Two figures in the sweeping 2009 federal money laundering and public corruption bust had additional money-laundering charges added today, under a 14-count indictment handed up in Newark.
Rabbi Lavel Schwartz, 59, and David S. Goldhirsh, 29, both of Brooklyn, were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering tied to their dealings in 2008 and 2009 with the now-infamous FBI informant and real-estate developer Solomon Dwek.
The two men were indicted on a money-laundering conspiracy count and 12 counts of attempted money laundering based on their Dwek dealings. Schwartz is charged in 10 of those 12 counts, Goldhirsh three.
According to federal authorities and the indictment, Schwartz and his brother, Rabbi Mordchai Fish, agreed to launder money for Dwek that they believed he got from illegal activities such as bank fraud, selling of counterfeit merchandise and bankruptcy fraud. After Dwek gave them bank checks ranging from $25,000 to $100,000, they’d give him cash back, minus a 10 percent or so cut for themselves, federal authorities said.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/prosecutors_add_money-launderi.html
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