N.J. officials, N.Y. rabbis caught in federal money laundering, corruption sweep

[Furtherman]

http://blog.nj.com/editorspicks_impact/2009/07/large_Peter_Cammarano.JPG

22 days in office.

I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this establishment!

N.J. officials, N.Y. rabbis caught in federal money laundering, corruption sweep (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/nj_officials_ny_rabbis_caught.html)

NEWARK -- A New Jersey assemblyman and the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus were among public officials arrested this morning by FBI agents in an international money laundering and corruption probe that includes rabbis in the Syrian Jewish communities of Deal and Brooklyn.

Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt (R-Ocean), Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, Secaucus Mayor Denis Elwell and Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega are among those who have been already been brought to the FBI building in Newark. Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini has also been arrested. A total of 30 people have been taken into custody, officials said.

The arrests are the result of a two year probe that began with an investigation of money transfers by members of the Syrian enclaves in Deal and Brooklyn. Those arrested this morning include key religious leaders in the tight-night, wealthy communities

I knew this guy was trouble, coming up under the old Hoboken administration which was tainted as well.

This will be vindication for the woman who ran against him, Dawn Zimmer, and lost only by a slight margin. It shows that half the town was smart and looking for change.

[Dude!]

the jews are always up to something!

[Judge Smails]

I know Denis Elwell personally. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

[Misteriosa]

i saw this pop up on the TV this morning as the breaking news. i loffed and loffed!

best part was seeing the old jewish guy with the long fuzzy beard do the perp walk into the station. hahaha! my mom said "that little hat isnt gonna save him now"

[ANC]

my mom said "that little hat isnt gonna save him now"

You tell your mom she made me chuckle and choke on my english muffin. :lol:

[Misteriosa]

You tell your mom she made me chuckle and choke on my english muffin. :lol:

yeah my mom's a trip. where do you think i get part of my sense of humor from...

[Gvac]

Corruption in New Jersey politics?

Who ever heard of such a thing???

It's the one thing I won't miss about this state.

[Judge Smails]

I just called my dad, who still lives in Secaucus, to make sure he had the tv on (live coverage on WWOR channel 9).

My dad says: "Good. That's what he fuckin' gets for not doing anything about people letting their dogs shit on my lawn."

So, let this be a lesson to all of you. Don't cross the Smails' or bad things will happen to you.

[Dude!]

I just called my dad, who still lives in Secaucus, to make sure he had the tv on (live coverage on WWOR channel 9).

My dad says: "Good. That's what he fuckin' gets for not doing anything about people letting their dogs shit on my lawn."

your dad has a potty mouth

[Misteriosa]

(live coverage on WWOR channel 9).

wow... you took me back in time...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/WORLogo83.jpg

[Judge Smails]

wow... you took me back in time...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/WORLogo83.jpg

That's Secaucus, New Jersey for a while now.

http://nynw.net/images/WWOR_NewJersey.png

[Meataball23]

i saw this pop up on the TV this morning as the breaking news. i loffed and loffed!

best part was seeing the old jewish guy with the long fuzzy beard do the perp walk into the station. hahaha! my mom said "that little hat isnt gonna save him now"

:lol::clap:

Wheres your God now?!

[Earlshog]

http://blog.nj.com/editorspicks_impact/2009/07/large_Peter_Cammarano.JPG

22 days in office.

I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in this establishment!

N.J. officials, N.Y. rabbis caught in federal money laundering, corruption sweep (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/nj_officials_ny_rabbis_caught.html)





I knew this guy was trouble, coming up under the old Hoboken administration which was tainted as well.

This will be vindication for the woman who ran against him, Dawn Zimmer, and lost only by a slight margin. It shows that half the town was smart and looking for change.

We were at the St Anns fair last night and guess who served us our beers Cammarano....

Rocking the same gear he wore for his perp walk!

I know it was a Fed raid but it will be interesting how this effects the race for Governor in NJ


You are 100% right about Zimmer

[Furtherman]

We were at the St Anns fair last night and guess who served us our beers Cammarano....

Rocking the same gear he wore for his perp walk!

I know it was a Fed raid but it will be interesting how this effects the race for Governor in NJ


You are 100% right about Zimmer


HAHA!!! That's great! I'm so glad I know that. I voted for Zimmer because she didn't have all the old ties to the neighborhood. She's a nice, smart woman who can certainly help Hoboken even more now.

But the "old ties" run deep. The Hoboken School Board has about 100 members - and close to 70 of them are related to each other!!

[TheMojoPin]

It's the one thing I won't miss about this state.

Yeah, because local corruption down South NEVER happens.

[Zorro]

That's Secaucus, New Jersey for a while now.

http://nynw.net/images/WWOR_NewJersey.png

Since Bill Bradley made them move

[sailor]

Yeah, because local corruption down South NEVER happens.

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mfl/lowres/mfln130l.jpg

[TheMojoPin]

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mfl/lowres/mfln130l.jpg

I'm not judging as if there's somewhere free of corruption, you ridiculous mongoloid. I'm laughing at the idea of someone thinking they can escape it.

[sailor]

I'm not judging as if there's somewhere free of corruption, you ridiculous mongoloid. I'm laughing at the idea of someone thinking they can escape it.

nice dodge.

[strawberrypop]

I'm not judging as if there's somewhere free of corruption, you ridiculous mongoloid. I'm laughing at the idea of someone thinking they can escape it.

That's a personal attack! Ban him, mikey!

[TheMojoPin]

You're not going to dodge this table leg I'm swinging at your awful, awful face.

[Misteriosa]

no... i cant believe this...

Wanna buy a human kidney? If so, you should have been talking to Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn, NY. He's been charged with conspiring to broker a kidney as part of a crackdown on "a corrupt network of public officials who were all too willing to take cash in exchange for promised official action," according to the New Jersey AG's office. Yes, you're reading this correctly. It's just really weird.

