Jew as Criminal - 1937

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May 16, 2010, 03:45:08 PM
Jew as Criminal   (Keller and Andersen, 1937; intro by Streicher)

Always good to read things from days of yore, before the TV's "cone of silence" descended upon the goy nations of the world.  The text is Jew as Criminal (Keller and Andersen, 1937; intro by Streicher). This is a real meal and will require some time to digest.

Here's the Table of Contents:

Table of Contents

Chapter One: What Linguistics and Statistics Show

Chapter Two: The Jew in Court

Chapter Three: Fences and Thieves

Chapter Four: Imposters

Chapter Five: Swindlers and Racketeers

Chapter Six: Gambling Cheats

Chapter Seven: Pimps and White Slavers

Chapter Eight: Sexual Offenders

Chapter Nine: Murderers

Jewish "Humor" -- The Crime of Fritz Saffran -- Monk Eastman, King of the Gangsters -- The Murder of McKinley -- The Attack on Otto von Bismarck -- The Murder of Count Stürkgh -- The Attempted Assassination of Stefan Tisza -- The Beylis Case -- Mordko Bogrov, Murderer of Minister President Peter Stolypin -- The Master Provocateur Asev - - Jakob Blumkin shoots at Mirbach -- The End of a Kaiser -- Murder of Hostages -- The Ship of Death -- The Worker-Murder of Astrakhan -- The Executioner of Tiflis -- Ssadowaya 5 -- Comrade Rosa -- Samuel Schwartzbart -- A Jew has shot. . .

And now an excerpt. I've added bolding for those in a hurry:

Chapter II : The Jew in Court (p. 25)

As wire-pullers and mouthpieces of the criminal and political Underworld, Jewry leads a concentrated attack upon the law and order of the people. The Jewish fence helpfully stands by the Jewish thief, the Jewish psychologist and expert stands by the Jewish sexual offender, and the Jewish attorney stands by both; the judgement is not in doubt if a Jew is also sitting on the judge's bench, as was so frequently the case in the German System(1). As if this were not enough, Jewry got ahold to the furthest extent even of the science, interpretation and execution of criminal law. It moulded and undermined the law in order to render it an impotent tool against Jewish criminality. To whatever extent these methods fell short, the goal was accomplished through the corruption of the procedures of criminal law and through Communist propaganda. The President of the Senate, Professor Dr. K. Klee, justly emphasized in his lecture concerning Judentum im Strafrecht [Jewry in the Criminal Law]: (2)

"Everywhere they (the Jews) were fighting in the front most ranks when it was a matter of blunting the sword of punishment in the struggle against crime." Professor Klee mentions a small selection of Jewish 'penal law theorists,' such as Moritz Liebmann, James Goldschmidt, State Counselor of Law Löwenstein, the Prussian Justice Minister Kurt Rosenfeld, Kantorowicz, Gumbel, Freymuth, and others.

Among these corruptors of criminal law, the known Communist Werthauer assumes a remarkable place. He denies that the State has any right at all to punish(3). Naturally [26] he demands the decriminalization of all offenses against morality, of abortion and homosexuality and finally escalates his shamelessness so far as to demand the decriminalization of fraud(1).

The working hand-in-hand of the Jewish criminal world, the Jewish 'criminal jurisprudence' and 'administration of justice,' and the Marxist propaganda jumps immediately to the eye. The Jewish theorists demand freedom from punishment primarily in the areas which are the domain of Jewry: sexual offenses, fraud, and treason, high and regional- level.

If, as defenders of common criminals, the 'celebrated' Jewish advocates of republican Berlin stepped to the bar, it was the same 'attorneys-at- law' who, in the 'sensational' trials of the Weimar system, defended the Communist functionaries and terrorists (2). Especially notorious were the 'attorneys' Löwenstein, Löwenfeld, Rosenthal and Rosenfeld, the Werthauer who is already known to us, and Felix Halle, the specialist for sexual offenses, and also Litten and Appel. Concerning the role of Litten in the notorious Felseneck trial in the summer of 1932, which had as its center the murder of several National Socialists during a Communist attack in the north of Berlin, Professor Siegert reports in his lecture about Judentum im Strafverfahrensrecht [Jewry in Criminal Law Proceedings](3) in the following manner:

"In the Felsen trial. . .by means of influencing witnesses and co- defendants, a defense counsel, the Jewish attorney Litten, was guilty of preferential treatment of his followers. The Court expelled him for this from the Office of the Defense Counsel. Instead of now joining the Court in the interests of justice, the Jewish state's counsel Siegfried Löwenstein addressed the legal [profession] public in the Deutsche Juristenzeitung [German Legal News] published by the Jew Otto Liebmann with an essay, Verteidigernot [Defense Counsel's Dilemma], and requested opinions in favor of his racial comrade Litten, the man who gave preferential treatment to the Communist accused. One hundred seventy-eight (178) members of the Berlin bar proposed in his favor an extraordinary meeting in chambers. The chamber -- occupied for the most part by Jews -- under the leadership of the Jew Ernst Wolff -- thereupon unanimously decided in favor of [27] the allegedly endangered independence and liberty of the defense and thereby aided and abetted the Jewish Communist Litten. Now, the Jew Max Hachenburg, as author of the Juristische Wochenschau [Legal Newsreel], appears as the last in line in the German legal newspaper.

He praises the "calm objectivity" of his racial comrade Ernst Wolff and supports the safeguarding of the independent attorney class. As if not the Jewish Communist Litten, but on the contrary, the impartial Court had imperilled the legal profession in the present case. Thus the racial comrades from the apparently most disparate political camps met in common struggle against good administration of justice."

When a Jew appears before any court whatsoever, he is secure in the sympathy of Jewry and of the Jewish 'public opinion.' Until the take over of power by National Socialism, the German press stood under decisive Jewish influence(1). Naturally this press was gentle in its judgement of Jewish criminals. Had any sort of poor devil stolen a bicycle, perhaps out of need, his full name was printed in the paper: "a certain Fritz Schulze"; when, however, some Kohn committed a fraud and injured other people without scruple, it read shyly "a merchant, K." -- why should his name be trumpeted about?

That was the sympathetic atmosphere in which the accused Jew appeared before the Court; judges, state's attorneys, jurors, witnesses -- all were more or less -- often unconsciously -- influenced by the Jewish 'public opinion.'

The fact is significant that, of the Jewish judges -- their names read: Ruben, Glücksohn, Hirsch, Jacobi, Katzmann, Manasse, Schlome, Schmoschewer, Peltasohn, Kohn, Seligsohn, Mensch, Nothmann, Rosauer, Loewy, Moses, Noah, Bukofzer, [28] Citron, Schuftan, etc. -- three quarters of them had as their fathers Jewish businessmen and dealers. Already, in their parental house, they breathed in the atmosphere of doing business and of the Jewish 'notion of right'; understanding and solidarity with the Jewish law-breaker was already in their blood.

And then the witnesses: witnesses from whom the truth often was in no way to be gotten, witnesses who could speak for hours at a time without saying anything, witnesses who commit any perjury with iron brow and sell their testimony to the highest bidder -- Jewish witnesses.

Then the Jewish 'experts.' At all universities, at all academies, in every focus of economic and cultural life, Jews had encysted themselves, always they monopolized discourse and occupied the best places: 42% of Berlin physicians were Jews, they had gotten control of 68% of the positions in school and welfare institutions. Naturally the experts cited by Jewish defendants were themselves Jews, who boldly sprang to the aid of the threatened racial comrade.

Their own publications throw a glaring light upon the mind-set and the activity of these Jewish 'experts,' as for example the 'monographs' from the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, Sexus, published by the notorious Magnus Hirschfeld, the evilest sexual Bolshevist of the Weimar epoch. Volume 4 of these 'monographs' is filled with "critical contributions" for the "reform" of the law concerning sexual offenses.  With the exception of a Herr v. Treskow, who reports on the topic of blackmail on sexual grounds, the contributions originate from the pens of the following Jews: Werthauer, Kronfeld, Juliusburger, Alsberg, Kurt Hiller and Hirschfeld, the very notables of the Weimar epoch. It fits the whole picture that Herr Hirschfeld was lodging the Communist Reichstag Deputy and major businessman Willy Münzenberg in the building of the Sexual Institute at number 10 In den Zelten, Berlin. The 'State Counselor' Dr. Werthauer, incidentally a friend of the Jewish black marketeer Kutisker and known as defender of Communists, was later sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 80,000 RM on account of tax evasion. This character had the brazenness to give his opinion for the benefit of the 'reform' of German marriage law, while Herr Hirschfeld, in his accustomed manner, offered his dirty hands for the protection of every perversity. The Jew Hirschfeld, who was allowed to bear the title of "Counselor for Public Health," and whose 'Institute' was financed by the Prussian state, was for years therecognized "scientific expert" for the German courts. The inconceivable nerve of this Jew seduced him into appending, in his contribution to the already mentioned [29] monographs, the following sentence: "The thing that matters (particularly in the disposition of sexual crimes) is the proof furnished, after the most careful study of the offender, of his previous life, his antecedents, his motives, his entire metaphysical personality, that the accused has no guilt." In this, therefore, the Jew Hirschfeld saw his "mission" before the Court: to furnish the proof that the criminal is no criminal.

His colleague and co-director of the Sexual Institute, Doctor of Medicine and of Philosophy Kronfeld, expressed himself in great detail in the same monograph, concerning the "job of medical expert before the Court." He sees the single mission of the "medical expert" in Court to be the obtaining of freedom for every criminal by means of the corresponding application of "psychology," "medical science," and "knowledge and conscience" and thwarting any use of the penal law.  To what a sublime art of pseudo-scientific abetting of crime the Jewish "experts," "scientists," and "psychologists" have gradually brought the criminal law, the infamous "psychoanalytic method" of a Sigmund Freud is sufficient proof and example.

The results of the court proceedings? 'Public opinion,' attorneys, witnesses, experts, and defendants supported one another in the effort to confuse the whole affair and to construct an inextricable tangle out of distortion and lies. That the non-Jewish state's attorneys and judges seldom succeeded in proving the guilt of the accused under such circumstances, is clear. This means that it was incomparably more difficult to convict a Jew than a non-Jew: the number of acquitted Jews was always disproportionately great. In other words: the Jew could break the law without being convicted.

Submitted by Fester on Sat, 2010-05-15 20:38

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http://jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/TheJewAsCriminal.pdf
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

Helphand

#1
June 26, 2010, 01:48:43 PM
This book is important as a reminder of another of the choke points in society that Jews latch on to in order to advance their subversive activities.

Reading UK news reports over the last 2-3 years concerning major crimes/well-publicised smaller offences, I have started to take note of just how often a bizarre decision to prosecute - or not to prosecute - has a Judaic name swimming around in the news report. For example in Teesside there was some Art Gallery owner (Chinese?) exhibiting Jesus Christ with an erection, the local Xians objected and the CPS/Crown Prosecution Service refused to prosecute.

Likewise the recent case at the Old Bailey of the two very young boys accsued of rape who in reality had it seems been engaged in a relatively innocent "doctors and nurses" game with the girl involved who later admitted in court she had lied.

The recent Bradford prostitute murder cases: the CPS lawyer being interviewed on tv news a month or so ago was surnamed Mann. Maybe like the UK Parliament MP of that name, he professes not to be Jewish; but it is not an English name.

I think it's time to start formal logging of the names of CPS prosecutors involved in cases that reach the media that involve bizarre decisions to prosecute or not, and to publish the names periodically on the net.



(London) Evening Standard Friday June 25 2010
page 1

"Doctor in assisted suicicde case will not be charged".

   A RETIRED GP who helped a London man to commit suicide at a Swiss clinic was today told that he will not be charged because a prosecution would not be in the public interest.

   Dr Michael Irwin, a former chairman of the British Euthenasia Socity, traveled to Switzerland with cancer patient Raymond Cutkelvin in 2007 so that the former post office clerk could be given a fatal dose of medicine at a Dignitas clinic.

   He later wrote to prosecutors admitting that he had donated a third of thr gbp4,500 fee paid to the clinic in an apparent invitation to them to trigger a test case on assisted suicide.

   Today, however, Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said that while there was sufficient evidence that both Dr Irwin, 79, and Mr Cutkelvin's civil partner, Alan Cutkelvin Rees, had committed an offence, neither would be charged.


Just who and WHAT is Keir Starmer? First name evokes the Bradford founder of the UK Parliamentary Labour Party late c19/early c20, but the surname???  Like "Gavin Essler" the BBC 2 TV Newsnight journalist and presenter the name combined with his GE's) Glaswegian accent tends to put off the usual enquiry... but is this another case of the crypto Jew doing "God's work" of favouritism for the fellow kikes?

Passing research finds this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/01/humanrights.law
- doesn't look J and the background info - such as is disclosed - doesn't give any of the usual signs.

Maybe he's just a paid-up member of the shabbas goyim club.

CrackSmokeRepublican

#2
June 26, 2010, 10:29:02 PM
JEWISH CRIME


     "Of all the areas of Jewish enterprise," notes Gerald Krafetz, "none has been so overlooked as the field of crime. And it isn't because of a lack of Jewish criminality. For an introspective people, this oversight is significant. It is as if Jewish crime did not exist, an unsavory skeleton is best left in the family closet ... The sociopathology of Jews is not an acceptable notion since it runs counter to both religious precepts and preconceived ideas that Jews have of themselves." [KREFETZ, p. 112] "Jews were ... involved in many of the most visible and spectacular frauds of the post-Civil War period," notes Benjamin Ginsberg, "as well as in economic dislocations and financial manipulations that characterize the era." [GINSBERG, p. 75] In one much publicized scandal for instance, the Jewish governor of South Carolina, Franklin Moses, oversaw the issue and selling of $6 million in fraudulent state securities, as well as funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds into his own pocket. [GINSBERG, p. 75]
 
     In a broader financial sphere, very visibly at the top of the socio-economic pyramid, Jewish businessman Joseph Seligman's nefarious activities in the late 1800s helped to create the infamous "Black Friday" stock market crash.  Benjamin Ginsberg notes that the crash
 
     "ruined thousands of investors, implicated President Grant, and led to a
     Congressional investigation of [Jay] Gould and Seligman ... Similarly, in
     the early 1890s, Jacob Schiff collaborated with E. H. Harriman in the
     latter's attempts to wrest control of the Northern Pacific Railroad from J.
     P. Morgan and James Hill ... When the price of the Northern Pacific
     Stock collapsed, the entire market crashed in the notorious 'Black
     Thursday' panic that led to a nationwide economic depression."
     [GINZBURG, p. 73]
 
     In 1885 the French-based project to build the Panama Canal collapsed, resulting in financial scandal that led, in part, to Seligman again. "Both the United States Congress and the French Parliament had inquiries," says Ginsberg, "In both countries major Jewish financiers were implicated: Baron Jacques de Reinach in Paris and Joseph Seligman in the United States. Many shareholders lost everything, but Seligman lost nothing. In contemporary parlance, the Seligmans engaged in influence peddling, insider trading, and corporate asset stripping and looting -- all at the expense of credulous investors." [GINZBURG, p. 74] The French end of the Panama Canal scandals, notes Albert Lindemann, "involved large amounts of French capital and threatened national prestige -- and Jewish agents were deeply involved. The intermediaries between the Panama company and parliament were almost exclusively Jews with German names and backgrounds, some of whom tried to blackmail one another." [LINDEMANN, p. 87]
 
     The Jewish component of (Gentile) Huey Long's corrupt political machine in early 20th century Louisiana included Leon Weiss, an architect, who "was implicated in the financial scandals surrounding the administration and served prison time." [KIRKUS, 10-1-97] Herbert Stempel was willing participant in the 1950s television quiz show scandals until a Gentile, Charles Van Doren, usurped him in deceit. Jewish TV producer Lew Cowan, denying guilt, was one of the most prominent executives who lost his job in the wake of the scandals. Even at the heart of the World Zionist Organization, after founder Theodore Herzl's death, his wife Julie ("an extravagant and unstable woman") "threatened the Zionist leaders with scandals and lawsuits if they didn't meet her extravagant financial needs." [STERNBERGER, I., 8-15, 1995]
 
      At the other end of the socio-economic world, "the scant attention [popular author Irving Howe] paid to Jewish crime in World of Our Fathers, his magisterial study of the [Manhattan Jewish] Lower East side," notes Charles Silberman, "is a good example of the amnesia American Jews show about this part of their history." [SILBERMAN, p. 128] In researching the level of Jewish crime during the early decades of this century in the Lower East Side, Albert Fried notes that "I discovered that an enormously complex, richly endowed culture of vice and criminality, made up mainly of young people, thrived on the Lower East Side, that most outsiders regarded it as Tammany's bastion of power [Tammany Hall, the corrupt New York city government of the era] that the Jews themselves eventually came to look upon it as an insufferable burden of shame and embarrassment." [FRIED, p. xiv] Such embarrassment included Jewish "fagins" (bands of pickpockets), thieves, pimps, prostitutes, opium dealers, gamblers, brothel-owners, racketeers, murderers, robbers, and others of virtually any persuasion. Arson for building insurance and horse-poisoning in extortion rackets were "two offenses associated almost exclusively with Jews." [JOSELIT, p. 36] "In the area of only one square mile [in the Jewish Lower East Side]," notes Jenna Weissman Joselit, "authorities estimated there were approximately two hundred disorderly [prostitution] houses, three hundred and thirty-six gang 'hang-outs,' and over two hundred pool halls-cum-betting establishments; dance halls, a rendezvous of pimps and procurers, were found every two and one-half blocks." [JOSELIT, p. 24]
 
       Abe "the General" Greenthal, "was one of America's premier pickpockets ... Abe's home and base of operation was in New York City, but his gang traveled all over the United States picking pockets." Michael Kurtz (born in 1850) "was one of America's most celebrated burglars." Joseph 'Yoski Nigger' Toblinsky "led a gang that specialized in stealing and poisoning horses."  Benjamin (Dopey) Fein "was the first gangster to make labor racketeering a full-time and profitable business. He institutionalized the practice of furnishing gangs of hoodlums to unions in their wars against employers." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 88, 91, 94, 95]
 
     "In 1908," notes the Jerusalem Post, "Jews were 25 percent of the four million residents in New York City but 50% of the prison population." [HENRY, M., 10-4-01] That same year, the police commissioner of New York City, Theodore A. Bingham, publicly noted that half of all the criminals in his city were Jewish. "Jewish leaders," notes Robert Rockaway, "worried that Jewish gangsters provided ammunition for Jew-haters. Consequently, they steadfastly refused to acknowledge the problem in public." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 51] As stories of Jewish crime in New York City became increasingly publicized in the mainstream mass media, initially the "Yiddish press challenged the veracity of the evidence," [GOREN, p. 141] but "beginning in 1909 and reaching a climax in 1912," says Arthur Goren, "widely publicized disclosures of vice and crime among Jews created dismay and then alarm in Jewish circles. Protests of innocence were now impossible." [GOREN, p. 135]
 
     The murder of a well-known Jewish gambler, Herman Rosenthal, was particularly horrifying for the Jewish community in that it opened up a Pandora's Box of trials and testimonies profoundly unflattering to local Jewry. Goren notes that
 
        "The appalling fact was that the underworld segment which the trials
        and the indefatigable press had so thoroughly laid bare consisted almost
        entirely of Jewish gangsters and gamblers. No longer could Jewish
        apologists find comfort in viewing the phenomena as a rare deviation
        from the norm. In the accounts, the criminals appeared as
        commonplace East Side figures. Sons of hard-working parents, most
        had been exposed as children to religious training and had led average
        family lives. Even considering the hired gangsters apart, one could point
        to exceptional and touching instances of family loyalty, pride in one's
        ethnic group, and knowledge of an affection for Jewish religious
        tradition." [GOREN, p. 154]
 
     "Jewish criminals," wrote Moses Rischin, "regularly made newspaper headlines. The appearance of an ungovernable youth after the turn of the century was undeniable and excited apprehension." [FRIED, p. xvi] In April 1911, for instance, 400 Jewish shopkeepers flooded a criminal court building to complain and testify before a grand jury about robberies and gangs in their neighborhoods. [FRIED, p. 26] In 1909 alone, 3,000 Jewish "youngsters" appeared before an area juvenile court. [FRIED, p. 41] Gangster Monk Eastman alone "bossed a Jewish street gang that could field as many as 1,200 men on short notice." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 97] While many criminals were rooted in poverty, some prominent Jewish gangsters -- like Arnold Rothstein and Big Jack Zelig -- came from comfortable backgrounds. [FRIED, p. 40] The king of Jewish crime in the era, Arthur Rothstein, "was a rich man's son." [COHEN, R., p. 46] Monk Eastman's father "was solidly middle class, a restaurant owner." [COHEN, R., p. 45] Israeli scholar Robert Rockaway discounts the usual apologetics for Jewish gangsters, saying:
 
     "More likely, these men selected careers in crime because they wanted
     money, power, recognition and status; and they wanted it fast. Crime
     offered them a quick way to realize their dreams." [ROCKAWAY, R.,
     1993, p. 52]
 
      "It was the Jews, by and large," says Norman Cantor, "not the Italians, who created what was later called the Mafia. In the 1920s the Italians began to replace the Jews in the New York organized crime industry, but as late as 1940 if you wanted a spectacular hit you were looking for a representative of the Lepke Buchalter Gang, also known as Murder Inc. Jews were also prominent in the gambling trade and developed Las Vegas in the 1940s. It was a Jewish gambler who fixed the 1919 baseball World Series -- what became known as the Black Sox scandal." [CANTOR, p. 389] The perpetrator of the scandal was Arnold Rothstein, notes Charles Silberman, "the inventor of organized crime." [SILBERMAN, p. 128]
 
     "It was with some astonishment," notes Jewish critic Marvin Kitman,
 
        "that I discovered what an integral part of American Jewish life crime
        was. Our forefathers made names for themselves, such as they are,
        as gangsters, murderers, musclemen, hit men, acid throwers, arm
        breakers, bombers and all the other professions open to nice Jewish
        boys. Prostitution, vice, alcohol, gambling, racketeering, extortion,
        and all the other things that fill the newspaper today and that I gladly
        have been attributing as character flaws in other groups of founding
        fathers: Those were our things ... I was shocked at how deep our
        roots are in all the sinks of depravity and corruption ... The Jews
        were the first ones to realize the link between organized crime and
        organized politics. They led the way in corrupting the police and city
        hall. They first realized the value of gang/syndicate cartels in business
        to reduce the killing of each other. They were monopolists of the
        highest order ... We wrote the book, so to speak, on crime, but it's all
        forgotten." [KITMAN, p. 9]
 
      "Some disgruntled Jewish immigrants," says Jonathan Sarna, "chose crime as their vehicle of upward mobility. Through robbery and fencing operations, they created a parasitic counter-industry that lived off the garment trade, skimming its profits for personal benefit. Others made their living by exploiting Jewish religious practices (the standard history of the kosher-meat industry in New York is aptly entitled Fraud, Corruption, and Holiness)." [SARNA, Jewish, p. 53]
 
      Kosher meat is food that is prepared according to traditional Orthodox religious standards; it presumably entails extra time and energy to prepare which escalates prices to be higher than non-kosher food. An investigation in New York City sponsored by a Jewish community organization in 1915 discovered that 60% of the meat sold as kosher was fraudulent: most rabbis who supervised kosher sanctions were under slaughterhouse employ and abandoned strict religious adherence. [GOREN, p. 79] Among 6,000 New York area butchers who allegedly only sold kosher meat to fellow Jews, there were "few who did not, at some point, deal in unkosher meat."[GASTWIRT, p. 113] The Jewish slaughterhouse system was also involved in price-fixing, extortion, racketeering, fist fights in the synagogue, and even murder. "The intense rivalry and competition in the kosher poultry business," notes Harold Gastwirt, "made it prey to racketeering and violence." [GASTWIRT, p. 46]
 
      Jewish gangsters were also violently active in support of Jewish unions or employers, depending upon who paid them. "Some of the so-called Jewish unions," remarked a veteran of Jewish labor activities, "... fell early in their careers upon evil days: underworld characters, gangsters, got a foothold in the organization ... Unfortunately, the element engaged to help would refuse to clear out when their services were no longer wanted." [GOREN, p. 304] Rita Simon notes another of the political dimensions of underworld [and New York City governmental] corruption:
 
      "In exchange for police protection of his gang, [gang leader] Monk
      [Easton] employed 'repeaters' (repeat voters) at the polls in favor of
      Tammany Hall, the local Democratic machine." [SIMON, p. 139]
 
       Jewish crime was widespread in a number of the largest urban areas of America, some of it eventually "syndicated" throughout the country, at times even in cooperation with the Italian mafia. In Chicago the Westside Jewish underworld ward was known as the "Bloody Twentieth." A 1906 description of the area claimed that "murderers, robbers, and thieves of the worst kind are born, reared, and grow to maturity in numbers that far exceed the record of any similar district on the face of the globe." [FRIED, p. 90]  (Even Al Capone's accountant, who later rose to further notoriety, was Jewish, Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik.) [LACEY, p. 18] In Cleveland, the Jewish community had its "noisome and brutal Woodland section"; in Detroit it was the eastside, most prominently ruled by the Purple Gang; in Boston it was the Chelsea quarter; Newark had its "fierce third ward"; and in Philadelphia Jewish crime, featuring boss Harry Stromberg, was largely located in the southeast area. These cities, with New York, says Albert Fried, "held the worst, that is the most criminalized, of the Jewish neighborhoods in America." [FRIED, p. 90]  In London, England, notes Daniel Levy, "the Jews were involved in assorted criminal activities. They committed petty thievery, forgery, and illegal distilling of booze. Some sailed to eastern Europe and convinced young girls that jobs and bachelors awaited them in England, only to ship them off to Indian or Argentinean white slave markets." [LEVY, D, p. 20] Earlier forms of blackmail by non-Jewish British gangs were "developed by Jewish gangs (formed after the great immigration of the 1880s) into extortion from legitimate shopkeepers. Much as Jewish gangsters liked to portray themselves as honourable knights defending their co-religionists against anti-Semitic thugs, they were just as likely to live as predators upon their fellow Jews. A gang of extortionists known as the 'Bessarabians' were headed by a professional boxer who called himself Max Moses in private life and 'Kid McCoy' in the ring." [FIDO, M., 2000, p. 17]
 
    Poland? In the early twentieth century, future Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion was jailed in Warsaw, Poland, for suspected radical political activism. "That was the first time," he said later,
 
     "that I ever came into contact with the dregs of society. I was shaken
     to the core at the language and behavior. I never had the slightest notion
     that such people ever existed ... The thing that shook me most was that
     these criminals were Jews." [Daniel Kurzon suggests that these included
     members of a rival Jewish political group which Ben-Gurion considered
     "more dangerous criminals" than the "brothel keepers." [KURZMAN, D.,
     1983, p. 67]
 
     Prominent Jews in Chicago's criminal underworld included Louis 'Diamond Louie' Cowan, Hymie 'the Loud Mouth' Levine, Sam 'Sammy the Greener' Jacobson, Maxie Eisen, Murray 'the Camel' Humphreys, and (non-Jewish) Al Capone's money man, Jake Guzik. [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 43]  In 1924, "Chicago Jewish leader" S. M. Melamed warned about the "great number of Jews in the underworld." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 49]
 
