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Title: Cops bust Jewish human kidney trafficking ring
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URL Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/a ... 2/02/crime.brazil.organs.reut/
Published: Jul 23, 2009
Author: CNN
Post Date: 2009-07-23 21:59:55 by Jethro Tull
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Comments: 7
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Police in Brazil said they had nabbed 11 people on Tuesday and broken up a ring which arranged for Brazilians to sell their organs in South Africa. In a statement, Federal Police said they had received an anonymous tip that an Israeli man was arranging for people in Recife, the capital of northeastern Pernambuco state, to sell kidneys through the gang. The candidates were given medical tests to make sure they were healthy before being sent to Durban in South Africa where a kidney was removed and sold, the statement said. Police found the going price for a kidney was about $10,000, although recent transactions had shown the organ was being sold for as little as $6,000. The statement did not give details about the arrests or say how many people had sold organs through the ring. Police in Recife declined further comment on the case.
Poster Comment: Federal prosecutors unveiled a mammoth corruption and money-laundering investigation in New Jersey today, arresting 44 people, including the mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus, and Ridgefield; two assemblymen; and five rabbis. Also some guy who's been selling human kidneys for ten years. Aside from reeling in greedy politicians, Dwek also set his sites on a vast money-laundering ring centered among New Jersey's Syrian Jewish community and run by delightfully named rabbis, who used their synagogues and affiliated charities to clean up dirty money. Dwek approached them and told them he was "involved in illegal businesses and bank frauds," according to the release, and "was in bankruptcy and was attempting to conceal cash and assets." So Rabbi Saul Kassin of Sharee Zion in Brooklyn, Rabbi Edmund Nahum of Deal Synagogue in Deal, N.J., Rabbi Eli Ben Haim of Congregation Ohel Yaacob in Deal, N.J., and Rabbi Mordchai Fish of Congregation Sheves Achim in Brooklyn all happily accomodated him, laundering more than $3 million over two years. They would take a check from Dwek, written to their synagogues or associated charities, and pay him back—less a 10 percent cut—in cash from Israel or Switzerland that they kept in a network of "cash houses" throughout Brooklyn. Dwek is an Orthodox Jew; it's unlikely he could have penetrated the ring otherwise. For a look at the Syrian Jewish community's xenophobic ways, check out this New York Time Magazine piece on the Brooklyn enclave, which excommunicates any member who marries outside of the tribe—including gentiles who convert to Judaism. Rabbi Kassin, who was arrested today, cut off his own daughter for marrying a non-Jew. After 25 years, she made contact with the family, and they told her she was welcome back, but without her husband and kids. Lastly—and it's not clear from the release how this relates to the money-laundering and corruption investigations—Dwek somehow hooked up with Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn man who offered to sell him a human kidney for $160,000. According to Talking Points Memo, which has been poring over the indictment, "Rosembaum explained the process of finding a donor in Israel and stated that "[t]here are people over there hunting . . . One of the reasons it's so expensive is because you have to shmear all the time." We think a good sun-dried tomato shmear goes nicely with a kidney.
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Organleggers!
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