPD need to resort to less savoury methods in catching the bad guys.

[Loshonhora]

All of the rabbis had laundered money before Dwek.

You can hear some of them on tape talking about it.

And your "guarantee" is idiotic to any familiar with how law enforcement works.

Posted by: Shmarya | June 29, 2011 at 10:51 AM

When did the 89 year old delunsional retired Rabbi suffering of dimentia ever break the law B$ Dreck?

[Shmarya]

He was not retired and does not have dementia – or at least did not at the time of his arrest.

[Loshonhora]

He was not retired and does not have dementia – or at least did not at the time of his arrest.

Posted by: Shmarya | June 29, 2011 at 11:38 AM
He is retired, check it out.I guess you agree he never broke the law B4 dreck, that was actually what I asked.

[Shmarya]

He was not retired at the time of his arrest and, yes, he laundered money before Dwek.

[Loshonhora]

He was not retired at the time of his arrest and, yes, he laundered money before Dwek.

Posted by: Shmarya | June 29, 2011 at 01:08 PM
Prove it

[Shmarya]

Idiot.'

Dwek wore a wire the transcript was given to the defense in discovery.

Do you think he would have pleaded guilty if the tapes showed him to be senile and to have never laundered money before?

[Alteh Mirrer]

There is no question that almost all of the defendants were guilty of something. But the reason people are up in arms is because usually, you let the little guy walk if he can help you snag the big fish. Here, they let Dwek walk away from a ponzi scheme in the hundreds of millions, to turn in a few hundred thousand in money laundering, and a couple hundred in bribes.

[Loshonhora]

Idiot.'

Dwek wore a wire the transcript was given to the defense in discovery.

Do you think he would have pleaded guilty if the tapes showed him to be senile and to have never laundered money before?

Posted by: Shmarya | June 29, 2011 at 03:19 PM

You ask do you think!
What have you done with the concept of innoceant until proven guilty. He pleded guilty on Dreck, and nothing else.
If there was anything else he would have been charged on it he wasn't.
Because he was Chareidi & a Rabbi not a black conservative Ger, he is guilty of anything you could think of, even if he wasn't charged nor pleaded guity of it.
This is how your outright biggoted hate comes out. I don't blame you can't help it, it has become part of you.
When everyone was claiming Anthony Weiner was guilty, of what he later admitted to plus more, you were crying innosant until proven guilty. Because he is your hero who married a Moslem , and supports gay marriage. However when the Rabbis were arrested you even B4 they were charged they were guilty in your book.
Now they pleaded guilty to what they were charged for, you claim without proof that they are guilty of crimes they wern't charged for & never pleaded guilty for, with a YOU THINK reason.
For my challange you call me an idiot.
You claim not to be a biggot, it seems that against Chareidim in you mind it isn't biggotry, no matter how much we prove it. There was someone about 70 years ago who claimed all Jews were subhumans so he too thought he wasn't a biggot.
I think if you are so worried about gay rights [even against the Torah, & aginst morals & laws of the universe from early history until last century], so worried about the Falasha discrimination it may be time to look in the mirror & stop discriminating against chareidim, & Chabad people.
You can't be a biggot when you choose & call out others for being a biggots when they choose. Why don't you just admit that you are a biggot, against certain groups , and not others.

[Shmarya]

I'm not a bigot by any means. But I suffer fools poorly. And you are fool.

[Loshonhora]

I'm not a bigot by any means. But I suffer fools poorly. And you are fool.

Posted by: Shmarya | June 29, 2011 at 09:23 PM
Explain how you are not one please. Two generations ago someone called Jews subhumans so he claimed not to be abiggot,because are not humans, you seem to do the same to Chareidim & more so to Chabadniks who were born into that religeon.
I have learned when you know you wrong, but won't admit it you shoot: fool, idiot, please,& take your meds, because you were busted, and have no answer have no answer.
Have you ever admitted that you made a mistake in your life? Ever?
Have you ever agreed to disagree?

[Shmarya]

First of all, your Hitler comparison is disgusting. It says a lot more about your problems and your mental state than it ever could about me.

Past that, I rarely get involved in comments here unless I'm very sure a commenter is lying or is grossly mistaken. And I'm most always right.

And that's really the issue.

It isn't how many times I've admitted I'm wrong – it's how many times I was wrong.

In this particular case, you have no idea how law enforcement works, or how the feds charge criminals – and it shows.

For example, the feds have hard, conclusive evidence of crimes committed by Sholom Rubashkin that have not been charged.

Why?

Because the feds have no expectation of charging them because they have no need to. He's already serving a very long prison sentence.

The feds regularly act this way because it is a waste of time, money and resources – i.e., our money as taxpayers and our welfare as citizens – to act differently.

Does that mean Rubashkin did not commit those other crimes?

Of course not.

As for your "innocent until proven guilty" assertion, in halakha – a subject you know strikingly little about – one does not need a guilty verdict to make an assessment of a person's guilt or innocence and act on it.

All you need is raglayim l'davar.

[Loshonhora]

First you have yet to answer how you are not a biggot against chareidim.
2) I specially didn't use his name, although I used his example, that was only because many complained about Markfromshorthills who compares everyone & everything to Nazis, & you say &
do nothing about it.
3) This is not Rubashkin, & non of them got massive sentance. Even in Rubashkin's case the origiinal charges were many more, & not in Kassins case, I also read the PDF.
4) If the FBI had other cases other than the sting they definatly would have included at least a few of them in the original charge. They diddn't. Your proof is your own word & your own word only , & only because he is Chareidi & a Rabbi.
5) Raglayim ledovor does not apply here, at most it applies to get someone out of paying a kesuvah or a debt or damages, never does it work to make a guy guilty & definatly not in court,[arkoos] & no heiter loshon horah is given on raglayim ledovor.
We could go on for ever, but could you prove that you are not biggoted against chareidim.
Godol sinas am hooretztz letalmid chochom yoiser misinas akum al habriyos.
An Am hooretz hates Talmidei chachomim worse than gentiles hate Jews. Rabbi Galinsky once said that proves the chilonim think all chareidim are talmidei chachomim.I think that applies to you too.

[Baltimoron]

If you're a frum criminal in the US, it seems that the best hiding place for you is Baltimore. There's so many sexual predators that move there and are protected by rav Yaakov Hopfer.