     "Bootlegging in Boston," notes Robert Rockaway,
 
     "was controlled by Charles 'King' Solomon ... He headed one of the
     largest liquor, vice, and narcotics smuggling syndicates in New
     England ... In the 1920s, Solomon ran the Boston underworld."
     [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 34]
 
      But even smaller cities, like Minneapolis and adjacent St. Paul, had serious problems with Jewish crime. In November 1927 the Minneapolis Saturday Press ran an article that enflamed local public opinion, quoting the remarks of a non-Jewish gangster:
 
      "90% of the crimes committed against society in this city are committed
      by Jew gangsters ... It is Jew, Jew, Jew, as long as one cares to comb
      over the records. I am launching no attack against the Jewish people as a
      RACE. I am merely calling attention to a FACT." [FRIED, p. 113]
 
     Originally from Sioux Falls, Iowa, prominent Jewish gangsters in Minneapolis included "Kid" Cann (Isador Blumenfeld), Yiddie Bloom, and the Berman brothers (Davie and Chickie). [LACEY, p. 66] Cann is believed to have been responsible for the murder of Walter Ligget, publisher of Midwest America, for a series of articles the paper printed about the Minneapolis criminal underworld. Ligget was gunned down in front of his family while Christmas shopping. "Much of [Minneapolis'] illicit business," notes Robert Rockaway,
 
     "was managed by Isadore 'Kid Cann' ... Blumenfeld and his all-Jewish
     syndicate ... In 1942, the FBI identified Kid Cann as 'the overlord
     of the Minneapolis, Minnesota underworld." [ROCKAWAY, R.,
     1993, p. 48]
 
     Cleveland mob leaders included Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, Sam Tucker, and Lou Rothkopf. After prohibition, "the Cleveland mob joined with Lansky and his confederates ... and formed the core of the most sophisticated national crime syndicate in America." [BLOCK, A., p. 165] Shondor Birns (Szandor Birnstein) was another prominent Cleveland mobster, lasting in the criminal underworld for decades til 1975, when he was assassinated by a car bomb. In early years, he was part of the Maxie Diamond (also Jewish) gang. Among Birns' crime partners was Mervin Gold who "was accused of defrauding banks and the Small Business Administration by using stolen Canadian bonds as collateral for loans. He fled to Israel," but eventually returned. Birns, noted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for his reputation as a "charming killer," was suspected of Gold's eventual murder. [MCGUANGLE, F., 7-11-99, p. 5H]
 
     Reading, Pennsylvania? As non-Jewish mobster Patsy Lepera recounted in his autobiography:
 
     "Reading at that time, in the thirties and forties, was run by the Minkers --
     Abe and his brother Izzy. They had a nephew named Alex Fudeman
     who fronted for them ... Even though my father was connected right
     to Sicily, he had to do what the Jews wanted done in Reading, because
     that was their town. They eliminated the Italians. At one time it was
     a two-mob town ... One thing I learn as I go through life is if you come
     up against a Jew or an Italian, you check him out. You don't do nothing
     against him -- you check him out careful. Jews don't belong to the [Italian]
     mob, but they're connected strong. An awful lot of Jews are connected
     strong." [LEPERA, P., 1974, p. 7-8]
 
    Missouri? Charlie Birger (born Sachna Itzik Berger), prominent bootlegger, was hung in 1928 for the murder of the mayor of West City, Missouri. He is believed to have been "responsible directly or indirectly for the murders of at least a dozen people, many of whom had been his loyal followers." One of the killed who was not a follower was a local Ku Klux Klan leader. [DE NEAL, G., 1998, p. xviii]
 
     To what lengths Jewish fraud and crime could go might be measured in the chutzpah of Bernie Barton (originally Blaustein) who even set up a fake church with a junkie as preacher as a "front for fencing stolen goods." [DEUTSCH, G., p. 7]
 
      A number of modern respectable Jewish fortunes were founded on links to the underworld in the Prohibition era. Most noteworthy, the Seagram's alcohol fortune (the Canadian Bronfman family) grew to power by getting their alcohol into criminal hands who smuggled it into the United States. Bronfman, who bristled when anyone called him a bootlegger, had a distribution deal for his booze with Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky. [BIRMINGHAM, p. 159] Detroit's largely Jewish Purple Gang was also extremely active in running illegal booze from Windsor across the river border. The Purple Gang's activities also included "gambling, prostitution, extortion, loan sharking, and rackets of every kind." [FRIED, p. 102] So much smuggling was going on between Canada and the United States across Lake Erie that it was known as "the Jewish Lake." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 37]  During prohibition too, "[Federal] officials labeled sacramental wine [for religious purposes] one of the chief sources of illegal liquor in the nation," notes Jenna Weissman Joselit, "Furthermore, calling the record level of usage a 'national scandal,' they saw the problem as largely a Jewish one." [JOSELIT]

    Here's what Israeli scholar Robert Rockaway says about Detroit's Purple Gang, and Jewish gangs generally:

     "During Prohibition (1920-1933), Jewish gangsters became major operatives
      in the American underworld and played prominent roles in the creation of
      organized crime in the United States. At the time, Jewish gangs dominated illicit
      activiites in a number of America's largest cities, including Cleveland, Detroit,       Minneapolis, Newark, New York, and Philadelphia. The gang dealt in bootlegging,       gambling, extortion, drugs, and murder, and developed a reputation for being
      more ruthless than Al Capone's mob in Chicago. The Purple's decade-long reign
      of terror ended when most of the gang's members either went to prison or were       murdered by rivals ... During the Prohibition era (1919-1933) 50 percent of the
      country's leading bootleggers were Jews, and Jewish criminals financed and
      directed much of the nation's narcotics traffic ... While Jews predominated in
      their quarter [in Purple Gang-era Detroit], other immigrants and ethnic groups
      lived there as well. One former resident of the old neighorhood joked that it was
      of the old neighborhood joked that i was easy to distinguish the Jewish dwelling
      from those occupied by non-Jews. 'The non-Jews grew flowers in front of their
      houses,' he said. 'The Jews grew dirt.'" [ROCKAWAY, R., 2001, p. 113-]

     Elsewhere, "bootlegging in Prohibition-era Philadelphia was directed by Max 'Boo Boo' Huff ... Huff's successor as Philadelphia's dominant Jewish mobster was Harry Stromberg, alias Nig Rosen ... He also led what was called the '69th Street  Gang' that dealt in prostitution, extortion and labor racketeering. His influence extended as far as Washington, Baltimore, and Atlantic City ... When Stromberg left Philadelphia, he was superceded by his driver and bodyguard, Willie Weisberg, a long-time member of the city's Jewish underworld." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 32, 34]
 
      Another modern Jewish fortune similarly constructed is that of the Annenbergs, which was founded upon Moses Annenberg's horse racing news monopoly that he arranged with the criminal underworld. "That Annenberg and the Prohibition and gambling mobs had interests in common is indisputable," says Albert Fried, "An information monopoly, nominally independent, gave the mobs the wherewithal to police the complex, sprawling kingdom of the Book [i.e., gambling and bookies]; it was an instrument of their sovereignty. In return Annenberg was allowed to reap inordinate profits and become one of the richest men in the land, the founder of one of its singular dynasties." [FRIED, p. 118]
 
     Another of the most prominent Jewish American family fortunes, the "fabulously rich Pritzker family from Chicago," had links, however indirectly, to organized crime even in more recent history. They were involved, as "clients of the [Bruce] Kanter firm," who ran a variety of shady Caribbean companies. Kanter, who "had direct ties to organized crime," [BLOCK, A., p. 162] served on the Hyatt hotel company's Board of Directors (Hyatt is one of many companies owned by the Pritzkers). [BLOCK, A., p. 191] Also, notes Allen Block,
   
     "A little digging into their background produced troubling questions.
      It was discovered that the source of some Pritzker money comes from
      the racket-ridden Teamsters Pension Fund ... Investigators probing the
      Pritzker empire were intrigued by its connection to the Pension Fund.
      This was especially so when it discovered that both [mob-linked] Jimmy
      Hoffa and Allen Dorfman personally worked on Pritzker loans."
      [BLOCK, A., p. 192]
 
     In 1997, major publishers afforded two legendary Jewish conmen of international (dis)repute respective biographies. Adam Worth started out re-joining and re-deserting various Civil War regiments (both Union and Confederate) for enlistment bonuses and later expanded his exploits into forgery, larceny, robbery, burglary, and other criminal mainstays. In England, Sir Robert Anderson, head of Criminal Investigations at Scotland Yard, observed in 1907 that "Adam Worth was the Napoleon of crime. None other could hold a candle to him." The Pinkerton security agency noted that "in the death of Adam Worth there probably departed the most inventive and daring criminal in modern times ... Among all the men Pinkertons have known in a life time, this man was the most remarkable criminal of them all." [MCINTYRE, p. 287] Novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used Worth as his model for Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis. An important associate in Worth's earlier years was "Mother" Mandelbaum, described in her era as "the great crime promoter of modern times," the "most successful fence in the history of Newy York" and the woman who "first put crime in America on a syndicated basis." Starting in 1862, over the next two decades she was reputed to have "handled between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 worth of stolen property." [MCINTYRE, B., 1997, p. 29, 30]

      A few years later another real-life rogue (and Jewish) notable, Morris Cohen (the subject of the second biography), rose from a life as a western Canadian circus barker and pickpocket to an adventurous life as an arms dealer, bodyguard, and general to Chinese leader Sun Yat-Sen. [LEVY,  D.] Later he served under Chiang Kai-Shek. He also functioned as a liaison for Zionist influences to Chinese leadership. [UROFSKY, M., 1978, p. 99]

A similar Jewish con-man was Elias Abraham Rosenberg, a "rascal" who arrived in Hawaii in 1887. There, he

     "ingratiated himself with King David Kalakaua by his chanting and so-called
     occult powers. He soon became the King's soothsayer and astrologer, acquiring
     such power over the monarch that the Hawaiian press bitterly denounced him
     as a 'Holy Moses.' Rosenberg taught the King some Hebrew and was persuaded
     to appoint him appraiser of customs. He was given quarters in the Iolani Palace,
     where he practiced magic, read the stars, and chanted Bible stories in Hebrew."
     [KOPPMAN/POSTAL, 1978, p. 229-230]
    In 1998, Jewish fraudster Trebitsch Lincoln was also afforded a biography. Lincoln, noted a reviewer, was "the king of dupers" and "a thwarted megalomaniac who was also a champion con man." Born in Hungary in 1879, he immigrated to England and converted to Christianity. He became a member of Parliament, and later tried to become a British, and then a German, spy. He turned up as a supporter of the right-wing Kapp Putsch in Berlin in 1920, became an abbot of a Buddhist temple in Shanghai, fleeced his devotees, welcomed invading Japanese, became a Nazi apologist/propagandist and on and on in the life of a human chameleon. [BERRY, N., 5-8-98, p. 28]
 
      In 1999, the (London) Daily Mail highlighted the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, "of Jewish and Romany stock." Both were imprisoned in the 1960s. Only Reggie survives, "the best-known gangster in Britain ... By 1963, through their networks of thugs and thieves, Ronnie and Reggie were lording it over London's underworld and became figures in London society."
 
     Decades after the likes of Worth and Cohen, famous Jewish underworld figures like Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky made the American scene. Siegel was instrumental in creating the legalized crime-laden playground of Las Vegas, starting things off at the Flamingo Hotel. Joseph Sacher headed the nearby Sands Hotel; Sacher "was second only to Lansky in the [crime] Syndicate. Years ... [later] he fled the U.S. and went into exile in Israel." [KELLEY, K., p. 219]  Allen Friedman notes another early Jewish criminal influence in Sin City:  "The real potential of Las Vegas was not understood until Moe Sedway arrival in 1941." [FRIEDMAN, A., p. 82]
 
      Meyer Lansky eventually "retired" from a successful life of crime with some $150-300 million after corrupt escapades that included Florida's "Gold Coast," the Bahamas, and a gambling resort in pre-Castro Cuba. "At the height of his notoriety," says Robert Lacey, "Meyer Lansky was reckoned to be, and was targeted by the U.S. Justice Department as, the biggest gangster in the United States -- a dangerous lawbreaker of extraordinary power. He was identified as the Mafia's banker, the boss of the National Crime Syndicate, the head of the Combination -- the Chairman of the Board." [LACEY, R., p. 10-11]
 
      Las Vegas has long been a hotbed of underworld influence and a worldwide attraction for gambling and prostitution. The Italian Mafia has also, from the conception of Las Vegas as a leisure Mecca, held great sway in the city, but its most famous underworld personages have always been Jewish mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky.  The great scope of Jewish contribution to the creation, and dubious ethics, of Las Vegas may be measured by the words of professor Allen Balboni. Here he discusses the development of the desert city as a gambling resort area:
 
     "Most of the [Las Vegas] hotel builders were Jewish Americans.
     Jay Sarno and Nate Jacobson were associated with Caesar's Palace
     [Sarno later created Circus Circus]; Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman,
     and Sam Tucker with the Desert Inn (and, along with Jake Factor,
     with the Stardust after [Italian-American Tony] Cornero's death);
     Sidney Wyman, Al Gottesman, and Jake Gottleib with the early years
     of the Dunes; Gus Greenbaum, Moe Sedway, and Charlie Resnick
     with managing the Flamingo after Bugsy Siegel's death; Ben Goffstein,
     Willie Alderman, and David Berman with the booking and running of the
     Riviera; Milton Prell with the establishment of the Sahara and then with
     the transformation of the Tally-Ho into the Aladdin; Hyman Abrams, Carl
     Cohen, and Jack Entratter with the ownership and operation of the
     Sands; and Ben Jaffe, Phil Kastel, and Jell Houssels (of Anglo-Saxon
     background) with the construction and operation of the Tropicana ... A
     few Italian-Amerians hold minor ownership shares in casinos."
     [BALBONI, p. 27]

     Jewish singer Eddie Fisher recalls a Las Vegas offer he had at the peak of his career that he now regrets turning down:

     "When I was working at the Desert Inn I met with a man named Billy
     Weinberger, who told me, 'We're building a new hotel and we want to
     give you fifty percent of it.' In return I would perform there permanently
     and would use my influence to attract other major stars. That sounded
     interesting. 'What's it going to be called?' I asked. 'Caesar's Palace.'"
     [FISHER, E., 1999, p. 292]
 
      Bernie Rothkopf also owned the MGM Hotel. Allen Glick was, between 1974-79, "the mob's front man at the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda, and Marina hotels." [MORRISON, J.A., p. 1A] "In July, 1979 Allen Glick was stripped of his Nevada gambling license and fined over $500,000 for a variety of improprieties." Glick sold his interests in casinos to Allan Sachs, who was, with a partner, "figureheads for the Chicago mob responsible for providing skim monies" from Las Vegas gambling operations. [MOLDEA, 1989, p. 336] Jerome Mack, past president of the Dunes and Riviera, was a former national chairman of the Israel Bonds Campaign. Jewish entrepreneur Hank Greenspon owned the Las Vegas Sun newspaper and a local TV station. [See his efforts for Israel in the mass media section]
 
     In more recently years, Arthur Goldberg is the CEO of Park Place Entertainment, a conglomeration of 29 hotel-casinos [JENKINS, P., 5-30-99] worldwide (Caesar's Palace, Bally's, etc.) that is twice the size of its nearest competitor. Its Stardust division is the world's largest hotel company. Elsewhere, Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the Sands, is also the owner of Venetian, a new Las Vegas complex built in 1999 at a cost of $1.6 billion. Adelson is "one of richest men in America," in 1998 worth about $600 million. [STOLL, I., 1-7-00, p. 1] Adelson, noted the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "is one of the country's largest donors to Jewish groups and he has influence in the national Jewish community." [RALSTON]  Adelson, notes the (Jewish) Forward, "has paid for 75 congressmen to visit Israel with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [the pro-Israel lobbying organization]." [STOLL, I., p. 1] As Joe Gelman noted in 1999, "A number of these sin-palace operators are Jewish and strong supporters of Israel." [GELMAN, p. 15B] [Author Gelman complains about the use of this citation here].
 
     The chairman of the Mirage, Steve Wynn, is also Jewish. (The funds for Wynn's first casino, the Golden Nugget, was in large part raised by convicted Jewish financier Michael Milken). [JOHNSTON, D., p. 74] The Las Vegas mayor, Oscar Goodman, elected in 1999, is the former president of Temple Beth Sholom. He also has a reputation as a "mob lawyer," defending, among others, Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky and Frank Rosenthal. Rosenthal, notes the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "is credited by some with founding the modern day Las Vegas sports book but was repeatedly denied a gambling license because of association with organized crime members." [ZAPLER, p. 1A]
 
     All of this, in more recent years, has its mirror image in Atlantic City and, increasingly, other American gambling Meccas. Kenny Shapiro, for instance, was "the Atlantic investment banker for [Italian American mafioso] Nicky Scarfo, the vicious killer who ruled the Philadelphia Mafia, the most murderous mob family in America." [JOHNSTON, D., 1992, p. 82]
 
     Another influential Jewish gambling mogul today is Sol Kerzner, founder and principal owner of Sun City (also known as "Sin City"), a resort playground created in 1979 in a poverty-stricken area of apartheid South Africa. Kerzner's modern empire has expanded with extravagant casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Bahamas, Mauritus, France, and a Native American site in Connecticut. An alleged bribery scheme involving the Jewish mayor of Capetown, David Bloomberg, in 1986 held up -- for a while -- his United States investments.
 
     "Sun City," notes reporter Jay Clarke, "started out as a 'Sin City,' a place where South Africans could let their hair down because it was located then in the so-called 'independent homeland' of Bophuthatswana. Gambling, show-girl revenues, and prostitution were the lures." [CLARKE, p. TR1]  "If ever there was an appropriate setting for corruption it is Sun City," noted the (London) Guardian, "situated as it is in one of nine homelands which represent the cornerstones of that most corrupt of social systems, apartheid." [BERESFORD, p. 18]  One of the Israelis who made millions off the immoral socio-political system surrounding Sun City is Shabtai Kalmanovitch; he worked as an "economic advisor" to Bophuthatswana' s dictator. [BERESFORD, p. 18] )
 
      In recent years Sun City has attempted to diversify by creating a family-oriented "Lost City" adventure park adjoining the casino. "The patent reason why the Lost City has been designed as a family playground and entertainment centre," says the (London) Guardian,
 
        "is that it entices the public into gaming. The corridors leading to the
        main casino even feature children's versions of slot machines -- game
        machines -- which could with some justification be described as
        nursery slopes inculcating the joys (or otherwise) of adult addiction
        to the one-armed bandits packing the main 'treasure hall.'"
        [BERESFORD, p. 18]
 
     Many Jewish (and other) mob figures were also involved in the gambling industry in Cuba until the communist revolution destroyed their operations. "After the loss of Cuba and the clampdown on the Mafia by the Kennedy Justice Department," notes Dan Moldea, "Meyer Lansky and the organized crime syndicate had targeted the Bahamas as its new off-shore gambling and narcotics empire." [MOLDEA, 1989, p. 128]
 
    In the casino/resort/hotel world of the Bahamas, and its criminal underworld, Jews have also been prominent. Among those who find a place in Alan Block's book about organized crime on these islands are
 
    * Louis Arthur Chesler who "served as [mobster] Lansky's point man ...
       Among Chesler's criminal specialties was the handling of stolen
       securities." [p. 34-35]
    * Morris Mac Schwabel, a Manhattan attorney, formerly convicted of
       securities fraud. [p. 36]
    * Joseph Jacob Frankel, who in the early 1960s "teamed up with Charles
       'Ruby' Stein and [Italian mafioso] Nicholas 'Jiggs' Farlano who were
       major organized crime figures." [p. 89]
    * Arthur Millgram, president of Automated Ticket Systems (it had
       contracts with the New York lottery system), who was murdered in
       1977. [p. 91]
    * Joel Mallin, a lawyer who had "ties to the mob." [p. 91]
    * Irving Kahn, partner with "mob attorney Morris Shenker." [p. 95]
    * C. Gerald Goldsmith, who "was the Board Chairman of the [Nassau]
       Port Authority, DEVCO, and several related firms. This put him in
       the middle of one of the largest political payoff scams in the Bahamas.
       ... One of his duties was the illegal siphoning of company funds into
       the hidden bank accounts for political payoffs." [p. 95, 98]
    * Ben Novack, owner of Miami's Fountainbleau hotel, who was an
       "associate of prominent gangsters Lansky, Coppola, and others
       including Max Eder, a loanshark and suspected labor racketeer
       with a history of gambling, robbery, narcotics, and homicide
       arrests." [p. 115]
     * "Cleveland racketeers Morris Kleinman and Moe Dalitz." [p. 116]
     * Burt Kanter, a lawyer who had "direct ties to organized crime. [p. 162]
       He was a senior member of the law firm Kanter, (Milton) Levenfeld,
       (Charles) Lippitz and (Roger) Baskes.
     * Allen Dorfman, who was "murdered in 1985 to prevent him from
        talking about mob investments ... [He] was in the same league as
        Glick, Shenker, and Malnik." [p. 164]
 
      Even among many of the most vicious Jewish thugs, worldwide collectivist Jewish loyalty usually finds expression. "During Israel's war of independence," says Gerald Krefetz, "[Meyer Lansky] killed an arms exporter who was selling to Arab countries. Lansky has contributed substantial funds from his gambling fortunes to Jewish causes, particularly to the United Jewish Appeal." [KREFETZ, p. 116] "A Jew should lead a normal life and a proud life," Lansky once remarked, "... I've been ready at any time in my life to defend myself against insults to Jews or to me as a Jew." [SARNA, Jewish, p. 55]  In Russia, in warring leading to the Communist revolution, "real life gangster [Jewish] Misha Yaponchik ... helped to defend Odessa's Jews from the Whites [loyal to the Tsar] but was afterwards killed by the [Communist] Reds." [SICHER, p. 172] In England, Jewish criminal Jacob Comacho (aka Jack Spot) started "to establish the reputation for violence that would cause his rise. He called himself the "King of Aldgate." "When Oswald Mosley's Fascists started to infest the East End [of London] chanting, 'We gotta get rid of the Yids,' Spot became a local hero, taking a lead-weighted chair leg to inflict a savage beating on one of Mosely's roughnecks at the battle of Cable Street. Spot's exultant recollection of the incident from his placid law-abiding retirement in the '80s was still capable of startling a young journalist by the revelation of relished brutality ... He liked to think of himself as the strong man who could be sent for by any Jewish businessman in trouble anywhere, from Glasgow to London. He would then bash the businessmen's enemies, and in return help himself to clothing, food and drink, and spare cash as he needed it. Rabbis recommended him to their congregations, as Spot tells it." [FIDO, M., 2000, p. 32-33]
 
     "During Prohibition," notes Israeli scholar Robert Rockaway, "fifty per cent of the leading bootleggers were Jewish, and Jewish criminals financed and directed much of the nation's narcotics traffic ... At the same time, a number of these mobsters, quietly and without publicity, defended and assisted the Jewish community. Despite their aversion to 'these black sheep of Israel,' many ordinary Jews appreciated the gangster's protection, whereas communal leaders accepted and sometimes solicited their aid.'" [ROCKAWAY, p. 215] Jewish mobster Mickey Cohen, for instance, was particularly active in raising money for the Jewish terrorist group IRGUN in its attacks against the British (and Arabs) in Palestine. [BIRMINGHAM, p. 281] "Just how aware, in 1947," says Stephen Birmingham, "American Jews were aware of the role of organized crime in the fight for an independent Israel is unclear. Probably most were not aware. Those who were, numbed by reports of the Holocaust that were at last appearing in the American media, preferred to look the other way or to take the attitude that the end justifies the means." [BIRMINGHAM, p. 284]
 
      The Jewish criminal underworld was also helpful to Israel in getting weapons to Israel in its early years. Yehuda Arazi, an arms purchaser for the Haganah organization, even made contacts with the Jewish-based Murder, Inc. gang, looking for help. "In my busines," said Arazis, "We can't be too fussy who we do business with. Sometimes they're not nice people."  [ROCKAWAY, p. 230] Other underworld contacts arranged for Israeli agents to conceal arms smuggling out of New York City. Jewish criminals even had links to the President of Panama who allowed illegal Israeli arms shipments to sail under the Panama flag. [ROCKAWAY, p. 231] In 1947 gangster Mickey Cohen helped fund-raising efforts for the terrorist Irgun gang fighting the British in Palestine.  Jewish criminals pooled about $120,000 for the Irgun cause." [ROCKAWAY, p. 232-233]   Jewish gangsters like Allie Tennebaum, says Rich Cohen, "did live to see the emergence of a strong Israel, and they must have seen it as something to rejoice over, proof that not everything the gangsters believed in was wrong." [KAUFMAN, G., p. 2]
 
     Susan Berman, daughter of gangster David Berman, wrote that her father was, as Jonathan Sarna sardonically notes, "a Jewish role model."  He was "extremely proud of being Jewish," notes Ms. Berman, " ... He felt that for a Jewish child to be properly brought up, there must be a synagogue, a rabbi, and a cantor in evidence." [SARNA, JEWISH, p. 55]  Another Jewish author, Rich Cohen, romanticizes gangster murder as some kind of affirmative act of redemption, delighting in Jewish violence so strongly that he can write:
 
       "When [Abe] Reles took a mark [murdered someone], he was not just
       ending a life: he was expressing the essential freedom of the Jew in
       America." [KAUFMAN, p. 2]
 
       "America," wrote another Jewish author, Albert Fried, about Jewish gangsters," is embracing Bugsy Siegel's vision; his martyrdom [he was murdered by other mobsters] was not in vain." [SARNA, JEWISH, p. 55]  "Bombast of this sort," complains Jonathan Sarna in a review of Fried's volume, "is obviously meant, in part, to pander to a potential Jewish audience, trying to fashion for it folk heroes of the same 'gentleman-bandit' type as non-Jews enjoy. Jewish criminals are thus portrayed as being proud of their heritage, big givers to charity, and strong supporters of the state of Israel." [SARNA, JEWISH, p. 55]
 
      Is this an artificial portrayal that Jewish gangsters were integral to, and respected by, many in Jewish neighborhoods, and loyal to the burgeoning state of Israel? After the assassination of gangster Big Jack Zelig in 1912, during his New York City funeral procession "the streets of all around Broome Street were jammed," said Jewish detective Abe Schoenfeld, "A choir consisting of twelve singers conducted by Cantor Goldberg of Newark, New Jersey, sang their Jewish hymns as the procession proceeded down Delaney Street to the bridge. There was an unbroken line of people covering the sidewalk watching the funeral. Only the funeral of Rabbi Joseph (a revered spiritual leader) surpassed this --the funeral of Jack Zelig." [ROCKAWAY, p. 217]
 
      In Chicago, the death of criminal Samuel "Nails" Morton attracted "five thousand Jewish mourners, including rabbis [who] accompanied Morton's hearse to the cemetery. Local reporters wanted to know why so many Jews would attend the funeral of a notorious gangster." [ROCKAWAY, p. 218] The reason, argues Robert Rockaway, is an old one: Jewish unity against non-Jewish enemies.
 
