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A reputed gangster who calls himself "a simple Jew from Kiev" has emerged as the central suspect in an international bank-fraud probe that investigators term the biggest money-laundering case in history. The case involves an apparent scheme by Russian mobsters to launder billions of dollars in criminal proceeds through one of America's oldest and most respected banks, the Bank of New York. The FBI's yearlong investigation into the scheme was disclosed by the New York Times in a series of articles in late August. Beyond the Times' disclosures lies a far more complex story, reported piecemeal in a variety of publications here and abroad. Together they tell a hair-raising tale of international crime and intrigue by reputed crime boss Semyon Mogilevich and his so-called "Red Mafia." Mogilevich's mob is said to be the largest and most dangerous criminal organization to emerge from the breakup of the Soviet Union; it's engaged in arms dealing, drug smuggling, prostitution, contract murders and international art theft. The gang has been described as resembling traditional Italian mafia groups in its hierarchy, brutality and reliance on family and ethnic ties. Most of its members are Jewish. The money-laundering and related allegations, though, lift Mogilevich to a level of sophistication and influence rare in organized crime. They also hint at the magnitude of threat posed by Russian organized crime, both to Russia and the world at large. Britain, in particular, has been investigating Mogilevich's group for more than four years, seeking to unravel a worldwide network of shell companies implicated in money-laundering, contraband sales, stock manipulation and investor fraud. It was Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service that tipped off the FBI last year to Mogilevich's apparent relationship with the Bank of New York. Switzerland is also investigating the gang, on suspicion that it helped launder millions of dollars through Swiss banks for Russian government officials. Those cash movements began just before the August 1998 ruble devaluation that led to Russian financial chaos. Some say Kremlin officials traded on their inside knowledge of policy plans, bleeding the country. Part of the laundered money -- at least $200 million, by some accounts -- may have come from International Monetary Fund aid. The IMF is now facing criticism in Washington for sloppy oversight. That, in turn, could hurt the presidential hopes of Vice President Al Gore, a key architect of the IMF's Russia policies. The GOP-led House Banking Committee is holding hearings on the allegations later this month. Others whose names have surfaced in the mushrooming probe include several so-called "oligarchs," the business tycoons, many of them Jewish, who control much of post-communist Russia's privatized industry. Those mentioned include Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a leading banker and oil executive; Boris Berezovsky, formerly a ranking Yeltsin aide; and Vladimir Goussinsky, president of the Russian Jewish Congress. All three headed Russian banks that have been implicated in the Mogilevich investigations. Another "oligarch" implicated is Konstantin Kagalovsky, a close ally of Khodorkovsky. His wife, Natasha Gurfinkel, headed Bank of New York's East Europe operations until she was suspended last month. Nobody has formally been accused of any wrongdoing. Russian Jewry experts fear the allegations may help fuel Russia's already rampant anti-Semitism, by seeming to confirm extremist myths about Jewish "rape" of Mother Russia. All told, Mogilevich's mob may have looted as much as $15 billion from the Russian economy in the last few years. "It can't help but have an impact," said Isabella Ginor, a leading Israeli analyst of post-Soviet affairs. Semyon Yukovich Mogilevich, 53, was born in Kiev and graduated from the University of Lvov with a degree in economics. An Israeli citizen since the early 1990s, he currently operates from Hungary, where he is married to a local woman. He has been known to law enforcement authorities for decades, and is a familiar figure in the Russian media. In the West, though, he was virtually unknown until May 1998, when he was profiled in a lengthy article in the Village Voice by investigative reporter Robert Friedman. Friedman went into hiding shortly afterward, at the urging of the FBI, which told him Mogilevich had taken out a $100,000 contract on his life. He is currently writing a book about Russian organized crime. As described by Friedman, Mogilevich first became involved in petty crime in Moscow in the 1970s. He made millions in the 1980s by bilking Jews leaving for Israel, promising to sell their valuables for them after they left, then pocketing the proceeds. He spent the 1990s allegedly building his Red Mafia from his new base in Budapest, sending lieutenants to acquire legitimate companies in England, Canada, Australia, the United States, the Caribbean and elsewhere, then using them as covers for his illegal activities. Activities cited by Friedman include a sale of $20 million in stolen East Bloc weaponry to Iran, the theft and resale of Torah scrolls, a scheme to dump American toxic waste in Chernobyl -- in cooperation with the Genovese crime family -- and a phony antique restoration shop that took in Russian art treasures and sent fakes back to the owners, while the originals were secretly sold at Sotheby's in London. Britain appears to have been a favorite base for Mogilevich's financial schemes. In 1995, British authorities shut down a firm he had created there to launder funds from his worldwide criminal activities. In 1997, authorities began investigating a far more complex scheme, in which he acquired a Hungarian magnet factory, incorporated it in Philadelphia, then took it public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1994. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stock was sold, yet few magnets were produced. Federal authorities, tipped by Britain, shut the firm down for securities fraud last spring. The magnet probe led British investigators to Benex, a London-based firm allegedly controlled by Mogilevich. It was set up in March 1998 for the sole apparent purpose of transferring funds out of Russia. Benex's only officer, reputed Mogilevich lieutenant Peter Berlin, is married to Lucy Edwards, the Bank of New York officer who was fired last week for her apparent role in the money-laundering scheme. Edwards, born Ludmilla Pritzker in Leningrad, has declined to comment so far. Berlin has disappeared, and knowledgeable observers suggest he may turn up floating in the Thames. As for Mogilevich, he granted an interview to a Moscow newspaper this week and insisted that the only money he ever laundered was $5 left in a shirt on wash day. The whole affair, he claimed, is "the raving of the FBI." J.J. Goldberg writes a weekly column for The Jewish Journal.