Reuters says:
Rabbis accused of money-laundering were Eliahu Ben Haim, the principal rabbi of a synagogue in Deal; Saul Kassin, chief rabbi of a synagogue in Brooklyn; Edmund Nahum, the principal rabbi of another synagogue in Deal; and Mordchai Fish, a rabbi at a synagogue in Brooklyn.

Most of the defendants were arrested early on Thursday by federal agents.

One of the many criminal complaints filed in the case also accused a Brooklyn man, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant, at a cost of $160,000 to the transplant recipient.



This guy claims to have been selling kidneys for 10 years. Yikes.

http://consumerist.com/5321349/rabbis-new-jersey-mayors-arrested-in-money-laundering-kidney-selling-scandal

[spoon]

Come on people, Brooklyn is the kidney capitol of the world. Oh and has anyone ever driven through Deal? It's just a little on the rich side, now we know how that came to be.

As for corruption in NJ, especially in Hoboken and JC, ha! That's not even news.

[Misteriosa]

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[boosterp]

Wow, this just gets more interesting.

[spoon]

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I personally love the comment on why these guys were so against changing the system, and it can be used throughout this country in politics and business.

[DarkHippie]

no... i cant believe this...



http://consumerist.com/5321349/rabbis-new-jersey-mayors-arrested-in-money-laundering-kidney-selling-scandal

Psst . . . I can get you that kidney wholesale . . .

[spoon]

Psst . . . I can get you that kidney wholesale . . .

I prefer wiggle kidneys.

[Furtherman]

Mordchai Fish

Starvin'!!!

[Earlshog]

no... i cant believe this...



http://consumerist.com/5321349/rabbis-new-jersey-mayors-arrested-in-money-laundering-kidney-selling-scandal

160 large... shit I got two of them... sign me up!

[dino_electropolis]

Hmmmm....a 32 y/o with the name Peter Cammarano III becomes the Mayor of the city of Sinatra's birthplace and then embroiled in corruption?

http://talentedapps.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kijinnmaru-inconceivable.jpg

[Melrapuo]

I live in Secaucus, and I'm not surprised either. Elwell is a really nice guy, but I'm not at all shocked that some form of corruption has occurred here. Damn, he threw awesome campaign parties, too. : /

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini has also been arrested.

Before I even read the article I knew, I KNEW a JC politician HAD to be involved. I'm surprised Mayor Healy wasn't involved. Ehh, he gets bribed with open bar tabs.

Maybe we should get that councilman (or whatever he is) to pee on more dead heads until all this blows over.

I am so ashamed to say I live in Jersey City. Jersey City is like that drunk uncle no one really wants to talk about.

Edit: Mayor Healy may be involved (http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2009/07/23/is-mayor-healy-jersey-city-official-4/) after all.

[Recyclerz]

I'm not getting how the money laundering, kidney selling, "Jewish" thing is connected to the NJ pols getting bribed for the usual kinds of stuff.

I'm pretty sure everybody they arrested was up to something, but I get the feeling the Feds are running a bit as well.

[Earlshog]

I'm not getting how the money laundering, kidney selling, "Jewish" thing is connected to the NJ pols getting bribed for the usual kinds of stuff.

I'm pretty sure everybody they arrested was up to something, but I get the feeling the Feds are running a bit as well.

It was the Feds informant (Solomon Dwek) who tied it all together. You gotta figure much more will be learned as the story unfolds. Some of these guys are gonna sell their mother out to avoid jailtime.

[Furtherman]

Some of these guys are gonna sell their mother out to avoid jailtime.

Oh yea, the dominoes will fall.

[Earlshog]

Oh yea, the dominoes will fall.

check out this dickbag serving beers hours before his arrest

http://hoboken411.com/

[Misteriosa]

check out this dickbag serving beers hours before his arrest

http://hoboken411.com/

damn.. no good:

The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
•The website is under maintenance.

[A.J.]

Ahhhhhh!

http://hoboken411.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/cammarano-zimmer.jpg

[Furtherman]

Oh yea, the dominoes will fall.

And here..... we...... GO......

A veteran Hudson County political consultant charged last week in a sweeping corruption sting was found dead today in his Jersey City home.

Shaw's death came on the same day Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, one of six elected officials arrested in the sting, resigned his post.

Cammarano and Suarez, both Democrats, have resisted demands to resign. But fallout from the arrests has had an impact on those around Cammarano. A member of his transition team resigned last week. Today, his chief of staff, Joseph Garcia, quit his $125,000 a year post.

Officials investigate death of Hudson County political consultant charged in corruption sting (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/officials_investigate_death_of.html)

[Zorro]

And here..... we...... GO......







Officials investigate death of Hudson County political consultant charged in corruption sting (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/officials_investigate_death_of.html)

Oy!

[Earlshog]

Furtherman is going to be crushed...

Corzine: Hoboken Mayor To Resign Amid Probe

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/hoboken.mayor.resigns.2.1108122.html

[Earlshog]

Dawn Zimmer Sworn In as Hoboken's Acting Mayor

http://www.1010wins.com/Hoboken-s-Mayor-----For-Now/4914319

[Furtherman]

Former Hoboken Mayor Pleads Guilty in Corruption Bust (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36667567/ns/local_news-new_york_ny/)

Former Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit extortion in connection with a massive corruption scandal in New Jersey last year.

Cammarano, 32, had been charged with taking $25,000 in bribes from a developer. He pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion to try and get contributions for his "future influence in Hoboken government."

According to federal officials, when a government witness offered Cammarano thousands of dollars to push through a fictitious high-rise development plan, the new mayor allegedly said, "Great --and we're going to be friends for a long time."

See ya!