     Between both the Jewish criminal underworld and respectable Jewry, there were especially strong feelings of solidarity against anti-Jewish right-wing political movements. In the 1930s, for example, prominent gangster Meyer Lansky was solicited by a New York City judge and former Congressman, Nathan Perlman, and New York's most famous rabbi, Stephen Wise, to arrange violent attacks against pro-German groups in America. [ROCKAWAY, p. 220, COHEN, R., p. 190] ] As late as 1992 the Synagogue of the Suburban Torah in Livingston, New Jersey, sponsored a tribute occasion in honor of a Jewish gangster, Max "Puddy" Hinkes, who had decades earlier organized violent Jewish mobster attacks upon pro-Nazi sympathizers in the area. [ROCKAWAY, p. 223] In Minneapolis, "gambling czar" David Berman led Jewish underworld assaults upon pro-Nazi conferences in the 1930s [ROCKAWAY, p. 224]; likewise, Mickey Cohen instigated similar violence in Los Angeles. [ROCKAWAY, p. 227] For some Jews, Cohen's claim that he single-handedly beat up two Nazi-types locked in a jail cell with him is welcome legend. [COHEN, R., 1999, p. 191] Even Jack Ruby, assassin of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald,
 
      "with several friends, frequently attempted to disrupt rallies of the
      German-American Bund. One acquaintance reported that Ruby
      was responsible for 'cracking a few heads' of Bund members.
      Apparently he joined in this activity for ethnic rather than political
      reasons. The young men in the group were not organized adherents
      of any particular political creed, but were pool hall and tavern
      companions from Ruby's Jewish neighborhood who gathered on
      the spur of the moment to present opposition when they learned that
      pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic Bund movement was planning a meeting."
      [WARREN COMMISSION, 1964, p. 696]
 
     "From Arthur Rothstein and Meyer Lansky to their modern day successors in the Americas, Israel or the Soviet Union," says Joel Kotkin, "Jewish criminals have succeeded in everything from murder for hire to smuggling. Yet, even in crime, both emphasis and cultural preference lay with the successful use of sechel (smarts) rather than brute force." [KOTKIN]
 
      It is curious that Kotkin concedes a Jewish criminal tradition but accepts another mythology about modern Jewry - that Jews were/are smart, but never violent. One of the many Jewish mobsters recruited to help Israel was Bugsy Siegel. "Siegel," says Robert Rockaway, "remained enthusiastic about violence. Even after he became a major crime boss, he wanted to do the killing himself rather than simply arrange matters. This may explain his willingness to help Israel once he learned that Jews were willing to kill to achieve their state." [ROCKAWAY, p. 231] Other exceptionally prominent Jewish murderers in America's criminal underworld included Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, head of Murder, Inc., and "one of the most vicious gangsters in the annals of American crime ... Between sixty and eighty men died on Lepke's orders. They were burned in gasoline, buried in quicklime, shot, stabbed with ice picks, or garroted." [ROCKAWAY, 1993, p. 17] Lewis "Pretty" Amberg "was one of New York's best known killers, having 'rubbed out' from eighteen to a hundred men, no one knew for sure." [ROCKAWAY, 1993, p. 22] Charley Workman "was said to have killed twenty men ... he was so expert at assassination." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 193] Harry "Pittsburg Phil" Strauss was "perhaps the most famous professional killer in American gangster history ... [He] killed over 100 (some say over 400) men from the late 1920s to 1940s, making him the most prolific killer in New York." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 149]
"Detroit police," adds Robert Rockaway, "credit the [the all-Jewish Detroit] Purple Gang with over 500 killings, more than the Capone mob. This caused Herbert Ausbury, a historian of American crime, to call the gang 'the most efficiently organized gang of killers in the United States.'" [ROCKAWAY, R., 2001, p. 113-]

     Rich Cohen, who wrote a book about Jewish crime, noted his own family's reaction to what he discovered in his research:
 
      "They really had no idea just how bad [Jewish criminals] were. I didn't
       really know how violent they were, or how many people they killed
       or how many times they were arrested. You come to see them as
       people. Even within that world, some of them were worse than others.
       With some, it was just the situation. And some of them were just
       killers." [KERNICKY, p. 1E]
 
     Cohen also noted that some of New York's Jewish gangsters gathered at his grandmother's restaurant:
 
        "When I told [my grandmother] of my interest in writing about the
     restaurant and also about the gangsters and their table in back, her
     face clouded over, 'They'll kill you,' she said, 'These men, they're
     not like you. They'll kill a boy like you.'
         When I pointed out that these men --Reles, Strauss, Goldstein,
     Maione, Abbandando -- were long dead, she shook her head and
     said, 'They'll kill you.'" [COHEN, R., 1999, p. 35]
 
     Yet, adds Cohen, "When [Abe] Reles and the boys were hanging out at my grandparents' diner and the cops came by, my great-grandmother would hide their guns in the onions. She hated gangsters, but she hated people she thought hated Jews more." The endemic anti-Semites Cohen refers to here are generic policemen. [COHEN, R., p. 156]
 
      Jewish author Gloria Deutsch also notes today's Jewish blinders to their inglorious turn-of-the-century American past:
 
       "We were always conditioned to believe Jews didn't do these things, but
        here is Sandy Sadowsky [author of My Life in the Jewish Mafia] with
        her hair-raising stories of gangland murders, prostitution, rackets,
        strong-arm men -- the shtarkers who exacted revenge and protected
        their bosses -- and one wonders if believing in the myth of Jewish
        crimelessness (other than a spot of fraud here and there) wasn't
        anything more than a huge collective ostrich act." [DEUTSCH, p. 7]
 
      Jewish violent criminality today also goes against the popular myths of an absolute non-violence in the Jewish community. "The concept of Jewish convicts serving serious jail time," noted the Los Angeles Times in 1995, "runs counter to a popular stereotype that Jewish felons tend to be nonviolent types who serve their sentences in minimum security cells ... Jews outside of prison often find this [fact of Jewish murderers] hard to deal with." "The people who know about it are kind of amazed," Howard Cohn, a part-time rabbi at the Pennsylvania State Corrections Institute told the Times. "They can't believe there are really Jews in a prison like this." [BEALE, p. A5]
 
     In the most sensational genre, New York serial killer David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") was Jewish (he was adopted by a Jewish family as an infant), as was Joel Rifkind [EFTMIADES, p. 75] of Long Island, who into the early 1990s strangled to death at least 17 women, mostly New York prostitutes. "He went, picked up a prostitute, had sex with her, killed her, and dumped her." [EFTIMIADES, p. 90-91] In the 1920s, one of America's most sensational crimes, splashed all over the country's newspapers, was that of the Leopold and Loeb boys: "A pair of wealthy young members of Chicago's Jewish bourgeoisie in the early 20s, they kidnapped a young man, Bobby Franks, and murdered him as a kind of Nietzchean experiment; after their arrest, it was revealed that they had a sexual relationship too." [BARBOUR, D., 1998] At the time, it was popularized as "the crime of the century." [ABRAHAMSEN, D., 1983, p. 41] Amy Fisher, who received a great deal of press in New York tabloids as the "Long Island Lolita," was jailed in 1992 for shooting the wife of her lover. [PORTER, B., 5-11-99, p. A6]
 
      Even in an Orthodox religious community, in 1990, the Jewish Week ran an article about today's New York Satmar Chasidic community, "notorious for its violent actions against other Jewish groups [which] has imploded into a war against itself. Pitting supporters of the deceased Satmar Rabbi against supporters of his successor ... In the Brooklyn area of Williamsburg, home to more than 30,000 Satmars, four cars belonging to one faction were set on fire last week, while as many as 500 Satmars watched and cheered. Three Satmars, in one of the burning cars, needed to be rescued by police, who were also trying to control the Satmar onlookers." [MARK, J, Satmar]  
 
     Satmar violence against others has increasingly spread against non-Jewish neighbors. "Recent years," wrote Jonathan Mark in 1990, "have seen an explosion of tension between all chasidim and their Black and Hispanic neighbors. Most recently, Hispanic groups have complained that the Satmars act like they have the right of eminent domain over Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, where many Satmars reside. They have charged that chasidic men have sexually harassed non-Jewish women, that chasidic security patrols are actually racially motivated vigilantes." [MARK, SATMAR, p. 4]
 
       In the more overtly political context (and not Orthodox), in an entire book about assassinations (limited only to those deemed "political") carried out by Jews in Palestine/Israel from 1882 to 1988, Israeli scholar Nachum Ben David itemizes 91 cases of "assassination events" committed by Jews. (An assassination is defined by this author in his title as "a rhetorical device for justice"). Most murder victims were other Jews who were considered "traitors/collaborators/squealers/informers." [BEN DAVID, p. 418] "We are not dealing with a lone fanatic killer [in these cases]," stresses Ben David, "but with a premeditated planned act, committed by a group or by a representative of a group." [BEN YEHUDA, p. xxi]
 
     Aside from a possible volume about Jewish gangster murders, no doubt a similar volume could be created about Jewish assassinations under the auspices of Russian communism. Just before, and after, the creation of the Soviet state, assassinations by Jews, in one form or another, sometimes as secret police agents, are many. Mark Zborowsky, for instance, (a later immigrant to America where he became a university professor), in league with fellow Jews Naum Eitingon and Grigory Rabinovich, was instrumental in the operation to murder Trotsky's son, Lev Sedov. [VAKSBERG, p. 96]  Arkady Vaksberg notes another case of Jews murdering Jews:
 
     "The murder of two Jews whom Stalin hated [Efraim Sklyansky
     and Isiah Khurgin] had been organized by two other Jews, Kanner
     and Yagoda. Let us add that Kanner's assistant, Bombin, and
     Mekhil's assistants, Makhovev and Yuzhak, were all Jewish."
     [VAKSBERG, p. 28]
 
     In 1904, the Russian Minister of Interior, Vlacheslav Plehve, also fell to a Jewish assassin. [LINDEMANN, A., 1997, p. 296]  In 1906, in the Russian town of Grodno, "Jewish partisans assassinated the Russian district commander of police." In 1908, the chief of police from another town, Bialystok, came to Grodno. This time, "the Jew who tried to shoot him died in prison." [LACEY, p. 18]  In September of 1911 another Jewish assassin, Dmitry Bogrov, shot and killed Pyotr Stolypin, a prominent Russian official, at the Kiev Opera Theatre.  [SINGER, N, p. 2] Another Jewish would-be killer, Fanya Kaplan, also shot V. I. Lenin through the neck in a failed assassination attempt in early communist Russia, saying that he had "betrayed the Revolution." [LEVYTSKY, p. 29] On the same day, "the Cheka leader Uritsky was shot to death in August 1918 by a distinguished Jewish poet and army officer named Kannegiesser who 'was revolted by the fact that so many of the Bolsheviks were Jewish.'" [WEYL, N., 1968, p. 198]
 
     In 1926, another Jewish assassin, Shalom Schwartzbard, murdered Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petlura, in Paris. (Petlura was in exile from his homeland; he formerly led the Ukrainian army against Bolshevik attack). As noted earlier, a Jewish woman was also a member of the team that assassinated Tsar Alexander II. And, as noted before also, those who directed (and participated in) the murder of the royal family during the Russian Revolution were also largely Jewish. Even in Argentina, "on May Day 1909, during a workers' demonstration in Buenos Aires, a Jewish anarchist murdered a local police chief," thereby igniting anti-Jewish rioting. [SACHAR, H., 1985, p. 281]
 
     Elsewhere, during the rise of Nazi fascism in Germany, notes Franklin Ford, "paradoxically, during their movement's first years in power, Nazis were the victims, not the perpetrators of two sensational murders of German's residing in foreign parts." [FORD] In 1936 a Nazi official in Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff, was assassinated by a Jewish student, David Frankfurter. In 1938 Ernst von Rath, a German embassy official in Paris was killed by Herschel Grynszpan. The Nazis used this act as an excuse to respond with intensified savagery to the German Jewish population. Years earlier, in 1918, long before the Nazis came to power, a Russian Jew, Yakov Blumkin, assassinated the German ambassador to Moscow, Count Mirbach. [SUDOPLATOV, p. 189] Kurt Eisner, the Jewish prime minister of Bavaria, was also assassinated in 1918 by Count Arco Valley, "a young man who felt stigmatized by the fact that his mother was Jewish." [GRUNFELD, F., 1996, p. 123]'
 
    As Leon Schapiro notes about late 19th century Russia and the formation of a communist base there:
 
     "When Jews thronged into the party after 1881 the number of Jewish
     terrorists was very high. There were important Jewish terrorists, like
     Gershuni, for example, in the socialist revolutionary party which
     evolved during the present century as the heir of the 'People's Will'
     ... In more recent times one could cite the extensive Jewish
     participation in the savageries of the Red Terror of the Cheka [the
     secret police] -- or even events in Palestine." [SCHAPIRO, L., 1961,
     p. 152]
 
     In America, in 1892 famous Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman and two comrades decided to assassinate millionaire Henry Clay Frick. "In desperation [Goldman] tried whoreing [sic] (unsuccessfully) on 14th Street [in New York] to raise the money for a gun, and [Alexander] Berkman went to Pittsburgh to pull the trigger." [SHULMAN, A., 1970, p. 10] The assassination attempt by Berkman was carried out, but Frick survived his wound.
 
     Also in America, in 1974 Samuel Byck, another Jewish would-be assassin, embarked on a sensationally bizarre suicidal scheme to kill President Richard Nixon. He murdered a security guard at the Baltimore/Washington airport, stormed into a jet and demanded to the pilots that it take off and follow his orders. His plan was to crash the plane into the White House. Technically unable to accommodate him, Byck murdered the two pilots before he was, in turn, shot and killed by authorities. [CLARKE, J., p. 128-142]
 
     More famous, of course, in Texas, was Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubinstein), the (Jewish) murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who is believed to have killed John F. Kennedy. Ruby had interests in six Dallas-area strip-tease clubs. As Gerald Posner notes:
 
     "Ruby often resulted to violence with his employees, and lost the tip
     of his left index fingers when one bit it off during a scuffle. He beat
     one of his musicians with brass knuckles, cracked another's head
     with a blackjack, knocked another's teeth out, and put the club's
     handyman in the hospital with a severe beating. To avoid paying the
     club's cigarette girl $50 in back wages, he threatened to throw he
     down the stairs until she relented her claim ... He was not above
     attacking people from behind, kicking men in the groin or face once
     he had them to the floor, or even striking women ... He was often
     malicious, forcing beaten victims to crawl out of the club on hands
     and knees." [POSNER, p. 357]
 
     Ruby's killing of Oswald erased his looming testimony, as well as any other person's or organization's involvement in the most famous political assassination in American history. "In Dallas, Texas," noted Jewish scholar Barnet Litvinoff, "a man born with the name Rubinstein who subsequently eliminated its Jewish-sounding suffix took it upon himself to avenge the martyrdom of a President. He gave his Jewishness as one of the reasons for doing so." [LITVINOFF, B., p. 18]  At Ruby's trial, Patrick Dean (the police sergeant in charge of security where Oswald was killed) testified that shortly after the shooting he talked to Ruby about what he had just done. One of the reasons Ruby killed Oswald
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

Helphand

#3
June 27, 2010, 02:09:45 PM
Ah yes, how could I forget the "mishpuka mafia"!

If you go into the pub outside the Bethnal Green Underground Station in London you will find on the walls advertising flyers for boxing matchs from the early 1950s in which one or other of the krays were billed as pummellers.  All the names, including theirs, are of Jews (promoters etc).

This is a feast which I will enjoy at leisure.

CrackSmokeRepublican

#4
July 01, 2010, 02:01:59 AM
Found this book called "Lansky". It also describes Jewish Mobsters -- interesting to see the "International Banking" connections behind Lansky from the earliest years.

QuoteMob money flowed into the Bahamas, before passing to
Tibor Rosenbaum's International Credit Bank in Swtizerland.



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http://www.scribd.com/doc/3893328/Lansky


QuoteUnit # 6: The Development of Organized Crime and the Worlds of Meyer Lansky
Lansky's Inner Circle

The remarkable career of Meyer Lansky has been frequently retold, most
comprehensively by Hank Messick (1973), but a brief recapitulation might be
useful. Lansky was born in Grodno, Russia, as Maier Suchowljansky in 1902; and
with his family, he migrated to New York in 1911. By 1918 he had formed
acquaintanceships with Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. As with many others,
Prohibition gave him his greatest opportunity, and the "Bugs and Meyer" gang
rose to celebrity as a bootleggers' mercenary force. By the late 1920s, with Lepke
and Lucky, he pieced together the outlines of a bootlegging syndicate which
would be the dominant influence in organized crime for the next two decades.
After Prohibition, he and Siegel cast their eyes further afield -- to the West, the
Sunbelt, the Caribbean. In Miami, Lansky initiated the "Gold Coast" with its
hotels and casinos; in Cuba he created Batista's leisure empire; in Nevada and
California, Siegel used syndicate money to create a network of enterprises. Siegel
died in 1947, having tried to make himself an independent force, but Las Vegas
lived on to flourish and prosper. Lansky's business enterprises were now
sufficiently far- flung to withstand one setback like that which would be dealt him
by Fidel Castro. If Havana fell, he could turn back to Las Vegas or open new
enterprises in Haiti, the Bahamas, or even in London.

Attempting to describe Lansky's activities is an almost impossible task, even if we
could be sure which of the numerous ventures he is credited with he was in fact
involved in (some authors credit him virtually every financial scam since 1945).
So with this caveat, we can begin to describe Lansky's activities on behalf of
organized crime. First, let's take a look at the cast of characters which so
frequently are participants in Lansky-inspired activities.

Lansky associates can broadly be divided into two categories: 1) the old-time
veterans of the gangs of the 1920s and 1930s; and 2) newer associates, usually
relatively clean lawyers and businessmen. Lansky appears to have preserved his
friendships and business partnerships over many decades. For example, after the
hit on Bugsy Siegel, control of his Flamingo Hotel passed to three old Lansky
cronies: Moe Sedway from the Lower East Side of New York, Morris Rosen, and
"Gus" Greenbaum from Phoenix (Fried, 1980: 253-254). Some other examples of
these long-standing relationships are instructive.

The Minneapolis mob headed by Isadore Blumenfeld in the 1920s provided
Lansky with some of his most durable business partners. Blumenfeld's bother
"Yiddy Bloom" held substantial investments in Miami area real estate and
controlled a large portion of the New York gambling market (in the supposed
heartland of the "Five Families). Probably his best known financial coup was the
early 1970s stock fraud surrounding the artificial boosting of Magic Marker
shares. Bloom was joined in this by his son Jerold and some fifteen fellow
conspirators. In the background, no doubt were Lansky and other mutual friends
(Pennsylvania Crime Commission, 1980: 195-198).

Also from the Blumenfeld Mob was John Pullman, long used by Lansky in his
banking ventures for organized crime. Pullman had lived in Canada and
Switzerland and was an expert in the use of numbered accounts and dummy
corporations. He was the head of the "Bank of World Commerce" in Nassau
(Bahamas) in the 1960s, a highly effective "laundry" for Mob money
(Pennsylvania Crime Commission, 1980: 198; Fried, 1980: 276-277).

"Dandy" Phil Kastel was part of the 1930s move to the Sunbelt from the New York
mobs. In New Orleans, Kastel bridges the years from the early bootlegging and
gambling syndicates to Carlos Marcello, and through it all, he was never far from
Lansky's interests (Messick, 1969: 105, 205, 247).

"Doc" Stacher (born 1902), emerged from New Jersey organized crime to become
a leader in organized crime's western empire (Fried, 1980: 281-282; Cook and
Carmichael: 62).

Sydney Korshak (born 1907) was patronized early in his career by the Capone
mob. He enjoyed a very successful career representing labor unions and directed
the flow of Teamster money into the Nevada casinos. Korshak apparently has
accumulated enormous wealth from legitimate sources (Fried, 1980: 285-286).

Harry Teitelbaum was a prominent figure in the New York gangs of the 1920s,
who was also associated with the "Bugs and Meyer" and "L and G" gangs. By the
1950s, Teitelbaum was associated with Nig Rosen in a Lansky-inspired heroin
trafficking operation (Fried, 1980; Cook and Carmichael).

Sam Cohen was a Los Angeles bookmaker who was closely associated with the
Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas in the 1960s and accused with Lansky of operating a
major skim operation at the Fremont and Riviera casinos. With his sons Alan and
Joel, he was involved in some interesting deals in both Florida and the Pocono
Mountains of Pennsylvania. These real estate deals were conducted in association
with Alvin Malnik, Lansky's supposed "heir." Sam Cohen fits the pattern we have
seen so often, of continuity from the Prohibition gangs to the financial world of
the 1970s and 1980s. He moved from New York to Florida in the 1920s and
joined the exodus to Nevada in the 1950s (Messick, 1969: 326-331, 363;
Mollenhoff, 1973: 186).

Benjamin Siegelbaum was a financial manipulator very close to Lansky, who was
involved in a Swiss money-laundering operation in the 1960s called the Exchange
Bank of Geneva. Siegelbaum had been a partner of Nig Rosen, John Pullman,
Yiddy Bloom, and others in his career.


Other prominent figures in the Lansky orbit were newer and more respectable
figures. For example: Delbert Coleman came to prominence in the late 1960s in
the "Parvin-Dohrman" affair. In 1968 Coleman was associated with Korshak in an
attempt to purchase the Parvin-Dohrman casinos in Las Vegas -- and to float that
company's shares artificially. Coleman and Korshak were also involved in Bernie
Cornfeld's IOS scam (Fried, 1980: 282-286; Raw et al.: 229; Demaris, 1981: 247).
Another, Alvin Malnik (born 1932), was picked by some observers of organized
crime to be Lansky's probably successor. He first came to prominence in the early
1960s with the attempt to establish a gambling resort at Paradise Island in the
Bahamas. He had already established himself in the banking and real estate
businesses in Miami but soon become Lansky's public "front-man." The Paradise
Island venture led to the establishment of Resorts International, the
entertainment and gambling conglomerate which was the subject of intense law
enforcement scrutiny for years as charges of control by Meyer Lansky surfaced
(Mahan, 1980).

In the early 1970s, Malnik was also involved with Sam Cohen's sons in land deals
in Florida and the Poconos. Their companies -- COMAL and "Cove Associates" --
dealt with Caesar's World and the Teamsters Pension Fund, both institutions
which have attracted a substantial amount of law enforcement attention (Fried,
1980: 282-286; Pennsylvania Crime Commission, 1980: 252- 254). Finally, Allen
R. Glick (born 1942) of Pittsburgh attracted a great deal of attention when his
firm ARGENT (A.R. Glick Enterprises) seemingly came from nowhere to secure a
vast Teamsters loan (about $146 million). This enabled him to take over the
Stardust casino in Las Vegas and much of the plundered Parvin-Dohrman
company. In 1979 he was implicated in a skimming operation, which led to his
being forced to sell out for a comfortable profit (Fried, 1980: 284-285; Demaris,
1981: 318, 320, 365-366, 391, 445, 525-526). The operations which these and
other organized crime money- men were involved in recycled the profits of
organized crime and in turn generated immense new profits -- which are,
however, almost wholly clean.

Las Vegas

"Bugs and Meyer" pioneered Las Vegas on behalf of east coast organized crime
interests, investing money from New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Cleveland,
and other areas. However, in each case it was Lansky who managed and
coordinated the enterprise. It would be incorrect to suggest that other mobs, such
as the "Cleveland Four," were acting as Lansky servants or as members of some
kind of "Jewish Mafia", but only that their move to Las Vegas was conditioned by
Lansky's enterprises.


The first great hotel in Las Vegas was Siegel's Flamingo (1946). After his murder,
the hotel passed to three old Lansky cronies: Sedway, Rosen and Greenbaum.
Gus Greenbaum would later manage the Riviera, but he fell out with his Chicago
based employers. He and his wife were murdered in 1958. Thereafter, new
casinos appeared in swift succession.

The Thunderbird (1948) was fronted by a former Lieutenant- governor of
Nevada but was really a Lansky operation.
The Desert Inn (1950) was run by the Cleveland Four.
The Sands (1952) was owned by an awesome list of organized crime backers
including Lansky, Adonis, Costello, Stacher, Ed Levinson, Kid Cann, and Frank
Sinatra.
The Sahara (1952) was backed by Chicago, Cleveland, and New York "money
men."
The Riviera was backed by the Chicago mob.
The Dunes was opened by representatives of Raymond Patriarca of Rhode
Island.

The Stardust (1958) was a Dalitz operation, as was the Sundance.
The Tropicana (1957) was backed by Kastel and Costello.
The Palace was opened by Patriarca, Chicago mob investors, Lansky, and
Teamster Union money. Teamster money also flowed into Caesar's Palace, the
Landmark, the Dunes, and the Fremont (Hammer, 1975: 224-225).

By the late 1950s, the casinos were doing an admirable job of making old-time
gangsters quite respectable -- particularly in the case of the old Cleveland Four.
For instance, Cleveland Four veteran Lou Rothkopf's nephew Bernie was a
legitimate businessman, director of the MGM Grand Hotel (Demaris, 1981: 56-
59). Moreover, the casinos provided wonderful opportunities for "skimming" to
defraud the IRS. In a major scandal at the Flamingo in the 1960s, Lansky was
indicted along with partners Morris Lansburgh and Sam Cohen. Estimated
"skimmed" profits amounted to several million dollars a year. By the 1970s, the
casinos were equally far from having purged themselves of mob interests. Nick
Civella and the Kansas City mob apparently controlled the Tropicana and the
Dunes, in the latter case through Jimmy Hoffa's attorney Morris Shenker. At the
Aladdin, Delbert Coleman and Ed Torres were believed to be representing
someone who wished to remain hidden.
The ownership of a Las Vegas casino is often frighteningly complex. However, we
might recount the history of one casino in order to give some idea of the sort of
problems involved. In the mid-1950s, the Parvin-Dohrman company bought the
Flamingo. In the 1960s, it bought the Fremont and sold the Flamingo to a
consortium headed by Morris Lansburgh, with Lansky receiving a finder's fee.
The Parvin-Dohrman empire then expanded to include the Aladdin, and also the
Stardust, purchased from Moe Dalitz. In 1968 Parvin agreed to sell out to Delbert
Coleman with Sidney Korshak acting as intermediary (and getting a $500,000
finder's fee for the transaction). At the end of 1968, while the sale went through,
Coleman and Korshak succeeded in artificially boosting the Parvin-Dohrman
stock from $35 to $141 a share with the aid of financial impresarios like Bernie
Cornfield of Investors' Overseas Services. After the inevitable collapse, Korshak
and Coleman pocketed their profits and Parvin-Dohrman changed its name to
Recrion (Fried, 1980: 282-286).