To Violently Extort

Rabbi Martin "Mordechai" Wolmark, 56, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce to commit extortion as part of the Rabbi Mendel Epstein ring. The USDOJ press release: Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Admits Conspiring To Travel To New Jersey To Violently Extort Divorce Consent From Reluctant Husband TRENTON, NJ - An Orthodox Jewish rabbi today admitted conspiring to travel to New Jersey to coerce a Jewish man to give his wife a religious divorce – referred to as a “get” – through threats of violence, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.Martin Wolmark, 56, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce to commit extortion. According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court: On Aug. 7, 2013, Wolmark, an ordained Orthodox Jewish rabbi, spoke with a woman and her brother about obtaining a Jewish divorce from the woman’s recalcitrant husband. A get is a divorce document which, according to Jewish Law, must be presented by a husband to his wife to effect their divorce. Unbeknownst to Wolmark, the woman and the brother were actually undercover FBI agents. During the conversation, which was recorded by law enforcement, Wolmark informed the agents that there were two ways to go about obtaining a get from such a recalcitrant husband, one of which was to “nail him.” Wolmark also told the agents that coercing the husband into giving a get could be expensive. He then recommended that the agents speak with his colleague, Mendel Epstein, who he knew had previously used violence to coerce recalcitrant husbands into giving gets to their wives. Wolmark then initiated a conference call with the agents and Mendel Epstein. On Aug. 14, 2013, the agents met with Mendel Epstein at his home to discuss the case further. On Oct. 2, 2013, Wolmark convened a rabbinical court (a “beth din”) with Mendel Epstein and Jay Goldstein in his office in Suffern, New York. The purpose of this proceeding was to determine whether there were grounds under Jewish law to coerce the husband into giving the get. The female agent also attended and recorded the meeting. During this meeting, Mendel Epstein discussed openly the plan to kidnap and assault the purported husband in order to obtain the get. On Oct. 9, 2013, a group of Wolmark’s conspirators – including Jay Goldstein, Moshe Goldstein, Avrohom Goldstein, Simcha Bulmash, Ariel Potash, Binyamin Stimler, and Sholom Shuchat – traveled from New York to a warehouse in Edison, New Jersey, with the intent of forcing the purported husband to give his wife a get by means of violence and threats of violence. Six of these coconspirators previously pleaded guilty to traveling to New Jersey to commit extortion. The conspiracy count to which Wolmark pleaded guilty carries a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense. Sentencing is scheduled for May 18, 2015. U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Aaron T. Ford in Newark, for the investigation leading to today’s guilty plea. The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys R. Joseph Gribko and Sarah Wolfe of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Trenton. The pending charges and allegations against related defendants are merely allegations, and they are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty. Related Posts: All Rabbi Martin "Mordechai" Wolmark Posts. All Rabbi Mendel Epstein Get Extortion Posts.

