Jewish Fraudsters
1. Benjamin Berger
2. Jacob Elbaum
3. Kalman Stern
4. David Goldstein:
These four men were convicted in 1999 of "bilking the US of tens of millions
of dollars of bogus programs." They were convicted on "21 charges,
including conspiracy, mail fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering."
They are members of the Hassidic (Skverer branch) enclave of about 7,000 people
called New Square in Rockland County, New York. Berger was the chairman of
the Toldos Yakov Yosef seminary in Brooklyn. The seminary did not exist; it
was a fraud. As the New York Times noted:
"The academy existed only in documents that formed the centerpiece of
an elaborate web of fraud stretching back nearly 20 years: to swindle several
government agencies out of several million dollars and to use taxpayers' money
for the benefit of seven men and New Square, their religiously exclusive enclave
33 miles from Manhattan ... Critics said [that Clinton's pardon of the four
men] was politically motivated to benefit Senator Hillary Rodman Clinton,
who had courted support in the Hassidic community."
And as the New York Daily News observed:
"The New Square case has helped create
a dark
cloud over the start of Hillary Rodman Clinton's
career by creating suspicion that
clemency was
given in exchange for New Square's backing her
[New York senatorial] candidacy.
The village voted,
1,140 to 12, for her on Election Day ... In 1992,
New Square
voted 822 for President George Bush
and 93 for Bill Clinton, only to flip in 1996 and
support
President Clinton over Bob Dole, 1,110 to 31. After
backing Democratic Governor
Mario Cuomo over
GOP challenger George Patakis, 907 to 63, in 1994,
New Square
switched sides in 1998 and backed
Governor Pataki over Democrat Peter Vallone,
1,132
to 8."
Ms. Clinton had had personal meetings with New
Square leaders (and even visited the community) who lobbied her on behalf
of the four convicted Hassidic men.
[HENRY, MAUREEN. FRAUD SUSPECTS FACES EXTRADITION TO US. JERUSALEM POST,
2-21-1999, p. 3] [ARCHIBOLD, RANDAL C. 4 WHO GOT LENIENCY DEFRAUDED U.S. FOR
RELIGION, NEW YORK TIMES, 1-26-2001, Sec. B., p. 1] [COHLER-ESSES, LARRY AND
SIEGEL, JOEL. THE WOOING OF HILLARY CLINTON PARDON ON MIND OF NEW SQUARE RABBIS.
DAILY NEWS (NEW YORK), 2-12-2001]
The Democratic Party chairman of Rockland County, New York, where the New
Square community is located, was Jewish real estate mogul Paul Adler. Adler"a
key bridge builder to the Rockland County Jewish community" and "key
Hillary [Clinton] adviser," was involved in Ms. Clinton's visit to the
New Square community when she sought Hasidic support. Adler was subsequently
arrested in September of 2000 "on corruption charges," including
charges of "public corruption, fraud, extortion and other charges linked
to his real estate transactions." [FORWARD, 9-15-2000, p. 15]
On April 13, 2001, the Forward, a Jewish ethnic
newspaper, noted another angle, with another character, in the New Square
pardons:
"Caught in a firestorm of negative
publicity sparked
by a federal fraud case and its connection
to 'Pardongate,' leaders of the
chasidic village
of New Square turned to Rabbi Mayer Schiller
for damage control ... A beloved
teacher at Yeshiva
University High School for Boys -- a Modern Orthodox,
not chasidic insitution
-- Rabbi Schiller also spent years
writing and preaching in defense of European
culture,
group identity and, most controversial, racial separation ...
Several of Rabbi
Schiller's former students and rabbinical
colleagues said they oppose his separatist views,
but that his fascination with controversial nationalist
causes stems not from a hatred
of racial minorities,
but a rejection of post-Enlightenment universalism
and secularism."
[EDEN, A., 4-13-2001]
5. Harvey Weinig:
"Weinig pleaded guilty in 1995 to helping launder $19 million in drug
money for the Cali cocaine cartel."
[SMITH, GREG B., LAWYER AIDED BY BILL JOINED IN KIDNAP PLOT. DAILY NEWS (NEW
YORK), 2-16-01, p. 36]
6. Susan Rosenberg:
"In 1984, Rosenberg was found guilty of weapons possession
and sentenced to 58 years in prison for her participation in a bungled 1981
Brink's armored car robbery that left two policemen and a guard dead in Rockland
County, New York. She was also arrested in the 1983 Capitol bombing, but the
charges were later dropped."
[St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Those Pardoned By Clinton
Range from the Unknown to the Famous. January 23, 2001, p. A4]
7. Jodie E. Israel
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Among those others pardoned by Clinton was Al Schwimmer,
who was "convicted in 1950 of violating the U. S. Neutrality Act for
smuggling planes to forces fighting for the establishment of Israel ... He
used his experience in the U. S. Transport Command to recruit pilots and smuggle
planes to what is now Israel." [Maharaj, D., 2-24-2001]
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