At this point, we run into the brilliant young businessman Allen Glick. We
mentioned earlier that in the early 1970s, Glick set up his own company,
"Argent," in Las Vegas and began raising a series of not insubstantial loans from
the Teamsters' Pension Fund. By 1976 Glick owed the Teamsters about $146
million. In 1973 this largess enabled him to take over all the shares of Recrion
and become a major gambling magnate in Nevada. But it was scarcely a good
investment. Under Glick's management, the Stardust tried too hard at the
skimming game. Some $3.5 million was skimmed from its slot machines between
1974 and 1976 -- a scale which was regarded as much too blatant by Argent's
entertainment director, Chicago-based gambler Frank Rosenthal. By 1979, the
Nevada Gaming Commission ordered Glick to sell -- which he did, to friends of
Moe Dalitz. He sold for a $2 million down-payment, the assumption of $92
million in debts, and another $66 million to be paid from the casino's earnings by
1991. Presumably, Lansky was behind at least some of this skullduggery -- but by
this stage, he was extremely adept at hiding his hand.
The Move to Florida

Organized crime's move into Florida came at least as early as the western
migration. Al Capone himself was one of the first to see possibilities in Florida for
gambling and tourism. By the 1930s, mob money was moving into real estate and
into ventures like Tropical Park Race Track in Coral Gables (a joint new York-
Chicago operation), and especially Lansky's Colonial Inn. The development of
Miami Beach coincided with that of Las Vegas. For instance, in the 1940s, the
Wofford Hotel in Miami was the Florida base for both Lansky and Costello; and
the proprietor, Tatum Wofford, was friendly with rising stars Richard Nixon and
Bebe Rebozo. Rebozo himself was close to the Cleveland syndicate. By the 1950s,
organized crime had a well developed role in Miami hotels like the Sands and the
Grand. By the 1980s, some estimates claimed that roughly half of Miami Beach
hotels were connected to mob money through Lansky or associates like
Lansburgh and Yiddy Bloom (Moldea, 1978: 105-107).

Florida also provided an extremely valuable banking structure which could be
used by organized criminals from all parts of the country. This was unraveled (at
 least in part) by investigations surrounding the Watergate affair of the 1970s. For
example, the scandal of Nixon's "Winter White House" revealed some interesting
connections concerning the "Keyes Realty Company." This company was named
in the Kefauver hearings for its role as intermediary in bribes between organized
crime and Dade County political officials. In the 1940s, it played a major role in
developing Miami gambling. In 1948 this company transferred a Key Biscayne
property to ANSAN, "a shadowy Cuban investment group" in which syndicate
money was allegedly involved. This linked the Cuban ancien regime (such as Jose
Aleman) with Batista and Luciano allies. Later, control of this real estate passed
to two new groups: the Teamster's Union Pension Fund and Lansky's Miami
National Bank. In 1967 this land passed to Nixon and Bebe Rebozo at bargain
rates. One of the Watergate burglars, a Cuban exile, was a vice president of Keyes
Realty.

The Miami National Bank is an interesting case study in itself. In 1958, it was
taken over for the Teamsters, using Lou Poller as a front. Poller specialized in
"laundering" money, and, not surprisingly, he owed his primary loyalty to
Lansky. Organized crime money now reemerged in the form of real estate,
apartment buildings, hotels, motels, and mobile home companies. The Teamsters
acquired this bank through Arthur Desser, another link between Hoffa and
Lansky, and it was Desser who made the 1967 Key Biscayne sale to Nixon and
Rebozo (Cook and Carmichael; Scott et al., 1976: 356-358; Hinckle and Turner,
1981).

By the 1970s, a "subculture of banks in southern Florida" was linked by
"interlocking directorates and major investors" (Freed, 1980: 141). Besides the
Miami National, there were the Bank of Miami Beach, International Bank of
Miami, the Key Biscayne Bank, and Southeast First. Federal prosecutors linked
Southeast First to the intelligence community and especially to the 1976 murder
of Chilean exile Orlando Letelier. These banks have also been associated with the
Lansky and Luciano mobs and the Cleveland, Boston, and Las Vegas crime
organizations.

Cuba

Cuba represented the first major international venture of organized crime
(Messick, 1967; 1973; Blakey and Billings, 1981: 228-232; Hinckle and Turner,
1981). Lansky had acquired the Hotel Nacional in Havana as early as 1937, and
this gave his friends a foundation on which to build after Batista's coup of 1952.
Casinos now appeared rapidly -- Lansky's Havana Riviera, run by the Cellini
brothers; the Havana Hilton; the San Souci; the Capri; the Commodore; the
Tropicana. At the Nacional, Cleveland money was the key investment, but the
operator was Jake Lansky, and in each case there were massive opportunities for
skimming. Castro's revolution came as a disaster for American crime, but
Lansky's circle of investors was already on the lookout for opportunities further
afield.

 The Banks

At least by the 1950s, organized crime was learning the importance of clean
money; no longer could gangsters depend on the loyal silence of bankers as in the
bootlegging days. Lansky learned the techniques of "laundering" profits,
especially through Swiss numbered accounts. Nig Rosen used such Swiss bank
accounts for his heroin "connection" in the 1950s. Soon, Lansky and his
associates established their own banks. Malnik established the Bank of World
Commerce in Nassau. Mob money flowed into the Bahamas, before passing to
Tibor Rosenbaum's International Credit Bank in Swtizerland. Then, it could
return to the U.S. for reinvestment. At every stage in these operations, we find
familiar faces: the Bank of World Commerce has headed by John Pullman, and
investors included Ed Levinson. In turn, Levinson and Siegelbaum were active in
other Swiss "laundry shops," the Exchange Bank of Geneva. Finally, we have
observed the growth of the Florida network.

These banks could provide a clean base for further ventures. For instance, it was
Rosenbaum's bank which supported Cornfeld's IOS. Again, the Overseas
Investors Corporation gave Robert Vesco his opportunity to plunder a fortune.
Both the Vesco and Rosenbaum ventures collapsed by the 1970s. They certainly
have their successors, although full details will only become apparent when they
in turn reach their inevitable date with fiscal reality (Raw et. al., 1971; Fried,
1980: 276-286; Clark and Tighe, 1975; Hutchinson, 1974; Messick, 1969: 201-
209).

The Bahamas

Summarizing the complex saga of gambling in the Bahamas is no easy task. But
briefly in the 1950s, the success of Lansky's ventures in Cuba led to attempts to
establish similar gambling enterprises elsewhere. The frontmen for the Lansky
enterprise were Wallace Groves and Louis Chesler. They attempted to develop a
"freeport" in the Bahamas; and in the early 1960s, Lansky interests were
established at the Freeport Monte Carlo casino. This casino was managed by two
of Lansky's longest-established gambling technicians, Dino and Eddie Cellini
(Mahon, 1980).

Also in the late 1950s, Huntingdon Hartford was attempting to found a casino at
Hog Island -- promptly rechristened "Paradise Island." However, he found
considerable difficulty in getting a gambling license from the governmental
minister concerned, Sir Stafford Sands. At this point Alvin Malnik entered the
picture. Malnik made a very tempting offer: Paradise Island would be bought out
by a firm called Mary Carter Paint, and Lansky would see to obtaining a gambling
license. The dating of this deal in the early 1960s was important; obviously,
Lansky was seeking another Caribbean haven to replace Castro's Cuba. He
brought with him old gambling partners like Max Courtney, "Trigger Mike"
Coppola, Frank Ritter, and the Cellini brothers.

 From the mid-1960s, events happened rapidly; in 1966 Hartford and his adviser,
Seymour Alter, sold Paradise Island to Mary Carter Paint. In 1967 the Paradise
Island casino opened with a glittering assembly of guests -- including Richard
Nixon, and in 1968 Mary Carter Paint changed its name to "Resorts
International." However, the pressure was also intensifying, especially after
Sands' party was defeated in the 1967 election. Lansky involvement in the casino
was blatant, represented as it was by the presence of Dino and Eddie Cellini --
both veterans of gambling operations in Kentucky and Cuba. In the U.S., the
Organized Crime Strike Force of the Justice Department was appalled by the
Lansky operation and began to release information about it to the media.
However, it was the Watergate affair which led to the greatest embarrassments. It
was suggested that Resorts International had been linked to Bebe Rebozo, that
Resorts and Robert Vesco had been laundering Nixon campaign money, and that
Seymour Alter had been the bagman for Vesco, Rebozo, and Resorts. Clouds were
gathering over Paradise Island but not sufficiently to prevent Resorts
International from acquiring a gambling license in New Jersey (Mahon, 1980;
Cook and Carmichael).
International Activities
Tax Havens. Organized crime learned long ago that it was useful to register

companies and place investments in foreign nations with fairly lenient laws on
the transfer of money. Examples include Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the
Bahamas, Panama, the Cayman Islands, and the Netherlands Antilles. There
would certainly be other countries where investigators have been slow to look for
"front" companies, such as the Irish Republic.
The Industrialized World. Organized crime money has flowed freely into

Canada -- Sturman money through Morton Goss in Toronto and Lansky's
interests through John Pullman. Also, Canada's convenience for drug
importation has made cities like Montreal open organized crime territory. Quasi-
political organizations like the Quebec FLQ dabble in the Miami drug trade.

Britain has proved an equally tempting target since the legalization of gambling
there in 1960. Lansky, the Cellinis, Angelo Bruno, and others all made
exploratory journeys there in the 1960s. The British government closed casinos
because of alleged organized crime involvement -- the Colony Club in 1966, and
Penthouse magazine's interests in 1971. British gangsters like the Krays also tried
to link up with U.S. colleagues -- apparently both Bruno and Lansky. In England
as in Holland, Sturman has made major incursions into the pornography trade
(Blum and Gerth, 1978).

When Australia was discussing the legalization of gambling in the mid-1970s, the
Bally corporation attempted to gain a foothold, but extensive connections with
Dino Cellini and Gerry Catena led to their exclusion (Blum and Gerth, 1978).
Bally was much more successful in its ventures in Sweden (Block and Chambliss,
1981: 135-142)


South America.

In Latin America we find the most consistent pattern, hardly
surprising if we look at the prosperous cities frequented by Americans in the
1930s and 1940s -- Havana, Rio, Buenos Aires. In addition to Cuba, there is clear
evidence of organized crime involvement in a number of other countries.

Mexico.

In the National Lottery scandal of 1947-1949, Mexican senators were
bought by mob money. Also, there is an interesting connection through Gulf and
Western Corporation to Mexican operations. In 1970 the Illinois Racing
Commission found that Gulf and Western was a partner with Philip Levin (a Gulf
and Western director) in the Acapulco Towers Hotel. This hotel was run by Moe
Morton, who entertained there in 1969 an impressive guest list:

From Miami: Lansky
From Las Vegas: Dean Shendel, Moe Dalitz, Hyman Segal
From Montreal: Tony Roma
From Chicago: Sydney Korshak, Delbert Coleman

In 1970, Acapulco was the center for a further meeting involving Lansky, Levin,
Korshak, and Newton Mandell of Gulf and Western (Gulf and Western was also
associated with Michele Sindona, the Italian banker whose collapse in the late
1970s caused major damage to the Vatican's finances) (Lernoux, 1980: 240). Gulf
and Western was also the corporation that U.S. military intervention in 1965
brought to a dominant role in the small Dominican Republic, where it enjoys the
rights of a feudal barony. It is also widely active, for instance, in Brazil.
Honduras. Leading army officers were involved with organized crime in making
the country a bridge for the cocaine traffic.

Guatemala. Guatemalan government officials provided Carlos Marcello with
phony nationality papers after his expulsion from the U.S. by the Kennedy Justice
Department.

Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Both of these countries were CIA fiefdoms in the

1950s and 1960s and were heavily involved in anti-Castro plots. Those CIA
ventures involved dabbling by organized crime, primarily through Marcello and
Trafficante. Dictators like Stroessner (Paraguay) and the Somozas were easy
targets for organized crime blandishments.
Argentina. Lansky's South American drug trade was coordinated by August
Ricord from Argentina (Chambliss, 1978: 165)

Other Financiers

 Moe Dalitz: In a FBI wiretap, the New Jersey gangster "Gyp" De Carlo

remarked, "There's only two Jews recognized in the whole country today. That's
Meyer and ... Moe Dalitz." We have already discussed Dalitz' role in the
"Cleveland Four" and his move into Las Vegas, especially his involvement at the
Stardust and the Desert Inn. However, in the mid-1960s, income tax trouble and
heat from the Casino Control Commission forced him to sell his enterprises. With
the help of a large Teamster Union loan ($57 million between 1964 and 1972),
Dalitz established an extremely posh country club at La Costa, north of San
Diego. We have already discussed the consequences of his sale of the Stardust to
Parvin-Dohrman, but in 1979 an old associate of his bought back these casinos
after the departure of Allen Glick. Like Lansky, Dalitz has proceeded from the
bootlegging underworld to very substantial prosperity. In 1980 a Forbes article
estimated his wealth in the $100-150 million bracket, second only to Lansky
among the alumni of organized crime. It also cited his extremely healthy
investment portfolio -- including Detroit Steel and the Rock Island Railroad
(Cook and Carmichael).
Frank Erikson: Born in 1896, Frank Erikson was one of the most important

organized crime figures in New York with a career stretching from the 1920s to
the 1950s. In addition to his New York operations, he owned "points" in Meyer
Lansky's Colonial Inn in Florida; he leased the rights to a horse parlor at the
Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami; he owned a piece of another Florida casino, the
Farm, and he ran bookmaking operations which covered the Florida race tracks
(Kefauver, 1951: 811-830). In addition, Erikson ran an extensive bookmaking
operation throughout New Jersey. Erikson had legitimate holdings, such as the
Park Avenue Theater and the Anderson Galleries in New York City. One of his
more surprising holdings was Bruil Petroleum, which had vast oil interests in
Texas. Erikson was a close friend and associate of Frank Costello, with whom he
probably shared control of New York bookmaking. In addition, Erikson was in
business with Meyer Lansky, "Dandy" Phil Kastel, Willie Moretti, Charles
Fischetti, Joe Massei (from Detroit), Willie Bischoff, and Little Augie Pisano.
Despite Erikson's rather successful efforts to shield himself from too much public
scrutiny, it is clear that he played a major role in the organizing of crime
networks in New York and Florida, he was certainly someone with considerable
financial resources to be brought to that organization.
The Teamsters and the Dorfmans: Anyone studying organized crime will

have frequent call to look at the activities of the Teamsters' Central States
Pension Fund. This fund -- it passed the billion dollar mark in 1972 -- has served
as an organized crime bank. It has largely financed the development of Las Vegas
and of gambling and leisure in Florida and California; it financed the La Costa
Country Club and the "Cove Associates" deal; it finances real estate deals, and
played a large role in the deals which resulted in removing President Nixon from
office. From the 1950s to the 1970s, this fund was largely directed by Paul
Dorfman and his stepson, Allen. Let us trace the progression of events by which
this vast fortune passed into the hands of men accessible to organized crime
interests.



In the 1930s, the teamsters secured their position by providing employers with a
tame and amenable alternative to the radical CIO and the Communists. From the
early 1930s, the leadership was closely tied to gangsters -- especially in Detroit;
but by the late 1940s, Jimmy Hoffa had consummated the organized crime -
Teamster Union alliance. Hoffa's former mistress became friendly with Moe
Dalitz, and this contact gave him a whole series of Mob friends -- the Pressers in
Cleveland and the Chicago mob. From the latter, Hoffa became close to Paul
Dorfman, an associate of Anthony ("Big Tuna") Accardo. Dorfman had a
distinguished record in the Capone mob as a labor racketeer. In the 1920s and
1930s, he had led the corrupt Chicago Wastehandlers Union after the murder of a
predecessor (a murder allegedly carried out by Jack Ruby) (Moldea, 1978: 49-50,
55-58, 86-88, 141-49; Demaris, 1981: 321-326, 342, 378, 402).

In 1951 the Teamsters set up the Central States Health and Welfare Fund, the
insurance portion of which was run through a company managed by Paul's
inexperienced stepson, Allen Dorfman (born 1923). Allen learned quickly. He
guided the investments both of the Teamsters and of Hoffa personally. They
moved into oil, stocks, and especially real estate -- one unusually corrupt deal
involved the Sun Valley retirement community, a deal which would later result in
legal trouble for Hoffa. In 1955 the union established a new Central States South
Eastern and South-Western Pension Fund, run almost entirely by the Dorfmans.

Allen did extremely well. His own Union Casualty Agency had now become a
substantial conglomerate. It owned insurance companies, oil interests, and slum
housing; it held real estate -- even a resort in the Virgin Islands. From the 1950s,
the alliance with Lou Poller's Miami National Bank gave the Dorfmans a
"laundry" akin to Lansky's. The move into the Sunbelt was reflected by friendship
with Dave Yaras and through him with Carlos Marcello and Santo Trafficante.
Allen Dorfman was a man of great importance, close to the Chicago and
Cleveland syndicates, to Las Vegas and all the varied interests the Teamsters had
funded. Allen himself was succeeded in the Teamsters by Alvin Baron as "Asset
Manager." Who had benefitted from the Dorfman's largess? When the old
trustees relinquished their control of the Central States Pension Fund in 1976, the
chief recipients were familiarfaces (Cook and Carmichael):

Allen Glick -- $140 million
Morris Shenker -- $135 million
Moe Dalitz -- $93 million
Alvin Malnik -- $20 million

Ed Levinson:In 1963 a Senate inquiry into misdeeds by Bobby Baker was
interrupted by protests from Baker's attorney, Edward Bennett Williams.
Apparently, Baker's conversations with a gambler named Levinson had been

 wiretapped, and Williams protested that this constituted a violation of Baker's civil rights. However, he had misunderstood one major point: the target of the investigation was not the wayward politician; it was the powerful, but little- known gambler.

Ed Levinson was born in Chicago and had operated as a gambler in Detroit,
Miami, and quasi-"open cities" like Newport or Covington (both in Kentucky). In
1952 he had joined the mob migration to Nevada. He bought into the Sands, then
the Flamingo, and later the Fremont. This he accomplished with the help of a
Teamster loan, and he began a sizable skim operation of between one and two
million dollars a year in the early 1960s. Meanwhile his brother Louis kept a
foothold in the Cleveland syndicate's territory of northern Kentucky (Messick,
1969: 348-362; Mollenhoff, 1973: 104, 114-116; 187-189).

Levinson was extremely well-connected both with the legitimate and the criminal worlds. "Above ground" his connections were so good as to secure access to secret FBI wiretaps while he contributed generously to Nevada politicians at all levels of government. In the underworld, he was close to Lansky faithfuls like Doc Stacher and Benjamin Siegelbaum while he participated in the Bank of World Commerce and the Exchange Bank of Geneva.

In 1962 the IRS began a large-scale investigation of Las Vegas "skimming." This
resulted in 1967 in convictions for the Fremont and for the Riviera - a Sam Cohen
operation. Levinson was fined a token sum but his notoriety was primarily due to
the Baker link. It is interesting that so major an organized crime figure should
only be revealed to the public gaze because of a friendship with a corrupt
politician stupid enough to associate publicly with the likes of Levinson and
Siegelbaum. How many other Levinsons are there who have avoided such a fatal
mistake (Mollenhoff, 1973)? In short, like Dalitz, Levinson seems to be another
example of the rise from organized crime to corporate business.
Reuben Sturman: Sturman is a figure of considerable wealth and influence,

whom frequent reports have linked to organized crime. This does not necessarily mean that he was himself a criminal -- though his pornography trade floated on the margins of legality, and he was convicted on both RICO and tax charges in the late 1980s. Nor does it mean that he is in any sense a servant of organized crime. He is merely an interesting example of the sort of rich and powerful figure who is extremely hard to fit into traditional models of organized crime. By contrast, he can easily be reconciled with theories which emphasize the coordinating role of capital and finance.

Sturman was born in 1924. By the late 1970s, he owned perhaps 800 retail
pornography stores in the U.S., often through very complex patterns of concealed
ownership. In England he worked in close collaboration with local organized
criminals, like the Holloway family, a well-established pornography group. On
the European continent, his chief foothold was through a firm called Intex
Nederland, a key distributor of pornographic videos. A subsidiary of Intex is
 Video-Rama, which distributed pornographic videos throughout Europe and to
the extremely lucrative Middle Eastern market of Cairo, Beirut, Kuwait City, and
Riyadh. Firms like Intex, Video-Rama, and their associated companies (like First
Columbus Trust) are registered in the Netherlands Antilles, a territory whose
laws of business secrecy make the Swiss look ostentatious (Pennsylvania Crime
Commission, 1980: 118-121).

What we have here is a worldwide pornography syndicate -- not a monopoly
perhaps, but an enormously powerful conglomerate -- and a syndicate whose
representatives were all but unknown to the general public. Who had ever heard
of Sturman or his representatives, like his son David Sturman, like Scott Dorman,
or Frank Bilitz of Baltimore? In the Miporn investigation (1977- 1980), the FBI
found Sturman associated with mobsters like Robert DiBernardo and Teddy
Gaswirth (Pennsylvania Crime Commission, 1980: 118).

 Were there Others?

Was Lansky the only operator on his scale, or were there others? If so, how
many? Three? Fifty? It's difficult to say. We can only indicate briefly that there
seem to be others much less publicized, whose command of wealth is awesome.
For instance, there is no doubt that when Doc Stacher fled to Israel, he retired a
rich man (worth at least $100 million). John Pullman may well have accumulated
the same sort of fortune over the years. Even if they were this wealthy, did they
act as independent financiers? It seems that these are vital questions to answer in
order to appreciate the nature and scale of organized crime.

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Testimony of Jose Aleman mentioning Santos Trafficante :

