“I don’t need a Gmach. I can do a check straight. It don’t show anywhere. It’s an offshore management thing…"
Co-conspirator identified as "I.M." based in Israel.
JWB's list of Orthodox Jewish community members charged, compiled from the indictments:
1) Rabbi Eliahu Ben Haim, of Long Branch, N.J., the principal rabbi of a synagogue in Deal, N.J., charged with money laundering of proceeds derived from criminal activity
2) Rabbi Saul Kassin, of Brooklyn, N.Y., the chief rabbi of a synagogue in Brooklyn, New York, charged with money laundering of proceeds derived from criminal activity.
3) Rabbi Edmund Nahum, of Deal, N.J., the principal rabbi of a synagogue in Deal, charged with money laundering of proceeds derived from criminal activity.
4) Rabbi Mordchai Fish, of Brooklyn, N.Y., a rabbi at a synagogue in Brooklyn, charged with money laundering of proceeds derived from criminal activity. His brother, also a rabbi, was charged as well.
5) Rabbi Lavel Schwartz (Fish's brother)
6) Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant
7) Levi Deutsch, an Israeli living in Israel.
8) Moshe "Michael" Altman, a Hudson County real estate developer.
9) Charles "Shaul" Amon, previously worked for the cooperating witness managing properties in Lakewood. Amon aided in the Lakewood payoff scheme by introducing Williamson to the cooperating witness. Amon described how he had previously made payoffs to Williamson to go light on housing inspections.
10) Arye Weiss - operated cash house from his residence in Brooklyn for Haim money laundering transactions; charged with supplying $300,000 in cash.
11) Yeshayahu Ehrental- operated cash house from his office in Brooklyn for Haim money laundering transactions; charged with supplying $300,000 in cash.
12) Schmulik Cohen - operated cash house from his residence in Brooklyn for Haim money laundering transactions; charged with supplying $850,000 in cash.
13) Binyomin Spira - operated a cash house from a bakery in Brooklyn in which he received cash from Levi Deutsch and supplied cash for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with supplying $200,000 in cash
14) Yolie Gertner - acted as a cash courier for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with moving $185,000 in cash
15) David Goldhirsh - acted as a cash courier for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with moving $100,000 in cash
16) Abe Pollack - operated cash house from his office in Brooklyn (which he shared with Naftoly Weber) for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with supplying $125,000 in cash
17) Naftoly Weber - operated cash house from his office in Brooklyn (which he shared with Abe Pollack) for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with supplying $125,000 in cash.
18) Shimon Haber
19) Itzak Friedlander
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