Forfeit Jewish Charity's Assets

Forfeit Jewish Charity's Assets Feds Move To Forfeit Jewish Charity's Assets Linked To Dwek Money Laundering Solomon DwekAny property used to facilitate a crime -- including clean money used to disguise dirty money and businesses that are fronts for money laundering operations – is subject to outright forfeiture. Feds battle charity over $500,000 linked to corruption probe TED SHERMAN • NJ STAR-LEDGER A charitable fund that surfaced in a massive federal money laundering and corruption sting, which led to the arrests of dozens of elected and religious officials and others last summer, is now trying to recover more than half a million dollars seized by the FBI. But federal authorities are seeking permanent forfeiture of the money used -- they say -- to help fuel a long-running scheme. The fund, Gmach Shefa Chaim, was one of several charities the government said figured in the lengthy criminal investigation.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the charitable fund was used to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks into cash at the behest of Solomon Dwek, who had agreed to work as an undercover informant for the FBI after being charged in a $50 million bank fraud. It all began, say the criminal complaints filed in the case, in the Union City office of Moshe Altman, a real estate developer from Monsey, N.Y., where Dwek talked of trying to take money out of his bankrupt holdings. "Question is, if I bring in money, how many of these guys can convert it?" he asked Altman, according to transcripts of surveillance tapes attached to the criminal complaints. During that March 2007 meeting, recorded by Dwek in Altman's Union City office, Shimon Haber -- another developer who had worked with Dwek in the past -- said to talk to Altman. "He has washing machines," he said, according to the transcript. The washing machines, say federal authorities in their filings, referred to Gmach Shefa Chaim, a free-loan society that served the Hasidic Jewish community. Within hours after Haber and Altman were arrested with more than 40 others last July, the FBI moved to seize the organization's bank account as well. Some six months later, the organization says it wants the money back, arguing that the $508,985 taken by the agents was improperly seized. Attorney David Liston of Hughes Hubbard and Reed, who is representing the gmach, said Altman did not run the organization and did not have control over it. "I don't know what the basis was for seizing the money," he said. "There is nothing in those complaints to suggest the gmach was knowingly involved or intentionally involved in the acts alleged by the government." In the complaint, Altman is quoted as assuring Dwek that he would conceal the transaction "from anyone at the organizational front and all others." But the U.S. Attorney's Office maintains in its filing that the society was used by Altman as a mechanism to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars over a two-year period. "Altman's "washing machines' were accounts held by the Gmach," stated Assistant U.S. Attorney Bradley Harsch in a recent filing on the case in federal court. He declined comment on the matter. In his response brief, he said when Dwek wanted to launder checks from his business, Altman told him to write out "sizable checks" to Gmach Shefa Chaim. It says Dwek's checks would subsequently be returned to him in cash, less a 15 percent fee for the transaction. According to Harsch's brief, of 15 alleged money laundering transactions that Altman handled for Dwek, 10 went through the gmach fund, totalling $357,500. The remainder, he said, were made out to what he called "other purported charities." Some of the checks were drawn on the account of BH Property Management, which the government revealed to be an FBI undercover company, according to the criminal complaints. When Altman's office in Union City was searched on July 23 after the arrests, the brief said FBI agents seized approximately eight bundles of blank checks from Gmach Shefa Chaim accounts, as well as four hard drives and a laptop computer that officials said contained the organization's books and records. Harsch said attorneys for the gmach have made no attempt "to explain or defend the use of its accounts." At the same time, he said in his brief to the court that any property used to facilitate a crime -- including "clean" money used to disguise dirty money and "businesses that are fronts for money laundering operations" is subject to outright forfeiture. Liston said the gmach is an entity that values its privacy for religious reasons, providing help to those in need, and doing so anonymously.

ответ на вопрос - зачем домовладелец приводит в упадок дом, дома и прочие владения

ответ на вопрос - зачем домовладелец приводит в упадок дом, дома и прочие владения

Недавно произошло убийство одного из зловредных домовладельцев бруклиновских "домов презрения". 
Как иначе назвать дома где происходят душераздирающие драммы, как на пример в моей истории. 
Где "разводят" на деньги без всяких церемоний. Как в средние века, грабят среди бела дня зная что Амриканский принцип затяжной бюрократии и судов не могут повлиять на быстрый бизнесс преступных афер. 
Да, факт есть факт: CRIME PAYS.