QuoteTESTIMONY OF JOSE ALEMAN

Mr. PREYER. Mr. Blakey, do I understand that Mr. Aleman also wishes to invoke rule 6?
Mr. BLAKEY. No, Mr. Chairman, he has changed his mind and he will permit both cameras and other recording devices to be operated.
Mr. PREYER. At this time the committee calls Mr. Aleman.
Mr. Aleman, do you solemnly swear the evidence you are about to give this committee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. ALEMAN. I do.
Mr. PREYER. The Chair recognizes Mr. Cornwell for the questioning.
Mr. CORNWELL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. ALEMAN. Where were you born?
Mr. ALEMAN. In Havana.
Mr. CORNWELL. Havana, Cuba?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. PREYER. I don't believe Mr. Aleman's microphone is on, or put it in front of you a little closer to you.
Mr. ALEMAN. Thank you.
Mr. CORNWELL. What was the occupation of your father in Cuba?
Mr. ALEMAN. He was Minister of Education.
Mr. CORNWELL. Under President Prio?
Mr. ALEMAN. Under President Grau.
Mr. CORNWELL. And how long did your family remain in Cuba?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, until 1947, they came to Miami, and then my father died in 1950.
Mr. CORNWELL. After that, did you remain in Cuba?
Mr. ALEMAN. I was a student at Miami University and then I remained in Cuba for some time.
Mr. CORNWELL. Apart from education in Miami, then you continued to reside in Cuba until approximately what year?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, 1960.
Mr. CORNWELL. And during that period of time, prior to leaving Cuba, you were active in efforts to overthrow Batista; is that correct?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. What basically was the nature of your role in those attempts?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, we were fighting against a dictatorship, totalitarian government, and we formed part of a few underground activities in Havana.
Mr. CORNWELL. Among other things, I understand that you were one of the leaders of the famous attempt on the Presidential Palace in 1957, is that correct?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. After leaving Cuba, did you continue to be active in attempts during that period to overthrow Castro?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. And, very briefly, what was the nature of your role in such activities?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, I tried many things, because in Cuba, before I had tried to do something against Communist totalitarian regime of Fidel Castro. Most of the activities, they didn't have any success whatsoever, because I was arrested many times, and there were so many things over there that I had to leave the island, the pressure I had.
Mr. CORNWELL. In 1963, where were you living and what was your occupation?
Mr. ALEMAN. I was living in the Scott Bryan. I had that property of mine.
Mr. CORNWELL. You were living---
Mr. ALEMAN. That is a hotel. Scott Bryan Hotel.
Mr. CORNWELL. You were living in Miami and you owned and managed the Scott Bryan Hotel?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. CORNWELL. During approximately that period of time did you have occasion to meet Santos Trafficante?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes, I did. Mr. CORNWELL. Who introduced you to him or how did that introduction come about?
Mr. ALEMAN. Mr. George Nobregas came to me after we had some other conversations with some other individuals and there were American businessmen, and those American businessmen had lost a lot of property in Cuba, then he came to me and he said Santos wants to meet you. I some way refused because I had to testify against Santos' people in 1960.
Mr. CORNWELL. All right, who was Mr. George Nobregas?
Mr. ALEMAN. Mr. Nobregas was in all the activities against the Batista regime and also against Fidel Castro.
Mr. CORNWELL. And do you have any knowledge of how it was that he may have known Santos Trafficante prior to that time?
Mr. ALEMAN. The possibility that while we were smuggling arms in the 1950's they had all the connections with other Mafia people and they came about to maybe he was connected with them.
Mr. CORNWELL. So you have told us that when the suggestion was first made that you should meet with Trafficante, you were reluctant to do do, the reason being that you had previously testified against associates of his in a trial, is that correct?
Mr. ALEMAN. Correct.
Mr. CORNWELL. Who were those associates?
Mr. ALEMAN. Sammy Mannarino and Norman Rothman.
Mr. CORNWELL. The trial involved criminal charges and those individuals were convicted; is that correct?
Mr. ALEMAN. I believe so. I am not very sure about it. I left the Chicago grand jury in a hurry and I later on had some threats from them and that was it. I don't know, I didn't even ask about a trial.
Mr. CORNWELL. All right. In spite of your reluctance, however, did you ultimately go to one or more meetings with Trafficante.
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes, I did. I had various meetings with Santos Trafficante.
Mr. CORNWELL. And roughly during what period of time did the meetings take place?
Mr. ALEMAN. July, June, 1963, around that time.
Mr. CORNWELL. Where were the meetings?
Mr. ALEMAN. One of them, the meeting was at Junior's Restaurant. Another was at the Scott Bryan, and I don't know how many there were, three.
Mr. CORNWELL. The name of the restaurant was Junior's?
Mr. ALEMAN. Junior's Restaurant.
Mr. CORNWELL. And the other meetings occurred at the Scott Bryan Hotel?
Mr. ALEMAN. Correct.
Mr. CORNWELL. What was your objective in attending the meetings with Trafficante?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, Mr. George Nobregas came to me and said that J.J. Vila, director of public relations in the city of Miami, wanted to see me because he had a message from President Bosch of the Dominican Republic and President Bosch was a man that was very grateful to my father and that he wanted to talk to me about bringing to the Dominican Republic a lot of businessmen and whoever wanted to invest there. Mr. CORNWELL. So you understood that it was a request from people with business interests?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. That you assist in the introduction?
Mr. ALEMAN. Excuse me. At the same time, he said that one of the possible individuals that was interested in going was Santos Trafficante, going to the Dominican Republic.
Mr. CORNWELL. All right, well, that then explains what you were told about Santos Trafficante's reason for wanting to talk to you, he wanted, I take it, to see if there was a possiblility of you achieving some introduction with President Juan Bosch?
Mr. ALEMAN. That is correct.
Mr. CORNWELL. What was your reason for attending the meeting? Did you have a different motive or objective?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, other than the objectives of trying to overthrow Castro. He talked to me about, in favor of, the contracts in Dominican Republic, that I had a project, condominium project, and he wanted to facilitate the means for a loan with the Teamsters Union.
Mr. CORNWELL. So he suggested he could help you by securing a Teamster's loan for a condominium project you were interested in?
Mr. ALEMAN. Correct.
Mr. CORNWELL. Now, it has been reported that at one of these meetings, or on one of these occasions on which you met and spoke with Trafficante, you and he engaged in a political discussion or a discussion of the Kennedy administration.
Mr. ALEMAN. He did most of the talking. I mean, he was talking about President Kennedy and this is a thing that I want to bring to this committee that---
Mr. CORNWELL. Before you tell us what he said, if you wouldn't mind, tell us where the conversation occurred?
Mr. ALEMAN. At the Scott Bryan Hotel.
Mr. CORNWELL. And in what type of room? Was it a type of room that a guest would use?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes; a pretty large room.
Mr. CORNWELL. On this occasion, how many persons were present?
Mr. ALEMAN. There was Mr. Macho Gener, Nobregas, separated from the sofa and a chair, Santos Trafficante was sitting on the chair, and I was sitting on the sofa.
Mr. CORNWELL. It would be like a normal hotel room?
Mr. ALEMAN. It was a apartment, a large apartment.
Mr. CORNWELL. All right, Trafficante was sitting in like a comfortable leisure chair, that sort of thing?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. CORNWELL. What were the other two men doing? Macho--
Mr. ALEMAN. Macho Gener was leaving the room at various times and Nobregas was separating like he didn't want to participate in the conversation.
Mr. CORNWELL. And apart from the part of the conversation that I want to have you explain in detail, why did this particular meeting occur, was it part of the general conversations over the business interests you have already described or was it of some other nature? Mr. ALEMAN. He talked various things. One of the things he said Hoffa could not secure the loan so far because he had a lot of troubles with the brothers Kennedy.
Mr. CORNWELL. OK. So, in other words, he was providing information on the same subjects that you had previously told us about, the possibility of a loan through Hoffa and the Teamsters for the condominium project?
Mr. ALEMAN. Correct.
Mr. CORNWELL. Then, the conversation, was it a relatively brief one or did it cover a long period of time on this occasion?
Mr. ALEMAN. It covered about 3 or 4 hours.
Mr. CORNWELL. Was it primarily related to business or was it a general discussion just between two people who sit down and talk?
Mr. ALEMAN. It was a general conversation.
Mr. CORNWELL. And during this period of time tell us specifically what was discussed, what was said by Mr. Trafficante, and what, if anything, you said in reply with respect to Hoffa and the political scene?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, he was very much upset. He said that the way the President was getting into Hoffa, a man of the workers, blue collar, and a man that was a very hard-working individual, and that at the same time he was very much upset, I mean, he thought for a long period of time.
Mr. CORNWELL. Very much upset what Kennedy had been doing to Hoffa, and he felt sympathetic toward Hoffa describing him as a man----
Mr. ALEMAN. Very much.
Mr. CORNWELL [continuing]. Of the workers?
Mr. ALEMAN. Very much.
Mr. CORNWELL. Go ahead. What did the conversation lead to next?
Mr. ALEMAN. At one point he said, "You see this man, he is not going to be reelected, there is no doubt about it, he has been the man that has been giving everybody a lot of troubles and he is not going to be reelected" and I don't know why he said that to me or anything. Then he said---
Mr. CORNWELL. Did you make a reply to that?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes; I said he has a lot of Democrats backing him and so far it looks very well. I don't see anything that he is not going to be reelected or anything.
Mr. CORNWELL. And what, if anything, did he reply?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, he said he is not going to be reelected, you don't understand me, he is going to be hit.
Mr. CORNWELL. Prior to that, had you heard the expression "he is going to be hit," the term before? Are you familiar with that expression?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, it is going to be hit with a lot of votes from the Republicans or anything. I didn't have any idea at that moment, that is why I want to bring this to the committee. I don't have no possible idea why he said it.
Mr. CORNWELL. Have you ever heard anyone use the expression "he is going to be hit" on any other occasion? Mr. ALEMAN. Not whatsoever. I mean, maybe if you are talking about something, I mean--that is all. I never, I never thought at that moment anything whatsoever.
Mr. CORNWELL. The question is, Have you ever heard that expression, "he is going to be hit"?
Mr. ALEMAN. In what respect?
Mr. CORNWELL. On any other occasion?
Mr. ALEMAN. No.
Mr. CORNWELL. In any of your activities in the attempts on Batista or Castro, any of dealings with Norman Rothman, or your Sam Mannarino, have you heard this expression?
Mr. ALEMAN. That was 1957, 1956, when we were trying to smuggle arms.
Mr. CORNWELL. OK, you had heard it during that period?
Mr. ALEMAN. No, no.
Mr. CORNWELL. The question is had you heard that expression on other occasions?
Mr. ALEMAN. No, no.
Mr. CORNWELL. Well, then, if you hadn't when Santos Trafficante said he is not going to be reelected, he is going to be hit, did you ask him to elaborate on that phrase?
Mr. ALEMAN. To the best of my recollection I thought that he was maybe saying at that time that he could provide a loan and that he was making a story or he was upset about that, and then he just made an alibi about the loan or something like that. That was my thought about it.
Mr. CORNWELL. The question was, when he used the expression did you ask him to elaborate, to explain the exact meaning of his phrase, "he is going to be hit"?
Mr. ALEMAN. He was talking, and I didn't, I wasn't interrupting for about a long time, and he kept on talking and talking and talking, and that is it.
Mr. CORNWELL. So the answer is you didn't ask him to explain?
Mr. ALEMAN. I didn't ask him anything. I just took it like somebody saying something, and I took it as you know, like he is talking about a lot of foolishness.
Mr. CORNWELL. OK, let me see if I can get what is in your mind, then, as to the specific details of the conversation. You first brought up Mr. Hoffa and the pressure that Kennedy was placing on him. He then suggested that Kennedy would not be reelected. You interjected an opposing view that you thought--
Mr. ALEMAN. No way, whatsoever?
Mr. CORNWELL. No?
Mr. ALEMAN. No way, whatsoever.
Mr. CORNWELL. You said --
Mr. ALEMAN. I respect the President of the United States and in no way whatsoever tried to say anything that I could take that the President was going to have some problem or anything like that, he just said maybe he is going to be, the way he said that word, I interpreted with a lot of votes from the Republican Party or something like that.
Mr. CORNWELL. After Mr. Trafficante indicated that he wouldn't be elected, you said something in reply to the effect that you thought he would be, is that accurate? Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. And at which point Mr. Trafficante replied no, he is going to be hit. Now, you told us he went on speaking at that point, is that correct?
Mr. ALEMAN. You see, this happened 15 years ago and to the best of my recollection I think that is the word he put. I am not saying positively that, I mean, the wording he put was something he is not going to make it, something like that, that is it, he is not going to be reelected. In a long conversation like that I didn't pay too much attention on it.
Mr. CORNWELL. Let me ask, Mr. Chairman, if we might show the witness JFK exhibit F-602?
Mr. FITHIAN [now presiding]. Permission granted. [A document was handed to the witness by the clerk.]
Mr. CORNWELL. This is a newspaper article which we have marked for identification.
Mr. FITHIAN. Does counsel wish that to be entered into the record?
Mr. CORNWELL. We would request that it be entered into the record at this time.
Mr. FITHIAN. Without objection, it shall be ordered. [The above referred to JFK exhibit F-602 follows:]

JFK EXHIBIT F-602

Mr. CORNWELL. It is an article written by Mr. Crile.
Mr. ALEMAN. Correct.
Mr. CORNWELL. Do you know Mr. Crile?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. I would like to direct your attention to the paragraph on the second page of the article, about halfway or threequarters of the way down the middle column on the page, beginning, "Aleman says that Trafficante spent most of evening philosophizing," and then it goes on. I would ask if you would read that paragraph to yourself, just read it to yourself.
Mr. ALEMAN. I can't read it to me because I can't find it very well.
Mr. CORNWELL. You can't find that paragraph?
Mr. ALEMAN. No, no, I can see it.
Mr. CORNWELL. It is the second column from the left, about two-thirds of the way down.
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. Just read it to yourself. Let me ask you---
Mr. ALEMAN. The letters are too small. Will you please read it to me?
Mr. CORNWELL. Have you seen that article before?
Mr. ALEMAN. I seen the article but the letters are very small.
Mr. CORNWELL. Let me ask you, you said you know Mr. Crile. Did he interview you on the same subjects that we have asked you about here today?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. Over what period of time?
Mr. ALEMAN. Many days. Many days.
Mr. CORNWELL. Prior to publishing the article, did he call you and advise you that he was going to do so, to print the matters that you had provided to him?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes; he said he was going to publish under Washington Post an article.
Mr. CORNWELL. Now, would you have had any reason to make a statement to Mr. Crile which was not accurate? Would you have had any motive or reason for making such a statement?
Mr. ALEMAN. One of the things that I couldn't answer was the visit of Santos Trafficante.
Mr. CORNWELL. Excuse me, what was the answer to that question, if you wouldn't mind?
Mr. ALEMAN. I couldn't answer why Mr. Santos Trafficante came to me to go to Dominican Republic, while at that time we had a conversation with some American businessmen that had properties in Cuba, and those American businessmen said they were going to try and they wanted me to do something against the Government of Castro, and then later on, these people said that they were going to give me a loan on a condominium project that they wanted to give me the loan and at the same time, this loan was going to be financed by, and that is why, the only reason why I went to talk to Trafficante because later on the thing about the Dominican Republic.
Mr. CORNWELL. Yes; those type of things, of course, are set forth in Mr. Crile's article, as you recall?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes; we discussed many things on Crile's article. I can tell you one thing. Trying to remember after 15 years all these things that occur is very difficult. There is no doubt about that.
Mr. CORNWELL. I understand. But, let me ask you if I might, to go back to the earlier question, would there have been any reason for you to make any statements to Mr. Crile which were not accurate? Would you have had any reason for doing that?
Mr. ALEMAN. Well, the context of a newspaper changes. You are talking to a newspaperman and he is asking questions and he will ask questions in such a way that when I saw the article, many things, you know, I was trying to recall.
Mr. CORNWELL. OK.
Mr. ALEMAN. I was trying to recall a few things, I was trying to recall one time that he said, how many times have you talked to the FBI about these meetings between Santos Trafficante and the Dominican Republic, and I said, well, I told the FBI the following things.
Mr. CORNWELL. So you are suggesting that perhaps the material in the article may not be exactly correct, that it might be somewhat taken out of context, or is that the suggestion?
Mr. ALEMAN. It is not a matter of taken out of context, sir, it is a matter that when you are trying to recall. He said, we want to sit down and recall everything that happened, and I was trying to recall the many opportunities that I went to the FBI, to inform, about many things that were happening during those meetings.
Mr. CORNWELL. What I really want to find out is what the best memory you have on the subject is. OK, so let's start with the article. Is the article an accurate reflection of what you stated to
Mr. Crile?
Mr. ALEMAN. Some of the things I say are out of context.
Mr. CORNWELL. They are out of context?
Mr. ALEMAN. In some way, I mean.
Mr. CORNWELL. OK. You know Mr. Crile, correct?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. Is it your basic impression that he printed or at least attempted to print the material accurately based on what you said to him?
Mr. ALEMAN. He might have, but they didn't come--then when I start thinking, and trying to remember, and trying to remember everything, it wasn't in context.
Mr. CORNWELL. OK. Let me then show you what has been marked for identification as JFK exhibit F-601. May we have this exhibit admitted into evidence, Mr. Chairman?
Mr. FITHIAN. Without objection, so ordered.
[The above-referred to JFK exhibit F-601 follows:]

JFK EXHIBIT F-601

Mr. CORNWELL. Mr. Aleman, that is an excerpt from a report of an investigator of ours, Gaeton Fonzi, dated March 12, 1977, and I would like to specifically direct your attention to the first paragraph which reads as follows: "Aleman said in more than one way that Trafficante did specifically tell him that Kennedy is "going to get hit." He also specifically confirmed the quote that Crile printed in the Washington Post on this point: "Aleman says that he argued that Kennedy would get reelected and Trafficante replied, 'no, Jose he is going to be hit." Let me ask you, did you meet with Mr. Fonzi on that occasion?
Mr. ALEMAN. I met with Mr. Fonzi on that occasion. Now, after the first article, when I talked all those things about trying to remember, I had the doubt that Mr. Trafficante was in some way trying to get Cubela from Cuba, he was trying to get other people, and during that time, when that happened, Mr. Cubela, after I talked to him many times to do something against the regime of Castro, he didn't do anything, and in some way he was trying to bring this man, and that is why I brought to the point that these things were happening and it was very important to pay attention of the possibility of Castro being mixed with Santos Trafficante because in Miami everybody talks that the Bolita is being paid, used to be repaid to the G-2 agents by Santos Trafficante and G-2 agents in Cuba used to be, I mean in Miami used to be paid that way, and I wanted for them to pay attention to this. That is the main reason I brought all these.
Mr. CORNWELL. What we would like to attempt to do first is to determine, to the best of your memory, what the words were that Trafficante used in this conversation, and the interview report which we have just placed into evidence indicates that you did specifically confirmed that, to the best of your memory, those were the exact words, when you were interviewed in March 1977. Is that report accurate?
Mr. ALEMAN. The report, I, again, will tell you, that I was trying to recollect things from a long period of time and I was talking about Castro maybe being involved with Cubela, with Papina Ronjo, in a lot of things.
Mr. CORNWELL. I understand that part. Specifically with respect to the first paragraph where it states that you specifically confirmed that with respect to Kennedy, Trafficante stated, "No, Jose, he is going to be hit," is that an accurate---
Mr. ALEMAN. Because if this man was in Cuba, arrested, Santos Trafficante, then Garcia Banjo, Cubela and all these people tried to get him out of jail and he had connections with the Castro government, there is no doubt that you have to pay attention to all this. That's the main reason why I am bringing this to the committee because no doubt that at that very moment, Santos Trafficante, I believe, has a lot of connections with the regime of Fidel Castro, There's no doubt about that in my mind.
Mr. FITHIAN. If the Chair could interrupt----
Mr. ALEMAN. Even after some time I heard the opinion of a Communist talking that he didn't have nothing whatsoever.
Mr. FITHIAN. Will the witness suspend for just 1 minute?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. FITHIAN. The Chair is informed, Mr. Aleman, that there is an important vote on the floor and all members wanted to hear what you had to say. So I am going to ask for a 10-minute recess. Prior to that, however, the security service, the marshals, have asked that all members of the audience and the press remain seated and in place at this time until the witness is escorted from the room. We would ask then that the witness and the marshals do that at this time and then we will declare the recess. [Mr. Aleman left the room with the marshals.]
Mr. FITHIAN. The committee will recess for 10 minutes. [A brief recess was taken.]
Mr. PREYER [presiding]. The committee will come to order. Let me remind everyone in the hearing room that the U.S. marshal service has asked that all of you remain seated when the witness is brought into the hearing room and when he leaves the hearing room. We will ask that the witness be brought in at this time, and we will ask everyone in the hearing room to remain seated. I understand that it may take about a minute for the witness to be brought in. [Mr. Aleman was escorted into the hearing room.]
Mr. PREYER. Would you have your seat, Mr. Aleman. Mr. Cornwell is recognized.
Mr. CORNWELL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Aleman.
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. Returning to the subject matter that we were discussing with you before the break.
Mr. ALEMAN. I beg your pardon?
Mr. CORNWELL. I say, returning to the same subject matter.
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. Do you have any reason to believe that the interview report of Mr. Fonzi is inaccurate?
Mr. ALEMAN. When you try to recollect for 15 years something, I am trying to--it is impossible to--the wording is impossible to reconstruct.
Mr. CORNWELL. I meant to ask you though, do you have any reason to believe that Mr. Fonzi did not accurately reflect in his report what you said to him? Did he accurately write it down?
Mr. ALEMAN. It wasn't Mr. Fonzi, the one that wrote the article; it was Mr. Crile.
Mr. CORNWELL. Yes, sir, but the last exhibit was prepared by our investigator Mr. Fonzi.
Mr. ALEMAN. OK.
Mr. CORNWELL. Did Mr. Fonzi accurately write that---
Mr. ALEMAN. I have to read it again in order to---
Mr. CORNWELL. May we show him the exhibit one more time? This is JFK exhibit F-601.
Mr. ALEMAN. This is taken out of the article of the Washington Post.
Mr. CORNWELL. Yes, sir, in effect, it asks you if the article accurate, if you did say the things that are reported in the article
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes, that's the reason why I asked for protection for coming over here because at the time I was, later on after a things had happened in the United States, very much worried. I bring this to the attention of this committee that I had a puzzle and I couldn't understand what was it. That's the main reason brought this to the committee.
Mr. CORNWELL. Simply, for the record, Mr. Chairman, let me that JFK exhibit F-603 be entered into the record.
Mr. PREYER. Without objection, JFK exhibit F-603 is admitted into the record at this point.

JFK EXHIBIT F-603

Mr. CORNWELL. And may we show a a copy of it to the witness, please? Mr. Aleman, on the front page of the exhibit there is a paragraph which is titled "Summary" and reads as follows: Aleman confirms reports that Santos Trafficante personally told him that President Kennedy was going to be hit. Aleman indicates that Santos Trafficante made clear to him implicitly that he was not guessing about the killing. Rather, he was giving the impression that he knew Kennedy was going to be killed.
Mr. ALEMAN. No way. No way, whatsoever. You can be reassured, that I always in my life fought for democracy.
Mr. CORNWELL. I don't think you understood the paragraph
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes, but----
Mr. CORNWELL. We understand---
Mr. ALEMAN. Rather than he was giving the impression that he knew Kennedy was going to be killed.
Mr. CORNWELL. That's what Santos Trafficante---
Mr. ALEMAN. That he was not guessing about the killing.
Mr. CORNWELL. That Trafficante was----
Mr. ALEMAN. Aleman confirms the report that Santos personally told him that President Kennedy was going to be hit.
Mr. CORNWELL. Yes, sir In other words that's a recitation of what Trafficante----
Mr. ALEMAN. Aleman indicates that Santos Trafficante made clear to him implicitly that he was not guessing about the killing.
Mr. CORNWELL. He, meaning Trafficante, was not guessing, and the second part again is not a reference to you, it is a reference that you stated that he, meaning Trafficante, was giving the impression--
Mr. ALEMAN. Let me tell to this committee the following thing: By no way possible you can think that after all the suffering in Cuba and all the struggle to put a democratic country, and after all the struggle we've been fighting against Castro and after all the problems that I can see that has come to our country, I, if, in any way, I would have thought that the context at that time was that something was going to happen in that respect, I would have immediately advised the proper authorities about it.
Mr. CORNWELL. And didn't you do so?
Mr. ALEMAN. I talked in some way to members of the FBI about what was going on in the conversation, and I told them that something wrong was in some way, the wording that Hoffa and these--I went to the FBI and I informed something about that type of conversation. Like I previously had been informing the FBI about the meetings with Santos Trafficante.
Mr. CORNWELL. And when Trafficante and--
Mr. ALEMAN. Because when all these things were happening, I was informing the FBI about that.
Mr. CORNWELL. And I believe you previously told me that, is this accurate, that you did specifically tell the FBI about the comments of Trafficante on this occasion?
Mr. ALEMAN. We talked in some way, and whatever is about this thing in the FBI files must be the exact thing because now I am trying to recollect things that happened 15 years ago. You must understand that.
Mr. CORNWELL. What we want to do is----
Mr. ALEMAN. So after so many years, trying to recollect what went on, and that I had in some way a worry, I said. what happened here, what transpired here, this is why I was bringing this.
Mr. CORNWELL. The comments that were made to you by Trafficante worried you, is that correct?
Mr. ALEMAN. After all the years that have passed by after seeing all the things, it worried me.
Mr. CORNWELL. In fact, immediately after the assassination, the FBI came to you and asked you again about the previous comments you had overheard, didn't they?
Mr. ALEMAN. Whatever transpired during that period of time, I informed the FBI about it.
Mr. CORNWELL. They came to you after the assassination and asked you again to tell in more detail the nature of the comments; is that correct?
Mr. ALEMAN. They asked something in that concern.
Mr. CORNWELL. In the previous reports of your recollections of this event, as in your testimony today, the phrase has occurred that "Kennedy will be hit." Today you offered, for the first time, an explanation that that might have been a reference to the fact he will be hit'-
Mr. ALEMAN. No, no, no, no, because when that happened, I had informed the FBI about it. So later on they told me, Jose, he was a loner, you must not be concerned about anything, no problem whatsoever.
Mr. CORNWELL. The FBI said, don't worry about these comments, Lee Harvey Oswald was a loner.
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes; after the Warren Committee.
Mr. CORNWELL. You offered the explanation, though, earlier in your testimony today that the phrase, "he's going to be hit," might have been understood by you to mean hit with a number of votes?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. That explanation appears in no prior report of your statements that we have been able to find, and I would like to, in that vein, direct your attention to yesterday.
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. You arrived at the airport from Miami, is that correct?
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. My staff has reported that when they picked you up, took you to the hotel
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. CORNWELL. You expressed alarm or concern that there was no protection provided for you.
Mr. ALEMAN. Surely. I mean this article have been for a long period of time. Undoubtedly, Santos Trafficante have seen it. I think he came to the committee some time. Didn't he come to the committee? I am asking you that question.
Mr. CORNWELL. They won't let me answer that question. I'm sorry. But at any rate, go ahead. I didn't mean to interrupt.
Mr. ALEMAN. In reference to this. So all this time, I have been very much worried, I am very much concerned about my safety. After I brought this Washington Post, and that was about 2 years and 3 months ago, and I have been worried. I sold my business, I been in my home because I mean Santos Trafficante can try to do anything at any moment. The DGI in Cuba tried to do something to me and when I was called to come over here, I was subpenaed to come over here, I was very much worried that I didn't have the protection, and I still believe that the DGI and Santos Trafficante could try to do something to me. There's no doubt about that. The article was there. I wanted a reaction. Let's see what the reaction has been.
Mr. CORNWELL. I have no further questions. Thank you.
Mr. ALEMAN. The reaction, you can see in the letter of Fidel Castro, in the tapes that he brought to this committee, in the days of suffering of Fidel Castro that he has been a few days very much concerned and talking all the time about that he hasn't done anything whatsoever against the President of the United States. And I don't believe it. There is some connection between Santos Trafficante and the Cuban Government. There's no doubt about that. I came very brave here to this committee to talk that I had been concerned about this and you should pay attention, as patiently I have been with you people, and react.
Mr. CORNWELL. Thank you. I have no further questions.
Mr. ALEMAN. Thank you.
Mr. PREYER. The Chair recognizes Mr. Edgar for such time as he may consume.
Mr. EDGAR. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Aleman, I noticed this morning you are accompanied by marshals.
Mr. ALEMAN. Yes.
Mr. EDGAR. Would you indicate to the committee at whose request the marshal service has been provided?
Mr. ALEMAN. My request.
Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Chairman, I had a number of questions that I wanted to pose to this particular witness, and I have gone over many of them last evening and have several pages of questions that I would like to pursue with the witness, by in light of the drastic change in his testimony which has been at least somewhat apparent this morning and somewhat related to his feelings of fear, I think that there would be little good served to ask those specific questions at this time. And so I will yield back the balance of my time and ask those questions at a later date.
Mr. PREYER. Are there any further questions from members of the panel?
Mr. Cornwell, any further questions from you?
Mr. CORNWELL. No, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. PREYER. Mr. Aleman, under the committee rules, every witness is entitled to take 5 minutes at the end of his testimony and the questioning to make any statement that he may care to make by way of clarifying his testimony or explaining it further or just making any statement that you care to make. If there is anything further you wish to say about this matter at this time, the Chair will recognize you for 5 minutes.
Mr. ALEMAN. Thank you, sir. I don't want to make no statement. That's all.
Mr. PREYER. Thank you, Mr. Aleman. At this time, the committee will excuse Mr. Aleman. Let me again caution everyone in the hearing room to remain seated as Mr. Aleman is excorted from the hearing room.
Mr. Aleman, I would like to say to you, from the committee's knowledge of your background and despite anything you may have said here today, the committee has respect for your background and the bravery, the bravery you have shown in the past. We appreciate you being here with us today.
Mr. ALEMAN. Thank you

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After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

CrackSmokeRepublican

#6
July 01, 2010, 02:31:36 AM
QuoteFinal Judgment's case in this regard is principally built on the key significance of Meyer Lansky as the real power player in American organized crime in the 1950s and 1960s, the superior of Giancana, Roselli, Marcello, Mickey Cohen, Mickey Weiner, Moe Dalitz, Frank Costello, and others previously mentioned as participants in the Kennedy conspiracy. In turn, Lansky's role as a committed Zionist and fund-raiser for the State of Israel involved direct, palpable links between his criminal empire, his Miami-based banks, and the Banque de Credit International (BCI) in Geneva, Switzerland. This latter entity served as the European-based money laundering center for Mr. Lansky's global activities. BCI in turn, was headed up by an Israeli banker, Tibor Rosenbaum, former Director for Finances and Supply for the Israeli Mossad. Piper then demonstrates that BCI was a chief share holder in a Rome-based corporation called CMC/Permindex, whose chairman of the board was none other than Louis M. Bloomfield of Montreal, Canada, a major fund-raiser for Israel and known asset for Israeli intelligence. CMC/Permindex, in turn, proves to be a major point of intersection which brings the shadowy Bloomfield into direct or indirect contact with Clay Shaw (the chief target of the Jim Garrison JFK investigation in New Orleans), Guy Banister, James Jesus Angleton, FBI Division 5 chief William Sullivan (who spearheaded the FBI investigation for the Warren Commission and served as FBI liaison and friend of Angleton), ex-Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras (provable gun-running business partner of Oswald assassin Jack Ruby), Ernest Israel Japhet (chairman and president of Israeli Bank Leumi), Shaul Eisenberg (a key figure in Israel's nuclear bomb development and participant with Rosenbaum in the Swiss-Israel Trade Bank), elements of the French nationalist Secret Army Organization (OAS), CIA agent Theodore Shackley (the CIA's chief of station in Miami during the CIA-Lansky assassination plots against Fidel Castro), and Abe Feinberg, New York Jewish businessman used by Ben Gurion as the liaison for secret meetings with President Kennedy to resolve the dispute of the latter two over Dimona. It is thus the BCI and CMC/Permindex players and links which Piper employs to show that the players, alliances, and assets were firmly in place to bring those with motive, means, and opportunity together in a plot which culminated in Dallas.

Secondarily, Piper buttresses his case by showing the results for Israel subsequent to the tragedy in Dallas in November of 1963. The removal of Kennedy brought an end to American demands for IAEA inspections of the Israeli nuclear program, and the ascension to the White House of Lyndon Johnson, whose long ties to Meyer Lansky and Carlos Marcello had assisted the barefoot boy of the Texas Hill Country in his arrival at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. More significantly, Johnson's arrival in the Oval Office represented a sea change in American Middle Eastern policy, establishing for Piper the Israel-First direction of every American Chief Executive from LBJ onward, to the detriment of the independence of the American government from the undue influence of the Israeli lobby, the maintenance of regional peace and stability in the most dangerous area of the globe, and any vestiges of hope for positive American political relationships with the Islamic world.

