The Associated Press website reports today (January 6, 2012) that a prominent New Jersey rabbi -- who admitted playing a role in a one million dollar money-laundering scheme involving religious charities -- was sentenced on January 4 in Trenton to five years in prison.
Eliahu Ben Haim -- a former Syrian Jewish rabbi in Deal, NJ -- was arrested in July 2009 in a wide-ranging federal corruption probe into international money-laundering and political corruption that netted 46 defendants.
Ben Haim, 60, pleaded guilty last year in Trenton to a money-laundering conspiracy count, admitting that he had used his network of religious charities to conceal more than a million dollars in illegal proceeds for a man who turned out to be a government informant.
That informant, Solomon Dwek, turned government cooperator following his own arrest in $50 million bank fraud.
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