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In New Jersey illegal operations may be slowed for a short time, in a state where money laundering, the selling of body parts and false Gucci purses has long ruled the business world. A recent FBI sting saw 44, mainly city officials arrested. This was the culmination of a ten-year long investigation.
Mayor of Hoboken, the three-weeks-
The head of the FBI's Newark office, Weysan Dun, said "The list of people we arrested sounds like it should be the roster from a meeting of community leaders. But sadly they weren't meeting in a boardroom this morning. They were in the FBI booking room".
The money-for-access scheme involved mayors receiving cash in diners, rabbis depositing untraceable money in charities, to Levy Izhak Rosenbaum selling body parts.
Rosenbaum admits he has been marketing illegal kidneys for 10 years. He would buy kidneys from vulnerable donors in Israel for $10,000 and sell them to American transplant recipients for $160,000. Rosenbaum told undercover agents, "I am what you call a matchmaker."
The sting started when a northern the son of a prominent rabbi in the Syrian community in Deal, N.J., and northern New Jersey real estate developer turned government witness, after being accused of defrauding a bank of $25 million. He was set free on a $10 million bail. He will receive credits for aiding the FBI with their investigation.
Over a three year period the witness, FBI trained undercover agent, made appointments with government officials, who received a total of $650,000 in bribes. Millions of dollars were laundered for the witness by the rabbis, through various charities. The money laundering connections reached from Deal to Brooklyn, Israel to Switzerland.
Residents of the country's most heavily populated state are have grown immune to repeated corruption scandals. “They don’t see any way out of it,” said a 30 year New Jersey voter.
Even though people knew an FBI investigation had been operating since 1999 and there have been 130 arrests and convictions, the corruption continued unabated. A lot of people were on the take from the corruption, so there were few prepared to voluntarily whistle blowers.
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