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After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

CrackSmokeRepublican

#7
July 02, 2010, 10:13:22 PM
From DBS's site:

QuoteJanuary 2007
Russian Jewish Organized Crime

By Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
Mike La Sorte is a professor emeritus (SUNY) and writes extensively on a variety of subjects.
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"The Italian mafia has a singular link between Italy and America. The Russian Mafiya is more international. The Russians seem crazier than do the Italians. While the mafia uses violence to punish enemies, the Mafiya will kill the enemy, his wife, his children. They kill as a warning and for the sheer joy of tyrannical violence. Because the Russian mob is mostly Jewish, it is a political hot potato, especially in the New York area. In general, state and federal law enforcement agencies were loath to go after Russian mobsters, instead devoting their energies to bagging Italian wise guys, a traditional route to promotion." (Robert I. Friedman. Red Mafiya. How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America, 2000)

     The ethnic makeup of the Mafiya leadership is largely Russian or Georgian (64%). Among the remaining capomafiyas are found Armenians, Azerbaijani, Uzbeks, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Abkhazians, and Chechens.

     They administer their own form of justice based on a code of conduct and have their own tribunals. The capos are generally youthful, the majority being between thirty and fifty years of age. Only a few exceed 60 years of age. These are persons who do not fear imprisonment, are incorrigible and primed for anything.

     The origins of the Mafiya are obscure. Thieves existed, of course, even before the reign of Peter the Great (1625-1725). In Moscow alone there were as many as 30,000, but they were not organized into clans. More or less organized criminality arose in the 1700s. The fraternal order vor v vzakonye, or "Thieves-in-Law", with the attributes of organized crime, is a recent phenomenon and was not evident before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. By the 1930s, the vors had evolved and were making common cause with Soviet political dissidents.

     After the 1917 revolution and the fall of Czarism, the enemies of the new order sought out the "Thieves in Law" for their own purposes. This integration of alienated young men resulted in a counterculture with a code of behavior that went against traditional values, including not accepting employment or forming a family or doing military service. In short, their ideological quarrel with the State was total, including a rather rigid version of the Sicilian code of silence and honor, omertà.

     The alliance of common criminals and young intellectuals was doomed to fail from the outset. The two different mentalities—one for social reformation, the other committed to an antisocial criminality—could not find a middle ground. During the 1930s the counterculture began to disintegrate. The delinquents formed their own autonomous groups, guided by "learned" bosses called urki. From this history arose the vor v vzakonye that became the foundation for today's much more sophisticated Red Mafiya.

     Much has been made of the extreme barbarity of the Mafiya. Conciliation is not one of its strengths. "They'll take out a whole family. But first they'll torture victims to send out a message—they'll cut off fingers, use acid, decapitate heads. It's gruesome." The mobsters have an unquenchable thirst for blood and money, extorting even their own kind, whom they feel are especially vulnerable. In North America, as one example, they have targeted Russian-born hockey players. "The Mafiya has made the sports business one of its sources of revenue. Bribes, extortions, and killings are common."

     The vors consider themselves as the aristocracy of the underworld because they made their "bones" the hard way. Many of the older generation was recruited while serving sentences in the infamous work camps of the Siberian Gulug prison system. The clans have a structure and culture similar to the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, but there is no overall Mafiya Commission. A similar hierarchy of command appears to be non-existent; no capoclan accepts orders from others, certainly not a supreme capo. Interclan cooperation does occur when bands unite for international ventures, often in alliance with non-Russian mafias. The so-called "cocaine triangle," for instance, involves a combination of Colombian drug barons, Israel-Jewish money launderers and Jewish-Russian mafiosi. The Columbians funnel the cash, the Israelis launder it, and the Russians provide the security and muscle.

     Despite the variations from the Sicilian model, the Mafiya has the characteristics of many other criminal societies. There is the use of intimidation as an instrument of social mobility and entrepreneurial profit, and the imposition of the no-squealing rule in those communities where the mafia holds sway. Also the co-involvement of important segments of the political class and socio-economic institutions in illegal activity (e.g., influence peddling, bribing, and money recycling), and the ability to significantly impact the legitimate economy through the infusion of vast sums of ill-gotten gains.

     It is a convenience to use the term Red Mafiya to refer to what is in fact a complex phenomenon. Just as we speak generically of the Italian mafia when there are actually five with different histories, rather than using the singular word "Mafiya," the more correct designation is the plural "Mafiyas." Nor are they all Russian or based on an ethnic affiliation. There is the Georgian mafia, the Uzbec mafia, Ukrainian mafia, the mafia of Vladivostok, one in Kazan, the mafia of the ex-agents of the KGB, the mafias of oil and wood, the mafia of financial institutions, and others with specific functions and skills. There are many easy pickings in the former republics of the Soviet Union.

     By one estimate, during Mikhail Gorbachev's regime organized crime enterprises in the Soviet Union increased from 785 to 5691. After the dissolution of the USSR and the downfall of communism, an economic, moral and social vacuum was created that allowed opportunists to take full advantage of the resulting chaos. The Solntsevskaya mob, named after a Moscow suburb, is one of the largest. Such mafias engage in systematic extortion schemes, which have become a way of life in the Russian capital. "You have to grease the palm or your business will have a short life span." Profitable institutions are the most susceptible to a shakedown. A show of wealth is an invitation for a less-than-friendly visit. Estimates indicate that a goodly number of private businesses and most state-owned companies and banks have been infiltrated by the mafioso plague

     The Mafiya has become transnational in scope. Russian émigré colonies in New York's Brighton Beach district, in Israel, Paris and London are nesting criminal gangs. Some have gone as far afield as Sri Lanka for prostitution and gambling.

     In the early 1970s the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev opened the gates to limited emigration of Soviet Jews. Among them were hard-core criminals who had served prison sentences in the Gulag. In the two-year period 1972-73, more than 66,000 Russian Jews left their homeland, most of them going initially to Israel. The Israeli "law of return" made it easy for the Jews of the Diaspora to receive Israeli citizenship. Also non-Jews have purchased forged documents that declared them Jews to gain entrance to the country.

     The criminals among them quickly entered the Israeli underworld and made their presence known by investing their laundered wealth in Israeli real estate, businesses and banks. By all accounts, Israel has become a haven for the Mafiya and a base for their international operations. Mob moguls are in residence as respected businessmen. Jonathan Winer, a former State Department expert, states categorically that, "There is not a major Russian organized crime figure whom we are tracking who does not carry an Israeli passport."

     The Brighton Beach Boys. In the 1970s more than 40,000 Russian Jews settled in Brighton Beach, a former working-class Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. One of those immigrants was Marat Balagula, who was born in Orenburg, Russia, in 1943. Once settled in Brighton Beach, he turned the Organizatsiya, the local mob, into a very profitable transnational criminal society. His most spectacular success was in the gasoline bootlegging business. Marat gained control of fourteen gas stations, formed two fuel dealerships and proceeded to buy gas from a corporation owned by the Nayfeld brothers. This setup provided a scheme to avoid paying billions of dollars of gasoline taxes.

     The scam worked as follows: Taxes were collected at the pump. Instead of turning the cash over to the government, the money was pocketed and disappeared without knowledge of the IRS. A number of shell distributorships were the key. One of these companies would purchase a shipment of gasoline and then make a number of paper transfers. At the end of the blizzard of paper would be a dummy company that was required to pay the taxes to the IRS. Instead, the company sold the gas at cut-rate prices to independent retailers with a phony invoice, stamped "All Taxes Paid." By the time the IRS came looking for the taxes due, the revenue agents were stymied by a twisting paper trail that lead to a dead end. There was no one person or company that could be held accountable for the non-payment.

     The scam became the biggest tax heist in U. S. history. The Russian mobsters by 1985 had stolen as much as $8 billion a year by evading state and federal taxes. Rampant cheating by gas stations had always been a problem, and often ignored. What the Russians did was to raise it from penny-ante chump change to a well-organized and lucrative racket. Shell corporations are frequently used as a means of pocketing what otherwise belongs to the government.

"On August 8, 2005, Garri Grigorian, a 43-year-old Russian living in Sandy, Utah, was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $17.42 million in restitution to the Russian government for his role in laundering over $130 million on behalf of Moscow-based Intellect Bank and its customers through bank accounts located in Sandy, Utah." (From a Department of Justice report on shell corporations, November 14, 2006)

     Marat Balagula received an 8-year sentence for credit card fraud and, in 1992, an additional ten years for evading federal taxes on the sale of four million gallons of gasoline. When questioned, he was not forthcoming regarding Russian mob activity in the U.S. " No," he insisted, "there is no such thing as the Russian Mafiya. Two or three friends hang out together. That's a Mafiya?"

     At first, investigators recognized Russian crime as a growing problem, but not an organized one. Food stamp scams and the like were treated as isolated cases committed by street criminals, who were not mobbed-up in mafia-like relationships. Further investigations were to reveal that the Brighton Beach boys did in fact constitute a criminal enterprise, and had corrupted the local cops who were on their payrolls so that were able to act freely and openly without threat of arrest. "Cops in cheap suits who looked like gangsters worked the door as bouncers and sat at the front tables in Russian mob joints."

     "Nobody takes the Russian Jewish mob seriously," said a NYPD detective. "The lack of interest of law enforcement has given them time to grow." A major roadblock was the super sensitivity to the Jewish aspect of émigré crime. The Jewish leaders worried that the resulting negative publicity from acknowledging the existence of Russian Jewish mobsters, of which there were an estimated 5000 in the New York metro region, would foster a wave of anti-Semitism.

"The Mafiya dominates Russia, and has Eastern Europe in a bear hug. It is also turning Western Europe into its financial satrapy, and the Caribbean and Latin America have quickly become sandy playpens for coke and weapons' deals with Colombian drug lords. There are few nations where the Russian mob does not hold some influence, making efforts to combat it ever more difficult." (R.I. Friedman, 2000)

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After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

CrackSmokeRepublican

#8
July 04, 2010, 06:18:25 PM
QuoteFrom THE GREAT HEROIN COUP, by Henrik Kruger, pg 89:

[By 1970] [t]here were five main heroin export routes to the U.S.A.,
two by air and three by sea. The shipping lanes emanated from
Barcelona, Lisbon, and Antwerp and either ended in Brazil/Paraguay,
Haiti and the French West Indies, or went directly to the east coast
of the United States. Heroin smuggled into the U.S. from the French Antilles
and Haiti, like that from Paraguay, went via Florida or Mexico...

Heroin leaving Haiti, the Antilles, Nassau, and the Paraguay-based
Ricord Mob wound up in Florida, where Santo Trafficante, Jr. and the
Cuban Mafia controlled the drug business in an axis that became the
U.S.A.'s most powerful narcotics organization.

The tight control over the U.S. heroin market by the Cotronis of Montreal and Trafficante
of Tampa was a legacy of Meyer Lanksy and Lucky Luciano's reorganization of the U.S.
heroin market. Lanksy built himself a fantastic empire headquartered in Havana, and
literally governed Cuba over the head of dictator Fulgencio Batista. Lansky became the
world's uncrowned narcotics king. His decisions affected everyone, including the bigwigs
in France and Italy. He invested in the Marseilles labs and had the Corsicans reorganize
themselves more efficiently. When Castro drove him from Cuba, Lansky created a similar
gambling paradise in Nassau.

QuoteAlfred W. McCoy, THE POLITICS OF HEROIN, pp 40-41:

[Mafia capo di tutti capi Lucky] Luciano's 1947 visit to Cuba laid the
groundwork for Havana's subsequent role in international narcotics
smuggling traffic. Arriving in January, Luciano summoned the leaders
of American organized crime, including Meyer Lansky, to Havana for a
meeting and began paying extravagant bribes to prominent Cuban
officials as well..."Cuba was to be made the center of all international
narcotics operations." Harry J. Anslinger, director of the Federal
Bureau of Narcotics...

...By the early 1950s...[Santo Trafficante Jr.]'s official position in Havana
was that of manager of the Sans Souci Casino, but he was far more
important than his title indicates. As his father's financial representative,
and ultimately Meyer Lansky's, Santo controlled much of Havana's
tourist industry and became quite close to the pre-Castro dictator
Fulgencio Batista. Moreover, it was reportedly his responsibility to
receive the bulk shipments of heroin from Europe and forward them
through Florida to New York and other major urban centers where their
distribution was assisted by local Mafia leaders.

After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

Christopher Marlowe

#9
July 09, 2010, 02:50:26 AM
I didn't want to comment and mess up this thread, but as Arther Miller might say: "attention must be paid".  <Bump>

People ask me what I'm doing.
I tell them, "I'm reading the cracksmoke." But they don't get it.

Another great CSR thread.  The hidden history here is mind blowing.  :D:D  To Cracksmoke!
And, as their wealth increaseth, so inclose
    Infinite riches in a little room

CrackSmokeRepublican

#10
August 22, 2011, 09:46:50 PM
Rosenberg reminds me of the sick Russian-Ukrainian Jews in the NKVD.... --CSR   :x




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Chris Rosenberg

Harvey "Chris" Rosenberg (also known as Chris DeMeo) (1950 – May 11, 1979) was a Jewish-American member of the DeMeo crew run by Gambino crime family soldier Roy DeMeo. The gang is suspected of between 75–200 murders in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. Following a failed narcotics deal with a Colombian group, DeMeo was forced to kill Rosenberg as restitution.

Early life

Chris Rosenberg grew up in Canarsie on a block dominated by Italian-Americans. Despite the Mafia rules that only full Italians could be made, or officially inducted into the organization, Rosenberg reportedly believed that his earning abilities and willingness to murder might eventually lead to his becoming a member of La Cosa Nostra.

Career

Rosenberg's criminal career began at the age of 13, when he began dealing marijuana. His first arrest was in 1970 for car theft, which started out as a felony case but was reduced to a misdemeanor. He was given probation rather than jail time. He was arrested again in 1971 for possession of the drug hashish, then again in 1972 for the attempted stealing of a snow plow. Both cases were dismissed.
[edit] DeMeo crew

Rosenberg was dealing in small amounts of marijuana and hashish when he first met Roy DeMeo at a Canarsie gas station in 1966. DeMeo recruited Chris to steal cars, which would then be sold off through connections DeMeo had within Canarsie junkyards. Rosenberg was also the first crew member to interact with DeMeo socially at family barbecues and get-togethers at DeMeo's house.

Between his adept car abilities as well as his fledgling drug business, Rosenberg became successful and opened his own car shop named Car Phobia Repairs, which soon became a hotspot for stolen vehicles. By 1972, Rosenberg had his friends stealing cars for him. Two of these friends were the Gemini twins, Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter, who Rosenberg would introduce to DeMeo and become two core members of the DeMeo crew. Testa and Senter, who were both full-blooded Italians, had known Rosenberg since their teenage years.

Andrei Katz murder


By 1974, a 23 year-old Rosenberg began selling cocaine and quaaludes, again backed by DeMeo. He acquired the Quaaludes through a pharmacist connection, as well as the cocaine, which at the time could be prescribed for medical purposes. Through this pharmacist, Chris Rosenberg and the rest of the early DeMeo crew met 22-year-old Andrei Katz, a man who became what was most likely the crew's first murder victim. When Katz was arrested due to a stolen vehicle he purchased from the crew, he blamed Rosenberg for his predicament.

The situation soon escalated to violence when Katz was pulled from his vehicle and severely beaten by two men and put in the hospital. Andrei's brother Victor later testified in court that Andrei claimed the two men were Testa and Senter. Victor also testified that while still in the hospital recovering from his injuries, Andrei swore to his brother that he would get revenge on Chris and the others.

The revenge came on November 13, 1974, when Rosenberg opened his garage door and was struck with 3 bullets fired from an automatic rifle. Rosenberg survived through sheer luck, one bullet hitting him in the lower jaw, another his right arm and a third that was aimed for his chest merely glancing off. Surviving what should have been a fatal shooting, Rosenberg was reportedly furious. His jaw was left disfigured from the bullet wound. Despite undergoing reconstructive surgery, from that point on Rosenberg wore a beard to mask the scars that resulted from this attack.

The man who had shot Rosenberg that morning was never seen but it was assumed by Rosenberg and the rest of the DeMeo Crew to be Andrei Katz. After this incident, and while Rosenberg was still in the hospital recovering from his gunshot wounds, DeMeo met with his followers and it was decided that Katz had to be murdered.

Directly taking care of Katz was considered by the men to be too much of a risk due to the back and forth violence that had already occurred. Henry Borelli, who had become involved with the crew shortly after Chris was shot, suggested that he use a woman friend of his to bait Andrei to a location where he could be abducted and then dealt with discreetly. Arriving at the woman's apartment complex expecting to take her out on a date, Andrei was forcefully abducted by Rosenberg, Borelli, Testa and Senter and taken to the meat department of a grocery store, where DeMeo was waiting.

It was this night, Friday June 13, 1975, that the DeMeo crew is first known to have been involved with murder and dismemberment. While first-hand accounts of the incident are unavailable, information provided by crew members who cooperated with the government years later as well as the actual remains of Andrei Katz provided clues that were used by law enforcement as well as author Jerry Capeci to reconstruct the events. Andrei was stabbed multiple times in the heart with a butcher knife, presumably by Rosenberg in revenge for the shooting that had ruined his face.

After he was already dead, he was then stabbed over a dozen times in the back, again presumably by Rosenberg. Katz's body was then stripped of its clothes and dismembered, likely by DeMeo and Testa, both former butcher apprentices. After the corpse was decapitated, one of the men, presumed to be Rosenberg, crushed the head with a machine normally used to compact cardboard boxes. Because of the damage done to the remains, dental records had to be used in order to positively identify the victim as Katz.

Although the woman friend of Henry Borelli's would confess her role soon after learning about Katz's murder, she was unable to identify Rosenberg. Borelli and Testa were arrested however, and spent months in jail while waiting for trial. They would secure an acquittal in January 1976, but the case would come back to haunt the surviving members of the crew in the late 1980s, when a Federal/State task force targeted the DeMeo Crew.

The nephew of Demeo's superior Anthony Gaggi within the Gambino Family, Dominick Montiglio, later testified that he learned of the murder from Rosenberg shortly after it happened. He also testified that Rosenberg claimed Katz's murder had driven DeMeo and his crew to decide that any future conflicts would be settled in a similar manner of dismemberment to make the victim disappear.

Gemini Method  :shock:

As the 1970s continued Rosenberg, along with the rest of the DeMeo crew, would contribute many more killings. The victims included suspected informants and other mobsters DeMeo and his followers were contracted to kill. Dominick Montiglio, who visited DeMeo frequently to pick up payments for Anthony Gaggi, said in an interview that if the crew didn't kill at least three people a week, they would be depressed. Some were shot to death and left to be found, but the majority of murders committed by the crew followed what came to be known as the "Gemini Method", named so because the main location where the murders took place was the Gemini Lounge, the headquarters of the DeMeo crew through much of the late 1970s.

The Gemini Method usually consisted of the victim entering the apartment in back of the Lounge, dubbed 'The Clubhouse' by crew members. At this point, a crew member (almost always Roy DeMeo according to crew member turned government witness Frederick DiNome) would approach them with a silenced pistol and shoot them in the head, then wrapping a towel around the victim's head wound like a turban in order to prevent blood from pouring out of the wound. Immediately after, another crew member would stab the victim in the heart in order to prevent any more blood from pumping out of the gunshot wound.

By then the victim would usually be dead, at which point the corpse would be dragged into a bathtub and hung over it for a short period of time. This was done so that the corpse would bleed out and the remaining blood would congeal, making the following step, the dismemberment of the victim, as clean as possible. The body parts would be put into bags, boxed and then sent off to Brooklyn's Fountain Avenue Dump among other places.

Crew members who became government witnesses all contend that during the time period that Rosenberg was alive, he was always the crew member who stabbed the victims after they had been shot in the head. These same witnesses also claim that Rosenberg usually did the stabbings, as well as the subsequent dismembering of the body, in his boxer shorts or underwear in order to avoid staining the expensive clothes he wore.

Other victims murdered by the crew had their bodies either left where they were killed or dumped in nearby locations. They were killed for various reasons, usually involving cooperation with law enforcement or the drug trade, which Rosenberg was heavily involved in by the mid-to-late 70s. One victim, Kevin Guelli, had been given cocaine by Rosenberg to sell off to customers Guelli claimed he had available. When Rosenberg demanded payment shortly after giving him the drugs to sell, Guelli claimed someone had robbed his house and stolen the product. Rosenberg allegedly shot him dead on the spot. Another man was found shot to death and dumped into the trunk of a car allegedly after attempting to rip Chris off in a marijuana deal.

"Cuban Crisis"

By the late 1970s, Rosenberg's continued involvement in the drug trade as well as his business with the DeMeo Crew had given him a prosperous lifestyle. He was living in an affluent neighborhood and when not working was training for his pilot's license. He also owned a number of businesses, including a pizzeria and his body shop. His heavy involvement in drug trafficking included importing marijuana from Colombia and dealing in large quantities of cocaine. He was Roy DeMeo's second-in-command and when conducting drug deals sometimes referred to himself as "Chris DeMeo". Roy had become somewhat of a father figure to Chris.

In 1979 he visited Florida to set up a cocaine deal with a loanshark customer of Roy DeMeo's who had entered the drug business in an attempt to pay off his debts. This man, Charles Padnick, was acquainted with a Cuban man named William Serrano. Serrano had connections with a Colombian drug cartel and was informed by Padnick that a group of Italians were interested in purchasing a large quantity of cocaine. After he met with Chris, who introduced himself as Chris DeMeo, Serrano told his Colombian associates and a deal was set up, although Rosenberg was never informed of Serrano's source of the drugs.

A group of four, comprising Charles Padnick and William Serrano as well as the cousin and girlfriend of Serrano's Colombian drug connection, flew to New York to facilitate the deal. Within hours of landing, they were shot to death, dismembered and disposed of by Rosenberg and other members of the DeMeo crew. That same night Rosenberg visited a hospital with gunshot wounds on his hand and on the side of his head, suggesting that the group may have tried to fight back before being killed.

When the Colombian Cartel acquaintance of Serrano's did not receive a phone call from his cousin or girlfriend that night to ensure that the sale had been completed, he contacted Charles Padnick's son Jamie in an attempt to get more information. Jamie flew to New York shortly after and disappeared as well after being murdered and dismembered by Rosenberg and his fellow crew members.

With the only information available being the location of New York City and the name "Chris DeMeo", the Colombian had contacts there inquire and eventually the situation led to Roy DeMeo and the Gambino family. Dominick Montiglio, the nephew of Roy's superior Anthony Gaggi, became a government witness in 1983 and claims that he was in charge of delivering messages back and forth between the Colombian's contact in New York and the Gambinos. The Colombians stated that if Chris Rosenberg were murdered, there would be no further conflict. The murder would have to be in the newspapers, otherwise they would not believe it had actually occurred. After being ordered to kill Rosenberg by his superiors, Roy stalled for a number of weeks, reportedly due to the close relationship he and Chris had. After a period of inaction on the part of the Gambinos, the Colombian sent a group of enforcers to New York and threatened violence if Rosenberg was not murdered soon.

During this situation between the Gambino family and the Colombian cartel, DeMeo committed his most public murder after mistaking a man for a Colombian assassin. The victim, Dominick Ragucci, was actually a 19 year-old paying his way through college by selling vacuum cleaners door to door. After Roy saw him parked in front of his house, he mistook him for a Colombian hitman and ended up pursuing the young man in a car chase that ended with Ragucci being shot to death by Roy after his vehicle became too damaged to continue driving. After this Anthony Gaggi met with Roy and ordered him to stop stalling and kill Rosenberg before there were any more innocent victims.

Death

Rosenberg was reportedly never informed about the Colombian situation and thus had no indication that his life was in danger. On May 11, 1979, he went to the regular nightly meeting with DeMeo and crew. As he sat at the table with his associates, DeMeo pulled a pistol out of a brown bag sitting on the table and shot Rosenberg in the head, wounding but not killing him. When Rosenberg got up off the floor and stumbled onto one knee, Anthony Senter stood and shot him four more times in the head.

Rosenberg's body was then placed in his car, which was driven and left parked on a street near the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York City. Crew member Frederick DiNome then drove by the vehicle while Henry Borelli raked it with machine gun fire, to ensure the murder was a blatant enough assassination to guarantee that it would be mentioned in the local newspaper. This gave the Colombians proof of the killing and defused the situation. Witnesses claim that for years afterward DeMeo expressed genuine regret at having to kill Rosenberg.

Members of the DeMeo crew were suspects in Rosenberg's murder but there was not enough evidence to charge them. Years later however, the murder would be among many others charges in a 1984 indictment against the surviving crew members after cooperating witnesses for the government provided a great deal of information on the crew's activities. At the trial in 1988, testimony was given by Dominick Montiglio and Vito Arena linking the remnants of the DeMeo crew with Rosenberg's murder. In 1989 the defendants were convicted of all charges and Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter, the only core DeMeo Crew members who had not been murdered or already imprisoned, were sentenced to life in prison.
[edit] Sources

    Murder Machine by Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci, 1993, ISBN 0-451-40387-8.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Rosenberg


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QuoteHistory

"Canarsie" is a phonetic interpretation of a word in the Lenape language for "fenced land" or "fort." The Native Americans who made the infamous sale of the island of Manhattan for 60 guilders were Lenape. Europeans would often refer to the indigenous people living in an area by the local place-name, and so reference may be found in contemporary documents to "Canarsee Indians." The current neighborhood lies within the former town of Flatlands, one of the five original Dutch towns on Long Island.

Canarsie was built on swamps near Jamaica Bay. It was a fishing village through the 1800s, until pollution killed the oysters and the edible fish. In the 1920s, Southern Italian immigrants along with Jews settled in the area (though the Jewish population in Canarsie in recent years has been steadily shrinking [3]).. Ferry service at Canarsie Pier withered away after the building of the Marine Parkway Bridge. During the 90s, much of Canarsie's white population left for Staten Island, Long Island, and Queens, part of a national urban phenomenon called "white flight" by many. Today, Canarsie's population is mostly non-white because of large West Indian immigration. East Brooklyn Community High School now serves the transfer student population.[4]
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

CrackSmokeRepublican

#11
October 29, 2011, 03:53:30 AM
QuoteCount Cherep

The Jewish Mob in America
by Dr. William Pierce

Excerpts:

The Anti-Defamation League, of course, has a long history of cozy associations with Jewish crime bosses and with the FBI, giving the Jewish pressure group a great advantage in pulling the necessary strings to shelter the most important of the Jewish gangsters from prosecution. And it wasn't just the Anti-Defamation League that sheltered the flood of Jewish thugs, extortionists, murderers, drug dealers, White slavers, and racketeers pouring in from Russia. The Jewish religious establishment in America did everything it could to facilitate the influx. That's a noteworthy point because the Jewish gangsters are portrayed by apologists for the Jews as being barely Jewish, Jews with no real consciousness of being Jewish, while the Jewish religious establishment is portrayed as being a pious bunch of rabbis, especially the Orthodox Jewish establishment. Actually it was in the Orthodox establishment that the gangsters formed their most useful connections.
...
One leading Jewish gangster in the United States, Monya Elson, was a hit man, a contract killer, before he became a gang boss. He began by murdering Ukrainians in Kishinev, his home town. Then he went to Moscow and murdered Russians. Then he came to America and began murdering Americans. He boasts that he has more than 100 confirmed kills. And it's not just that the Jews are more ruthless, vicious, and bloodthirsty than the members of the Italian Mafia. They are smarter, better organized, better protected politically, and much greedier: while the Mafia is stealing a million dollars, the Jews are stealing a billion. Finally, there are many more Jewish gangsters in America than Italian Mafia members. By the early 1990s there already were some 5,000 hard-core Jewish gangsters from the former Soviet Union operating in the New York area alone. That's more than the members of all of the Italian Mafia families in the United States.

