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money-laundering
Wife of Israeli celebrity rabbi attempts suicide as police question him
The wife of Israeli kabbalist Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto tried to commit suicide as her husband was being questioned by police.
Avigdor Lieberman told he might be indicted
Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has been told that he may soon be indicted on charges of fraud, money laundering and break of trust.\n
N.Y. rabbi pleads guilty to money laundering
A leader of New York\’s Syrian Jewish community pleaded guilty to laundering money through a religious charity. Rabbi Saul Kassin, 79, pleaded guilty as part of a plea bargain Monday in federal court. He faces up to $250,000 in fines and could face up to five years in prison, though prosecutors reportedly will not seek a prison sentence as part of the plea deal.
The Spinka money trail — and the informant who brought them down
On Dec. 19, 2007, the U.S. Attorney General\’s Office filed an indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California naming the Chasidic yeshiva and four other Spinka organizations, as well as eight people, in a multimillion dollar tax fraud and money-laundering ring that stretched from Brooklyn to Los Angeles to Israel and elsewhere.
Grand Rabbi pleads not guilty
On Dec. 19, Los Angeles authorities arrested six people, including Naftali Tzi Weisz, 59, the grand rabbi of Spinka, a Brooklyn-based Hasidic sect, on charges of creating a money-laundering scheme that worked through financial networks in Los Angeles and Israel.
Our Gang
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.