And the Jews are continuing to pour into the country from Russia. The current flood began nearly 30 years ago, when corrupt politicians in the Congress, working with mainstream Jewish organizations and the Jewish media, enacted legislation that opened a sewer line from the Soviet-Jewish underworld to America. The late Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, who never went to the bathroom without getting permission from the Jews, spearheaded the effort to tie trade agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union to an increase in the flow of Jews from the Soviet Union to the United States.

The pretext for giving special status to Jews, for using U.S. economic power to persuade the Soviet government to permit Jews to leave when no one else could leave, for allowing the Jews who left to come to the United States without the usual immigration background checks — even for having American taxpayers foot the bill for flying them over here and then pay for subsidized housing, food stamps, and other special benefits for them — all of this was based on the pretext that Jews were persecuted in the Soviet Union. The mass media over here portrayed the Jews in the Soviet Union as the principal victims of communism, rather than as its originators and its principal beneficiaries. That's an especially egregious example of the Jews' "big lie" technique, in which they brazenly stand the truth on its head, because with their monopoly control of the media there is no one to contradict them.

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http://hofflandia.wordpress.com/2011/09 ... mment-1951
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

Anonymous

#12
October 29, 2011, 05:27:35 PM
Quote from: "Helphand"(London) Evening Standard Friday June 25 2010
page 1

"Doctor in assisted suicicde case will not be charged".

   A RETIRED GP who helped a London man to commit suicide at a Swiss clinic was today told that he will not be charged because a prosecution would not be in the public interest.

   Dr Michael Irwin, a former chairman of the British Euthenasia Socity, traveled to Switzerland with cancer patient Raymond Cutkelvin in 2007 so that the former post office clerk could be given a fatal dose of medicine at a Dignitas clinic.

   He later wrote to prosecutors admitting that he had donated a third of thr gbp4,500 fee paid to the clinic in an apparent invitation to them to trigger a test case on assisted suicide.

   Today, however, Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said that while there was sufficient evidence that both Dr Irwin, 79, and Mr Cutkelvin's civil partner, Alan Cutkelvin Rees, had committed an offence, neither would be charged.


Just who and WHAT is Keir Starmer? First name evokes the Bradford founder of the UK Parliamentary Labour Party late c19/early c20, but the surname???  Like "Gavin Essler" the BBC 2 TV Newsnight journalist and presenter the name combined with his GE's) Glaswegian accent tends to put off the usual enquiry... but is this another case of the crypto Jew doing "God's work" of favouritism for the fellow kikes?

Passing research finds this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/01/humanrights.law
- doesn't look J and the background info - such as is disclosed - doesn't give any of the usual signs.

Maybe he's just a paid-up member of the shabbas goyim club.

Is that the best example you could come up with? I would also be in favor of letting the doctor off. How is this a serious crime, the doctor took a risk to help his patient die which he wanted, I can't see anything wrong in that. This is where Christian morality fails by placing a crazy irrational emphasis that life is to be uphold at all costs. Are you running some kind of disinformation in this thread because holding this up as evidence of Judaic court crimes is a very weak example and there would be many people perhaps over 50% who would approve of the ruling. In addition you said you could not find any jews involved with this, you really are off your rocker. You have no distanced objectivity,

CrackSmokeRepublican

#13
January 02, 2012, 12:05:58 AM
QuoteThe Bronfman Gang

The Bronfman family is best known to Americans through its ownership of Seagrams, the biggest liquor company in North America. The family's holdings stretch from whiskey, banking, mining, to real estate, and although somewhat less publicized, narcotics. Today they are regarded as respectable and outstanding "philanthropists" whose name is attached to everything important in Canada and Israel be it government, business, or cultural affairs.

This was not always the public profile of the Bronfman family. Less than fifty years ago, they were known to be the biggest bootleggers in North America and were referred to by the less prestigious title "the Bronfman gang." The Bronfmans have always been beholden to the Hofjuden elite. The first member of the family to come to North America was Yechiel Bronfman, a grist mill owner from Bessarabia, Romania, who later anglicized his name to Ekiel. Yechiel emigrated to Canada in 1889 under the sponsorship of the Moses Montefiore Jewish Colonization Committee. [1]

This enterprise had been initiated at an 1872 meeting between Baron Maurice de Hirsch, Baron Alfred de Rothschild, and other Zionists who established a Jewish Colonization Association to bring selected Russian and Eastern European Jews to agricultural settlements (kibbutzim) in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. (2) The same period marked the transfer of the Warburg, Kuhn, Loeb, and related Our Crowd migration from Germany and Britain into lower Manhattan. In 1912, William Sebag Montefiore arrived in Montreal where he lived until his death in 1950. Lord Harold Sebag Montefiore, current head of the Jerusalem Foundation (the Zionist wing of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem) was sent to Canada for his early education. In the same period, Baron de Hirsch established the de Hirsch Foundation in Canada as the umbrella for all Canadian Jewish "philanthropic" activities, and the Montefiores created a club (named after the family) to service the resident elites. The Rothschilds, too, planted a branch of their family on Canadian soil.

Meanwhile, in Saskatchewan, the Bronfman family found little interest in eking a living out of the plains of midwestern Canada. The family first turned to selling wood, then to horse trading, and then most successfully to the hotel business (and prostitution).

In Yiddish Bronfman means "liquorman," and the hotel business put the Bronfmans in a good position to take advantage of the 1915 advent of Canadian prohibition. Bronfman hotels became "boozeriums". Prohibition enacted on orders from the Privy Council as the prelude to the 1920s Prohibition in the United States and the birth of organized crime catapulted the Bronfmans into the multi-millionaire bracket and a status as the untouchable kingpins of crime in North America.

During Canada's four dry years from 1915 to 1919, the Bronfmans established their contacts with U.S. criminal figures for illegally importing liquor into Canada. In 1916, the Bronfmans established their first link with the opium trade proper. Samuel and Abe Bronfman, two of Ekiel s four sons, collaborated with the Hudson's Bay Company in which the Keswick family of Jardine Matheson had controlling interest to buy the Canadian Pure Drug Company. In this way the Bronfmans rushed into the loophole in the War Measures Act that permitted the distribution by pharmacists of alcohol for "medicinal" purposes. When Prohibition in Canada ended in 1919 and Prohibition in the United States began, the Bronfmans simply turned from whiskey importing to whiskey exporting. After it was all over in May 1936, the Bronfmans agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle their account with the U.S. Treasury; the sum amounted to an admission that half the liquor that came into the United States during Prohibition was from the "liquormans." (4)

The "Seagram's Chickencock" the family poured across the border was a mixture of pure alcohol, sulfuric acid, caramel, water, and aged rye whisky. Between 1920 and 1930, 34,000 Americans died from alcohol poisoning.

Their control of the liquor flow during Prohibition U.S.A. gave the Bronfmans life-and-death control over American crime. Refusing to play ball with the Bronfman gang usually spelled death, and independent-minded gang bosses were often known to be executed by their lieutenants on the Bronfmans behalf. One of the buyers best liked by the gang was New York City beer baron Arthur Flegenheimer, a.k.a. Dutch Schultz, who succeeded in wiping out his competition, including the notorious killer Legs Diamond. Schultz himself was later rubbed out when he took it into his head to murder crusading New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey. (There is some question about what Dewey was crusading for, as we shall see in the story of the Mary Carter Paint Company.) [5]

In the first years of Prohibition, Ekiel Bronfman's four boys ran all bootlegging from the prairie states of Canada to major distribution sites south like Chicago. To secure the shipment lines, Harry set up a dummy firm, Trans Canada Transport Company. Trans Canada was a protective cover for the Canadian Pacific Railway owned by respectable gentlemen back in London, which ran the whiskey across the border. [6] The Bronfinans also bought up stretches of barren farmland along the border and even built an underground pipeline to pump their "chickencock" into the United States.

In 1922, Bronfman brother-in-law Paul Matoff was executed gangland-style by the Chicago mob in a dispute over profit splitting. A scandal ensued, public hearings were convened, and the Bronfman crimes came spilling out into the light of day. The Bronfmans received a mild reprimand from the Canadian government and relocated their operations to Montreal.

The year 1922 also marks the point when the Bronfmans procured their own distillery, hauled, with workmen included, from Kentucky to Montreal.

Since 1920 the Bronfmans had been importing British whiskey from the Distillery Company of London (DCL), which controlled more than half the world market in Scotch whiskey. DCL was owned by the higher echelons of the British nobility, including Field Marshal Haig, Lord Dewar, Lord Worlavington, and others. The dispensation of distribution rights was a decision made by His Majesty the King. In 1926, upon the request of Samuel Bronfman, the DCL agreed to go 50 50 in the Bronfmans distillery, and the Distillery Corporation Limited was formed as a holding company with Bronfman and Seagram s distilleries. Headquarters were established at the Bronfmans corporate castle in Montreal, but it was the Distillery Company of London s William Ross who was installed as president with Sam Bronfman as vice president. The British elite had given the green light to the Bronfmans.

Despite the big infusion of capital and the newly gained legitimacy the link-up with DCL afforded them, the smell of Bronfman smuggling and bribery grew too strong. In 1928, the Royal Commission on Customs recommended the immediate prosecution of Harry Bronfman on charges of attempted bribery. Shortly thereafter, the Bronfmans created the Atlas Shipping Company and moved their smuggling operations to the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, fifteen miles off the Newfoundland coast. With licenses in Bermuda, Saint John, New Brunswick, Belize, and British Honduras, the Atlas Shipping Company was one of the first ties nailed down in the dirty-money-drug underground railway between Canada and the Caribbean. A little ditty popular during the time indicates the amusement with which the British viewed the entire operation:

Four and twenty Yanks
Feeling very dry,
Went across the border
To get a drink of rye.
When the rye was opened,
The Yanks began to sing:
"God bless America,
But God save the King."

Organized Crime Comes of Age

With Prohibition, crime became a bigtime business. It was no longer based on small-scale prostitution, loan-sharking, or petty protection rackets. Now it was centralized around the marketing of one precious and outlawed commodity whose supply was controlled from London and from the British colony of Canada. Crime was reorganized from top to bottom into an integrated wholesale and retail distribution chain with well defined marketing districts, quotas, and uniform pricing. Crime became syndicated.

Hundreds of movies spewed out of Hollywood about the "Roaring Twenties" have glamorized the truth: With Prohibition, Britain through its Bronfman gang cutout had created a nationally syndicated crime cancer. Within a decade of the Roaring Twenties, the Bronfman syndicate would be peddling heroin, cocaine, and every other available poisonous drug through the same wholesaling, transporting, and retailing system that bootlegged booze. Bronfman's counterpart in the United States was one Arnold Rothstein. Just as Bronfman made it into the bigtime under the auspices of the Hofjuden elite, so Arnie Rothstein was sponsored by Our Crowd Zionist investment bankers who arrived in New York as the Montefiores were setting up business in Canada. Arnold Rothstein the godfather of organized crime was the son of a wealthy Our Crowd dry goods merchant.

At the turn of the century, the Russell Sage Foundation had issued a well-publicized field study of loan-sharking in New York City. [8] The report's wide publicity resulted in the bankrupting, jailing, or takeover of the petty gangsters by Rothstein, who emerged as a powerful Tammany Hall figure with a fabled loan-sharking business estimated at several million dollars.

Regionwide combines were formed up and down the East Coast for smooth distribution. The Reinfeld Syndicate named after the Newark, New Jersey bootlegger and accused murderer Joseph Reinfeld functioned as the middleman between the British liquor distilleries and the "rum rows" of Boston and New York. Its controlling shareholders were the four Bronfman brothers, Allan, Sam, Abe, and Harry. The U.S. leg was handled by Reinfeld and Abner "Longie" Zwillman, later the boss of Atlantic City, and Rothstein s gangs in New York. [9]

In 1927, the Big Seven combine consolidated the entire East Coast distribution system. Its organizer was John Torrio, a dapper little gentleman who, without benefit of family, racket, or turf had gained notoriety for eliminating any local crime bosses who stood in the way of national syndication. Torrio was a Bronfman man who had murdered his own uncle to prove it. Brought into Chicago in 1910 by his uncle, racketeer "Big Jim Colosimo", Torrio sniffed the wind on the eve of Prohibition and demanded that his uncle start making the right contacts to get into the lucrative business of bootlegging. When "Big Jim" refused, Torrio had him murdered and took over the Chicago mob as the distribution point for the Bronfman liquor. [10]

In 1925, Torrio suddenly left Chicago, heading for Havana and then landing in Italy. Returning to the United States in 1927 after he miraculously escaped Mussolini s purges of the Mafia, Torrio came back with one goal: to build a nationally organized crime syndicate.

While the mad killers and punks like Dutch Schultz, Legs Diamond, and Al Capone made the headlines every day and provided good material for gangster movies, John Torrio quietly continued the work that Arnold Rothstein (assassinated in 1928) had begun, now with the aid of Rothstein's successors Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano. Torrio could do what Lansky and the Bronfmans were prohibited from doing for reasons of ethnicity: Discipline the scores of family local crime chieftains and "moustache Petes" into one centralized business that could penetrate every sector of the economy. Known as the "assassin who never carries a gun," Torrio presented himself as the elder statesman of organized crime and commanded respect from the Mafia locals. "Cooperation is good for business" was his slogan.

The Big Seven had been Torrio s first step. The cooperative of East Coast bootleggers controlled from the top down to the local levels all prices, membership, centralized distribution points, corruption, and protection.

By 1928 Torrio was able to call a Cleveland meeting to establish a nationwide crime syndicate. [11] The gathering was unique in that it had succeeded in bringing together into one room all the crime bosses of every major organized city. There were three items on the agenda. First, how to use the huge profits of Prohibition and invest them in legitimate businesses that would permit a steadily increasing take for the syndicate. Second, how to deal with the Italian question. The ritual vendetta murders of the mafioso families were good for the newspapers, said Torrio, but bad for business. Immediately after the meeting the Castellammarese gang wars broke out in New York as the test case for Torrio s syndicate. Under the auspices of Lansky and Torrio, Lucky Luciano succeeded in wiping out all recalcitrant godfathers. During the last night of the war the infamous "Night of the Sicilian Vespers " over forty people were gunned down. [12]

With cartelization came the need for more long-lasting regulation gangland style. In the early 1930s, Murder, Inc. was formed as a regulatory commission of sorts to police any over-zealous "free enterprise" advocates who might try to buck the syndicate. A special assassination bureau was set up by Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugs" Siegel. The "Bugs and Meyer Gang" had been distinguished by the fact that it owed allegiance to no one (except maybe Arnold Rothstein); it had originally been used to protect Bronfman liquor shipments across the border against "freelance" hijackers. [13]

By 1932, Torrio was strong enough to pull together another meeting of the syndicate, this time in Atlantic City, where a National Commission the board of directors of organized crime was officially formed. Aside from the leading Italian mafiosi who had survived the transition, Meyer Lansky, now regarded as the financial and enforcement wizard of the syndicate, and Atlantic City s Zwillman were in attendance as honored guests.

For the British, Prohibition was a roaring success. What had begun as a three-way contract between Britain (the supplier), Bronfman (the cutout), and Rothstein (the distributor) had become within the space of a decade a nationally organized crime syndicate, a private, secret army under British banking and political control.

The Rothstein-Hong Kong Connection

To pick up the story of the modern-day Dope, Inc., let us return to Cleveland and John Torrio s first 1928 meeting of the syndicate. The third item on the agenda was what to do after Prohibition. The commodity, Torrio proposed, that would replace liquor as the black-market, big-profit taker was narcotics.

When Prohibition began in 1920 Arnold Rothstein had personally gone to Great Britain to establish the liquor pipeline with the British distilleries. At the same time he had dispatched his underling Jacob "Yasha" Katzenberg to Shanghai to begin negotiations for a dope pipeline from the Far East into the East Coast of the United States. [14] (The West Coast had been sewn up in the 19th century with a pipeline from Shanghai straight into the Pacific Chinese coolie communities.)

It was projected that the same networks established to bootleg liquor could just as easily smuggle and retail narcotics. By 1926, U.S. narcotics agent-on-the-scene in the Far East, Ralph Oyler, wrote back to his boss Levi Nutt, chief of the U.S. Narcotics Division, that the opium market had expanded so much that to meet market demand, Britain was "even taking shipments of crude opium from the Near East to add to her gigantic supply of Asian opium." The traditional opium families of Keswick, Sassoon, and Inchcape were preparing for the future. [15]

Let us now stand back and review in light of this history the jigsaw puzzle pieces that fall into place with Yasha Katzenberg s trip to Shanghai and the sealing of an opium pact.

First, Arnold Rothstein, Yasha Katzenberg s employer, was a product of the Rothschild dry goods empire that included the Seligman, Wanamaker, and Gimbel families. During Prohibition, according to the Bronfmans own testimony, Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano were the Bronfmans main distributors. As Prohibition came to a close, Bronfman associates traveled to Shanghai and Hong Kong to streamline and expand the drug trade into the United States, negotiating with the foremost Chinese drug runners who were not only encouraged but pressured by the British business community to pull together an opium cartel.

The man dictating the opium policy to China in this period was Sir William Johnston Keswick of Jardine Matheson and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. From the period of the Shanghai Massacre to 1942 when he was interned by the Japanese, Keswick directed the International Settlements of Shanghai the period of gross expansion of Shanghai heroin into the United States. The same Sir William Keswick was until very recently the director of the Hudson s Bay Company of Canada, the same company, it will be recalled, that collaborated with Sam and Abe Bronfman in 1916 to found the Pure Drug Company for illegal distribution of whiskey into Canada.

Working for Hudson s Bay along with Keswick is Sir Eric Drake, who not only sits on the board of several Bronfman-run banks and companies, but is also an employee of the Inchcape family and presently the deputy chairman of the Inchcapes Peninsular and Orient Navigation Company. The current chairman of the board is the son of the Lord Inchcape who in 1923 called for the expansion of "that most valuable source of revenue " the opium trade.

Sir Eric Drake is also a member of the board of Canadian Pacific, which plays a most vital role in the transshipment of drugs through Canada into the United States, just as it did with alcohol during Prohibition. Along with Lord Trevelyan, who heads up the HongShang's "gold for dope" exchange from his position at the British Bank of the Middle East, and Lord Inchcape, Sir Eric Drake sits on the board of British Petroleum, as does Sir William Johnston Keswick.

Sitting on the board of the Bank of Montreal along with Charles Bronfman and two Seagram's directors are J. Bartlett Morgan, William Arbuckle, and F.S. Burbridge, who in turn sit on the boards of Hudson's Bay, Canadian Pacific, and a host of other banks and corporations in which the drug families of the HongShang nexus play a policy-making role.

We are not charging guilt by association, but rather making note of the fact that the series of legitimate enterprises the Bronfmans moved into toward the close of Prohibition are indistinguishable from and intermeshed with companies controlled by Keswick, Inchcape, and other leading opium traders. During the same period, these gentlemen openly supervised the drug trade into the United States. This association not only continues to this day, but it remains the mainstay of the Bronfman empire.

Going Legit

With the repeal of Prohibition, the Bronfmans, like so many of their partners across the border, "went legit." Organized crime sunk its millions in legitimate businesses that both acted as cover for illegal activities and set up the laundry networks for dirty money. The new phase of respectability signaled that the most successful bigtime whiskey bootleggers were switching to bigtime narcotics.

In the early days, the Bronfmans had to run all the risks of the smuggler's profession. They had to dodge the law, stay one step ahead of the desperados on the other side of the border, and whenever things went wrong, face the humiliation of public exposure and scandal. As a result, the family acquired a considerable reputation.

Looking expectantly toward the fast increase in drug trade in America, the British could not afford to leave their leading cutout in such an exposed and precarious position. Nor could they simply dispose of the Bronfmans after Prohibition. The family had become irreplaceable due to its in-depth control over the syndicate. Yet, the Bronfmans would be a liability if they continued to work as openly with their distributors in narcotics-trafficking as they did running Prohibition.

The problem was resolved by bringing the Bronfmans into the lower rungs of the Hofjuden caste. Almost overnight, the Rothschilds, Montefiores, de Hirsches, et al. took Mr. Sam, the crime czar of North America, and transformed him into a rising star of the Canadian Zionist movement.

In 1934, Mr. Sam was given his first respectable post as chairman of the National Jewish People's Relief Committee (Canada).

By 1939 he had been appointed head of Baron de Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association, the same association that had brought Yechiel to Canada.

In the same year, the Canadian Pacific Corporation invited Mr. Sam to establish a new refugee organization for Eastern European Jews.

Within five years, the prince of crime was transformed by the good grace of His Majesty's oligarchists into a Zionist philanthropist. One post followed after another. He became head of the Canadian Jewish Committee, replacing Lyon Cohen, the son of Lazarus Cohen, the founder of the Jewish Colonization Association and the official agent of the de Hirsch family interest.

After World War II, Mr. Sam established the National Conference of Israeli and Jewish Rehabilitation, using his considerable smuggling skills to run guns to the Haganah.

Similar posts were awarded to the other Bronfmans. Allan Bronfman was named president of the Zionist Organization of Canada, a member of the board of trustees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropists and of the national council of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Abe Bronfman was posted to the Joint Distribution Committee and also to the national council of the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Finally, in 1969 the Bronfmans were given the highest reward issued by Her Majesty. Sam was made a Knight of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem. His brother Allan and his son Charles were appointed to the highest rank, Knight of Justice of the order. These appointments are emphatically not ceremonial, but are only bestowed on those who have carried out the most dangerous and fruitful missions for the British Crown.

The Bronfman's time had truly come. Sam's children were welcomed into the Hofjuden elite by intermarriage. Minda married Baron Alain de Gunzberg, himself an extension of the Rothschild family tree. De Gunzberg sits on the board of Seagrams, is managing director of the Banque Louis Dreyfus, and controls the Seligman-Louis Hirsch investment house that has close Rothschild ties. Edgar Bronfman's first marriage, to Ann Loeb, brought him instantly into a command position within the Wall Street house of Loeb, Rhoades, and Co. While taking over the Seagrams main branch in New York, Edgar's marriage clinched the tie to Our Crowd that had begun during Prohibition. His second marriage, to Lady Caroline Townshend, was unsuccessful. Phyllis Bronfman married Jean Lambert of the Belgian banking and mining interests.

Yet, despite their mountains of wealth, despite their hardwon entry into the realms of good breeding, it would be a mistake to think the Bronfmans were a power in their own right. When it comes to the question of control, they are treated as if the money were not their own.

Take, for example, the case of Trizec, the holding company through which the Bronfman brothers ostensibly run their various corporations, including Seagram's. Since it was formed in 1960, the Bronfmans have never held a majority position within Trizec! Trizec is run by Eagle Star Ltd. of London, a holding company whose directors have been described by one author as "the most notable of the British aristocrats." [16] Evelyn de Rothschild, the earls and dukes who control Lloyds of London and other banking and insurance firms, and leading lights of British intelligence such as Sir Kenneth Strong and Sir Kenneth Keith, all converge on the board of Eagle Star. This extraordinary company owns English Property Corp. Ltd. whose principal individual shareholder, Laurie Marsh, has gained notoriety in Britain as the Prince of Pornography, for his ownership of the majority of pornographic movie theaters, massage parlors, and red light district real estate in London. [17] English Property Corp. Ltd. owns majority holdings in Trizec.

Neither are the brains behind the Bronfman empire situated between the ears of the members of the Bronfman family. The source lies elsewhere in the family's law firm of Phillips, Bloomfield, Vineberg and Goodman (now called Phillips and Vineberg).

The personage of family arbiter and attorney Lazarus Phillips, in particular, was a constant sore to Mr. Sam. Born into the upper crust of the Zionist elite, Lazarus Phillips succeeded in gaining all the recognition and respect that Mr. Sam could never seem to win. Phillips was a holder of the Order of the British Empire, a senator in the Canadian Parliament, a member of the board of directors of the Royal Bank of Canada, invited into the exclusive Mount Royal Club as a member, and was a powerbroker for the Liberal Party.

But without Phillips, the Bronfman family empire could not survive. It is likely that through him the Bronfmans received the input of cash that allowed them to proceed steadily from bootlegging to a "legitimate" corporate empire. Certainly it was Phillips who unfroze enough funds under export control from the grip of the Bank of Canada to finance Seagram's wartime expansion into the United States. As the final judge in all family matters legal and otherwise Phillips has sat on the board of Seagrams since 1940 and on every other company and philanthropic front nominally run by Mr. Sam. He is still the co-director of Trizec and the other major Bronfman holding company, Edper (named after Edgar and Peter Bronfman). Phillips is also the expert who managed to get the Bronfmans off every legal hook on which they ever got caught. [8]

Phillip F. Vineberg is part of the Vineberg family of Abraham Moses Vineberg, chairman of the Moses Vineberg Investments firm and the De Hirsch Institute. Cochairman of all the Bronfman holding companies, Vineberg runs the Canadian Israeli Bond Drives and the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. He is also a member of the Hofjuden elite's Montefiore Club.

Major Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, also of the firm Phillips, Vineberg, and Bloomfield is the most colorful of the Bronfman brains behind the scenes, and this may explain why his name was left out of Peter Newman's 1978 book "The Bronfman Dynasty" (rumored to have been commissioned by the Bronfmans themselves). In addition to his position as a Bronfman family lawyer up to the late 1960s, Bloomfield remained a close banking associate until his death in the mid-1980s. The major was involved in a nest of corporations including the Israeli Continental Company. He was chairman of the Canadian Histadrut Campaign, and a president of the Israeli Maritime League. He also held the post of consul-general in Liberia, under whose flag vast quantities of opium and narcotics are shipped. He was a high-ranking member of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem and ran its subsidiary Canadian Red Cross Ambulance Corporation.

Major Bloomfield also ran Britain's International Assassination Bureau, an entity we will soon examine in detail.

Are They Really Clean?

The answer, of course, is no. Since the days they sent their chickencock across the border to their claim as the world s finest whiskey blenders, the Bronfman's ties to North America's crime syndicate have never been broken, but merely undergone corporate reorganization. Later, we will analyze their criminal activities at length. At this point, a few examples will suffice.

Take the case of Bronfman family intimate Murray Koffler. A leader of the Jerusalem Foundation in Canada, Koffler was the subject of a major scandal in 1976 when his business associates, Starkman stores, were busted by Canadian police after their pharmacists were caught manufacturing illegal amphetamines and funneling them into the black market. [19]

Charles Bronfman's sister Phyllis Lambert was the subject of a simultaneous scandal over her involvement in Heritage Canada, a government-funded social service program that got caught conduiting drugs onto Canadian college campuses. [20]

In 1975, the Bronfmans again made the front pages when Edgar Bronfman s eldest son Samuel II was reported kidnapped. The case revealed the chief kidnapper to be Sam II's homosexual lover. When the police found them, Sam's kidnappers pleaded that the Bronfman youth had blackmailed them into the hoax as a way of extorting money from his father. The jury agreed; the two abductors were declared innocent of kidnapping, but found guilty of the lesser charge of extortion. The press also aired the kidnapper's pleas that their lives were now in danger for having sung about Sam II.

Since he took over the reins of Seagram's New York branch in the 1950s, Sam II's father, Edgar, has built the Seagram's distilleries network into a multinational global empire. The Bronfmans, for example, have entered into a most profitable business partnership with the Cuban rum Bacardi family. After Fidel Castro took over the island in 1959, the Bacardis switched their base of operations to Puerto Rico and Miami, taking along with them a small army of anti-Castro Cuban exiles. The Bacardis, headed by Manuel Cutilla Bacardi, have been pinpointed by law enforcement agencies as the funders and political controllers of entire networks of Cuban exiles, including terrorist networks. Drug runners in the Bacardi-Cuban exile networks, José Medardo Alvero-Cruz and Antonio Cruz Vásquez, were arrested in 1978 for drug-trafficking in the Caribbean and Mexico. [21]

Seagram's has also staked a conglomerate empire in Mexico. Bronfman's contact is former Mexican President Miguel Aleman, who demanded the revival of casino gambling in Mexico, and who owned and operated Acapulco, until his death in the mid-1980s. In the 1930s, nationalist President Lázaro Cárdenas threw the casinos, and with them Meyer Lansky, out of the country.

In short, wherever Seagram's branches appear on the map, they are thoroughly intermeshed with narcotics runners, gambling, and crime.

The Bronfman's gutter connections are most visible in the case of Mitchell Bronfman. The son of Knight of Justice Allan Bronfman, Mitchell is reportedly never without his automatic strapped to his shoulder and his stiletto strapped to his left calf. He is on record with the Montreal Police, the Quebec Provincial Justice Ministry, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a kingpin of organized crime in Montreal. [22]

A 1972 report by the Montreal Crime Commission names one Willie Obront as the head of the syndicate in the area and describes the relationship between Obront and Mitchell Bronfman as "almost a brotherly relationship." [23]

This relationship extends into illegal activities in which they have mutually or jointly indulged ... the special kinds of favors they did for each other and the resulting advantages of each in the fields of loan-sharking, gambling, illegal betting, securities, tax evasion and corruption. [24]

"Everything was on a strictly friendly basis," says Mitchell.

Obront first came to the attention of the authorities after two of his Quebec nightclubs used as hangouts for Montreal's underworld were raided. It was revealed that Mitchell's friend was one of Montreal's top movers of dirty money from narcotics, prostitution, and loan-sharking.

Together with Obront, Mitchell Bronfman is a minority partner in the Pagoda North, a Miami restaurant that has been identified by U.S. and Canadian law enforcement agencies as the headquarters for a continent-wide illegal bookmaking syndicate run by Vito Genovese.

Willie Obront was convicted in 1976 of tax evasion and put behind bars. Mitchell Bronfman narrowly averted the same fate.

Another one of Mitchell Bronfman's business partners is Sidney Rosen, who was also arrested and convicted in 1975 for looting thirty-five Canadian and American companies of $7 million through an asset-stripping clearinghouse called Value Trend Holding Company. Value Trend in turn laundered these stolen assets, along with other dirty revenues from illegal gambling, extortion, and narcotics, through Corporate Bank and Trust Company of Freeport, Grand Bahamas and Flendon Ltd., of the same address. Both companies are jointly owned by Rosen and Mitchell Bronfman through another holding company called the Milton Group. When Rosen went off to jail (again leaving Mitchell Bronfman scot free), the $7 million passed unscathed into offshore accounts in Barclays Bank in Freeport. [25]

But the two major corporations out of which Mitchell has operated are the mysterious Securex and Execaire Aviation. Securex was disbanded in 1977 by Quebec Provincial Justice Minister Bedard. Although the Official Secrets Act has kept the reasons behind this hidden, it can be stated with reasonable certainty that Mitchell Bronfman and the company were discovered to be up to their necks in the wave of FLQ (Front pour la Liberation du Québec) terrorism that had plagued the province since 1970 not to mention the narcotics trade.

The two directors of Securex at the time of its banning were Donald McCleary and Gilles Brunet, formerly sergeants in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in charge of the G-4 (Secret Service Division) of the Mounties. Both were fired from the Service in 1972 when it was discovered that they were close associates of Mitchell Bronfman.[26] McCleary and Brunet were in charge of counterterror efforts in 1970 when the FLQ kidnapped a provincial official and a British government officer, an affair that led to the declaration of a state of emergency. The emergency period was used as a pretext to go after the French Canadian networks that had been built up by Charles de Gaulle in conjunction with the Vatican to liberate Quebec from British colonial status.

In point of fact, the FLQ was itself funded by Bronfman family networks as an extension of earlier efforts to assassinate French President de Gaulle. The Bronfmans FLQ option was the North American version of the British Special Air Service s control over both the Provisional Wing of the Irish Republican Army and the British Army's counterterror efforts.

Securex advertises itself as a consulting firm specializing in "anti-terrorism, anti-kidnapping, and guerrilla warfare training.". [27] All things considered, it would have to be regarded as both a semi-official covert branch of British intelligence in Canada and as a bridge to the criminal underworld.

It's affiliated Execaire Aviation emerges as yet another scarcely concealed front for crime. Execaire is the largest private charter airline service in Canada, specializing in jet service for business executives . . . and narcotics.

Is Mitchell Bronfman just the black sheep in the Bronfman family? It is unlikely. Cemp, the Bronfman family trust, signed a guarantee for part of Execaire s line of credit at the Bank of Montreal.

Nevertheless, the publicity the Bronfmans have received over the years for such exploits as Mitchel' s have prevented the family from receiving that degree of respectability they have always coveted. In the 1950s, Mr. Sam looked across the fence at the status of his friend then U.S. Senator Jacob Javits and decided that he would buy the ultimate title to confer respectability to his name: He sought to become a senator of the Canadian Parliament. All told, he spent $1.2 million in bribes. The Liberals took his money but wouldn't give him a seat. The Bronfman name was still too dirty to be permitted in the ranks of Canadian politics.

In this regard, the Kennedy family fared much better.

Notes from Appendix C

Moneybags at Sterling National

There is one financial institution that is more closely linked to the ADL than any other: Sterling National Bank of New York City. On Jan. 29, 1982, Italian authorities filed civil suit against Sterling National Bank and other U.S. financial institutions on behalf of depositors in Banca Privata Italiana, charging that $27 million had been looted. The chairman of Sterling, both at the time of the alleged theft and today, is Theodore H. Silbert, another honorary vice chairman of the ADL and the former head of the ADL Appeal, its major fundraising arm. Law enforcement sources have identified Sterling National as a mob front since its founding in 1929 by Meyer Lansky associate Frank Erickson. Sterling National was also implicated in a tax evasion scheme in the early 1980s through another ADL-linked bank director, Arnold Burns, a Reagan-era U.S. deputy attorney general. Burns's law firm, Burns and Summit, apparently set up a string of Caribbean tax shelters which shielded millions of dollars in taxable income through nonexistent "R&D investments" in Israel.

Former Reagan official, Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Raab, is another longstanding Sterling National director. Raab was a onetime business partner of Meyer Lansky in the International Airport Hotel Corp.

Yet another mob-linked banker who sits on the ADL's National Commission and is listed in the League's most recent "Purpose and Program" as an honorary vice chairman, is Leonard Abess of the City National Bank of Miami. In 1981, Abess brought Colombian cartel money launderer Alberto Duque onto the bank's board, where he remained until he was jailed on money-laundering charges in 1986. The following year, Donald Beasley was named City National's chairman. Beasley was the former director of the Nugan Hand Bank, believed to have been a major laundering conduit for Southeast Asian heroin proceeds, as well as "black" funds derived from the illicit arms trafficking of Theodore G. Shackley and other former top CIA officials later implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal.

A listing of ADL financial contributors and award recipients over the recent decades reads like a "Who s Who" of the Meyer Lansky international crime syndicate. Longtime Lansky cronies such as Victor Posner, Hollywood attorney Sidney Korshak, and Moe Dalitz all appear as ADL patrons.

The same pattern holds true at the regional levels of the ADL. For example, Phil Baskin, a Pittsburgh attorney and Democratic Party fixer known to be the chief operator of the ADL in western Pennsylvania, was forced to resign as the senior partner in his law firm after being implicated in an effort to deliver a major airport construction contract to a top figure in the New York City Gambino family, "Nicky" Sands.

Further south, Paul Lipkin, the chairman of the Virginia Regional Board of the ADL, was for decades the personal attorney for Arthur "Bootsy" Goldstein, the biggest pornography distributor in Norfolk. Goldstein was arrested 85 times and served three jail terms for crimes including selling glue to minors and peddling sex paraphernalia.

The Booze Baron

No discussion of the ADL's ties to organized crime and the drug apparatus would be complete without reference to Edgar Bronfman, ADL honorary vice chairman and chief of its New York Appeal.

Today touted as a leading international businessman, philanthropist, and the chairman of the prestigious World Jewish Congress, Bronfman has been unable to erase the taint left by the fact that his entire family fortune Seagram's Corp., its majority share in E.I. duPont de Nemours Co., etc. derived from his father's Prohibition-era bootlegging activities. Known at the time as the "Bronfman Gang," the Canadian Bronfmans were the main illegal suppliers to America's crime syndicate known as "Murder, Inc." By no later than 1920, when Edgar's father Sam Bronfman and Arnold Rothstein agent Jacob Katzenberg were dispatched to Hong Kong to arrange opium supplies, the bootlegging routes were also utilized for the smuggling and retail distribution of illegal drugs.

To this day, elements of the Bronfman family remain tied to the gutter levels of organized crime, while Edgar and his brothers and cousins have managed to wrap themselves in a somewhat ragged cloak of respectability. Edgar's nephew Mitchell Bronfman was named in a 1972 Montreal Crime Commission report as an intimate of local crime boss Willy Obront: "Their relationship extends into illegal activities in which they have mutually or jointly indulged.... the special kinds of favors they did for each other and the resulting advantages of each in the fields of loan sharking, gambling, illegal betting, securities, tax evasion and corruption" (from The Bronfman Dynasty, by Peter C. Newman). Obront and another Mitchell Bronfman crime partner Sidney Rosen were both jailed in the mid-1970s for drug money laundering and related crimes.

When in 1978 the links of the Bronfman family to organized crime were published in the book-length study of the international illegal drug trade, Dope, Inc., commissioned by Lyndon LaRouche, Bronfman, according to Quebec police sources, ordered his attorneys to prepare a multimillion-dollar libel suit. But after careful deliberation, the attorneys strongly argued against such an action. Instead, Bronfman reportedly poured large amounts of money into the ADL. Almost immediately, the ADL began a shrill publicity and dirty-tricks campaign slandering LaRouche as an "anti-semite" and demanding his elimination.

Notes: Part VII

[1: The Bronfman Gang]

1. Canadian Jewish Congress Report, 1967-68, in commemoration of Samuel Bronfman.
2. Ibid.
3. Peter C. Newman, Bronfman Dynasty, The Rothschilds of the New World (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1978), pp. 66-73.
4. Newman, Bronfman Dynasty, p. 64.
5. Hank Messick, Lansky (New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1971), pp. 230 31.
6. James H. Gray, Booze (Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, Alger Press, 1972).
7. Newman, Bronfman Dynasty, p. 127.
8. Russell Sage Foundation, 1870 1 946 (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1947), Volume 1. Loan- shark operation surveys were also conducted in Illinois and Kentucky.
9. Hank Messick, Secret File (New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons, 1969), pp. 277-78.
10. Torrio's rise to power has been chronicled in hundreds of books and press accounts dealing with the history of organized crime and with the "Capone" Chicago organization in particular. See Don Maclean, Pictorial History of the Mafia (New York: Pyramid Books, 1974); Ralph Salerno and John S. Tompkins, The Crime Confederation (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969); Martin A. Gosch and Richard Hammer, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano (New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1974). Additional insight was provided through numerous interviews with law enforcement officials at the U.S. Customs Bureau and Drug Enforcement Administration.
11. Maclean, Pictorial History of the Mafia, p. 150; see also Donald R. Cressey, Theft of the Nation: The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1969), pp. 29-53.
12. Maclean, Pictorial History of the Mafia, p. 461. Figures vary for the death toll reached during the war period; however, on the night that New York boss Salvatore Maranzano was assassinated September 11, 1931 and the immediate 48-hour period following, it is estimated that 40 gang leaders were killed in the overall purge. See also: Donald R. Cressey, Theft of the Nation, pp. 29 53, and Peter Maas, The Valachi Papers (New York: Bantam Books, 1968).
13. Messick, Secret File, pp. 96 97. Corroboration of the analysis presented here was provided through numerous and exhaustive intern views with law enforcement officials at the DEA and U.S. Customs Bureau.
14. Messick, Lansky, pp. 90, 97-98. Additional corroboration was provided by DEA officials in interviews in December 1977.
15. Report from Narcotics Division Agent Ralph Oyler to Narcotics Division Chief Levi Nutt, March 30,1926 (DEA Library, Washington, D.C.).
16. Henry Aubin, Who Owns Montreal.
17. Ibid.
18. Newman, Bronfman Dynasty, pp. 55-61.
19. Starkman stores connections to Koffler were widely publicized at the time in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
20. See also Newman, Bronfman Dynasty, pp. 167-169.
21. The Washington Post, November 6, 1978, p. 2.
22. Newman, Bronfman Dynasty, p. 233.
23. Ibid., p. 231.
24. Ibid., p. 225.
25. Ibid., p. 232.
26. Ibid., p. 227.
27. Ibid., p. 227.

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After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

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QuoteAre `Mega' Bucks Helping Sharon Steal Israeli Elections?

by Scott Thompson and Jeffrey Steinberg

A small group of American and Canadian mega-billionaires, tied to organized crime and right-wing Zionist causes, has joined in the effort to steal the Jan. 28 Israeli elections, on behalf of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is committed to drowning any Israel-Palestine peace process in a sea of blood. The Mega Group, founded in 1991 by Charles and Edgar Bronfman, Michael Steinhardt, Max Fisher, and several dozen other multi-billionaires, meets secretly twice a year, and, since its founding, has sought to impose its top-down control over the "alphabet soup" of pro-Israel political action committees, self-styled civil rights organizations, and tax-exempt charities. Among the Mega Group's institutional power bases are the World Jewish Congress, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, and the United Jewish Fund—a recent merger of the major American and Canadian Jewish charities, disbursing annual gross contributions of nearly $3 billion.
QuoteAccording to one Israeli source, the group has expanded in recent years, and now is made up of over 50 American and Canadian super-rich Zionist activists. The dominant figures in the group—the Bronfman brothers, Steinhardt, and Fisher—all have longstanding personal and family organized-crime pedigrees, tracing back to the Meyer Lansky National Crime Syndicate. The Canada-based Bronfman gang, headed by Edgar and Charles' father Sam, and by Max Fisher, got their start as bootleggers during Prohibition. Fisher was a leader of the Detroit-based Purple Gang, which, in collusion with Moe Dalitz's Cleveland-centered "Jewish Navy," smuggled Bronfman's illegal booze across the Great Lakes from Canada into the Midwest. The Bronfman family motto, which applies to most of the Mega Group, is: "From rags, to rackets, to riches, to respectability."

Michael Steinhardt, like Edgar and Charles Bronfman, is the son of a Meyer Lansky lieutenant, "Red" Steinhardt, who was the National Crime Syndicate's number-one jewel fence. "Red" Steinhardt was also a partner with Lansky in the Havana casinos prior to Castro's takeover, and was also affiliated with the Genovese organized-crime family. According to Michael Steinhardt's autobiography, it was his father's ill-gotten gains that put him through the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business; and it was syndicate loot that started him on a successful career as a Wall Street speculator and hedge-fund manager.

For the past 15 years, Steinhardt has been one of Presidential wanna-be Sen. Joseph Lieberman's (D-Conn.) biggest boosters, having founded the neo-conservative Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), and promoted Lieberman as the group's poster boy.

Steinhardt grabbed headlines in January 2001, when he played a pivotal role in conning President Bill Clinton into granting a Presidential pardon to Russian Mafiya "Godfather" Marc Rich, one of Steinhardt's longtime business partners. Rich was a fugitive from U.S. Justice Department indictments for tax evasion and trading with the enemy (Iran). As EIR reported on Jan. 10, Rich is another source of dirty money flows into the Sharon camp, through his secret Russian Mafiya partner, Grigori Loutchansky, among others.
Mafiya Damage Control

In a Jan. 15 interview with a Washington, D.C.-based journalist, Steinhardt boasted about his recent intervention to sabotage the electoral campaign of Israeli Labor Party Chairman Amram Mitzna, which was also intended to control the damage being done by the spreading scandal over the Likud party's ties to organized crime, into which Steinhardt and the whole Mega Group could be swept.

On Jan. 12, Steinhardt said, he had had a private dinner with Ariel Sharon. While claiming that he does not support either major party in Israel, Steinhardt did insist, that the Jan. 28 elections must produce another "national unity government," along the lines of the coalition that Sharon formed in 2001, in which Labor Party leaders Shimon Peres and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer held the Foreign and Defense portfolios. Their participation with serial war-criminal Sharon, gave him and and his right-wing thug allies, 20 months in which they could tear apart the entire Oslo peace process, brutally exterminate much of the Palestinian Authority, and achieve Sharon's ultimate goal: the "ethnic cleansing" to remove all Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza.

Mitzna has repeatedly stated that he will not join a national unity government with the mobbed-up murderers of Likud, and will press for Israeli authorities to get to the bottom of the Sharon-Likud-Mafiya election theft scandals. Whatever the outcome on Jan. 28, it is widely acknowledged inside Israel, that the scandals have denied Sharon the landslide victory he was hoping for. Mitzna, in rejecting the national unity scheme, is paving the way for a near-term political victory, uncontaminated by compromise with Sharon. The organized-crime/Likud scandal has become too big to bury, and any Sharon government—minus Labor—would likely be short-lived and paralyzed by scandals.

This is something that the Mega Group—in particular Steinhardt and Rich—cannot tolerate.
Steinhardt and Rich

Steinhardt also admitted to the Washington journalist, that while in Israel, he met with Marc Rich, where they joined in promoting the Mega Group's favorite "charity," Birthright Israel, to which, he acknowledged, Rich is a major donor. Birthright Israel, founded by Steinhardt, and co-chaired by Charles Bronfman, is a U.S.-based charity, with "501(c)3" tax-exempt status, which sends Jewish youths, between 16 and 26, to Israel for indoctrination, to convince them to "make aliya"—i.e., to take up permanent residence.

But a closer look by EIR investigators at Birthright Israel raises some important questions about what the "charity" is actually all about. Among the most disturbing pieces of the picture is its close links to an Israeli-based "charity," the Mikhail Chernoy Foundation, a tax-exempt front, set up by one of the most notorious of the Russian Mafiya figures residing in Israel. The website of the Chernoy Foundation boasts that it is involved in joint projects with Birthright Israel.

Mikhail Chernoy is a major figure in the Russian Mafiya, whose "business" activities have been associated with Benya Stilitz's attempted takeover of Alpha Bank in Russia, and earlier Mafiya moves to corner the Russian aluminum sector, in league with none other than Marc Rich.

Stilitz is particularly close with Russian Mafiya don Grigori Lerner (a.k.a. Zvi Ben-Ari), who is scrutinized in Jeffrey Robinson's The Merger: The Conglomeration of International Organized Crime (New York: The Overlook Press, 2000). According to Robinson, after Lerner spent 18 months in jail in Russia for fraud, following a most unusual extradition from Switzerland, Lerner, in 1995, was permitted by the Israelis to found the Israeli-Russian Finance Co., accused of having been involved in laundering foreign funds.

Robinson reports that Lerner set up a string of shell companies around the globe, including in Panama, the Caribbean, Mauritius, Luxembourg, and Cyprus. Lerner became a major money launderer with the permission of the Israeli government, where there are no laws against money laundering. Lerner is also known to have given the former Israeli Minister of Trade and Industry Natan Sharansky, $100,000; through Sharansky, Lerner made approaches with his largesse to the Likud and other parties.

Mikhail Chernoy's Foundation was created in June 1, 2001, and is seen by Israeli investigators as a public relations ruse. Chernoy claims that it was created after the terrorist bombing of the Dolphinarium Disco in Tel Aviv, to aid the 150 survivors and families of the 20 dead, mostly Russian immigrants. The foundation website boasts that American youths whom Birthright Israel brings to Israel, have met with these bombing victims. One item on the Chernoy Foundation website reported: "The emotional meeting [between the Birthright Israel youths and the Dolphinarium survivors] was moderated by representatives of the Mikhail Chernoy Foundation, which has been assisting Dolphinarium victims from the very first night of the attack. The Foundation financed a book and is producing a movie."

Mikhail Chernoy's brother Lev has been a prime target of the Swiss investigation into the Russian Mafiya since he attempted to take over the Russian aluminum industry—allegedly with the assistance of Marc Rich. Also, according to Robinson, Swiss investigators believe that Lev Chernoy has ties with the Mega-linked "Russian oligarch" Boris Berezovsky, who is accused of siphoning $200 million in hard currency out of Aeroflot accounts and into Switzerland. Both Chernoy and Berezovsky are suspected of involvement with the Bank of New York, which laundered billions of dollars in hard currency and state assets out of the Soviet Union during the early 1990s. According to Robinson, the person behind many of these murky deals was Likud campaign contributor Grigori Loutchansky. A recent international law enforcement probe of the Bank of New York operations has turned up evidence that Marc Rich was a silent partner of Loutchansky's in the Nordex operations, which started out as a KGB money-laundering front in the late 1980s.

According to the book by the late Robert I. Friedman, Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2000), Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet refusenik, head of the Russian emigré party Yisrael B'Aliyah, and a Sharon Cabinet minister, took millions of dollars from Loutchansky. Sharansky then introduced Loutchansky to former Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is now Sharon's Foreign Minister. The Israeli press reported at the time, that Netanyahu took $1.5-5 million from Loutchansky, and the contributions to the Likud are never known to have stopped.

In 1994, new Israeli election laws were passed, making it a crime to accept foreign campaign contributions.
Show Me the Money

With Steinhardt and Rich running around Israel, promoting a pre-election revolt against Labor Party Chairman and lead candidate Mitzna, over his refusal to entertain the idea of a unity government with Sharon—the only thing that would save the Likud thug from a near-term political fall—another question must be asked: Is Birthright Israel, like so many other U.S.-based tax-exempt charities, serving as an illegal siphon into Sharon's and Likud's coffers on the eve of the election?

This is a matter that urgently needs to be taken up by Israeli and American prosecutors. While there is no "smoking gun" document, proving that Birthright Israel is funneling cash into the right wing, a careful review of the fund's U.S. 990 Internal Revenue Service filings poses some disturbing questions. According to the most recent filing available, covering the year 2000, in that year alone, Birthright Israel, with U.S. status as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt charity, took in nearly $50 million in contributions, from an undisclosed number of donors. In the same year, its total expenses—including sending U.S. students to Israel—cost under $5 million, leaving an unaccounted-for balance of $45 million!

The 990 forms also revealed that Birthright Israel, more than any other "charitable" agency, is dominated by the Mega Group's known members. Of the 12 names listed in the IRS filing as board members of Birthright Israel, at least 8 are publicly identified members of the Mega Group (based on a lone published profile of the group, that appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 1998). There is no reason to believe that the other four directors are not members as well, but this has not been confirmed, and most members of the super-secret steering committee are chary about discussing their affiliation, or anything else about Mega.
Who's Who in the Birthright Israel Foundation

The two co-chairmen of Birthright Israel are Mega co-founder and booze baron Charles R. Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt.

Other board members include:

Leonard Abramson, the founder of the health maintenance organization, U.S. Healthcare, which he sold to Aetna Insurance, pocketing $990 million on the deal. One Mega project that Abramson formed—at the Ariel Sharon's suggestion after his 2001 election as Israeli Prime Minister—was a group euphemistically called "Emet" (Hebrew for "Truth"). In a March 13, 2001 dispatch, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported that Sharon wanted to launch a propaganda campaign to overturn the peace process, and the result was Emet. This black propaganda outfit for a "Greater Israel" has dismayed the Israeli peace lobby, because of its support for hard-line policies, such as those backed by Morton Klein and his Zionist Organization of America. Emet has both sent students to be indoctrinated at Tel Aviv University, and has worked with Birthright Israel International students.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.. The brother of Charles R. Bronfman is also a member of Mega. Their father, Sam Bronfman, was a leading figure in the "Jewish Navy," which brought high-ticket booze from Canada into the U.S. during Prohibition, before "going legit," by building a second fortune in distilling, among other activities. Edgar Bronfman took over the World Jewish Congress (WJC) following the death of Nahum Goldmann, and transformed the international organization into a political dirty tricks agency, which complemented his personal efforts to prop up the dying Communist regimes of Eastern Europe, especially East Germany. Bronfman's Seagrams Liquor had negotiated lucrative business deals with the Communist Party bosses of East Germany and the Soviet Union. Bronfman had also promoted what syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak labeled the "grain for Jews" deal between Moscow and Israel, which steered hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jewish emigrés into Israel (including a hefty percentage of Russian Mafiya criminals).

Ronald S. Lauder, heir to the Estée Lauder fortune. Lauder has used his millions to fund right-wing projects in the United States and Israel. According to a feature in the Jan. 29, 1996 issue of Jewish Week, based on a special investigation by reporters from Jewish Week and the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, Lauder had contributed both funds and other support to the Likud, when Netanyahu was running for Prime Minister (see "A Bigger Scandal: Illegal U.S. Funding of Sharon's Likud," EIR, Jan. 24). Among these illicit funding channels, was the Jerusalem-based Shalem Center, which Lauder has various founded, funded, and chaired; another Lauder conduit was the short-lived Israel Research Foundation. Lauder has been associated with Russian oligarch Berezovsky, who is one of the chief middlemen between "Godfather" Marc Rich and the Russian Mafiya dons. The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, which dispurses some $10 million a year, has received sufficient contributions from the family cosmetics fortune to maintain a slush fund of around $20 million.

Marc Rich, remains in Zug, Switzerland, despite his pardon. Rich's ties to the Russian Mafiya pre-date his flight from U.S. law enforcement. It was Rich who sponsored the original Russian Mafiya immigration to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, shortly after the U.S. Congress passed the Jackson-Vanik Amendment in 1974, linking all U.S.-Soviet trade to Moscow's treatment of Soviet Jewry, including emigration.

Leslie Wexner, another co-founder of Mega with Charles Bronfman. Among his several businesses, the best known is Victoria's Secret lingerie. Wexner is a board member of Lord Conrad Black's Hollinger International, Inc. media empire, which turned Israel's main English-language daily, the Jerusalem Post, into a mouthpiece for Sharon. Through Hollinger, Wexner rubs elbows with former British Prime Minister Lady Margaret Thatcher, Sir Henry Kissinger, and U.S. Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle (a.k.a. "The Prince of Darkness"), who loudly advocates a "Clash of Civilizations."

Gary Winnick is the founder of the telecom firm, Global Crossing, whose Jan. 28, 2002 bankruptcy was the fourth largest in U.S. history, with $12 billion in debt. Before this crash, Winnick, who was described in Fortune magazine as having "spent like a Roman emperor," dumped his own holdings in the firm and ended up with an estimated $250-500 million. According to a Feb. 11, 2002 BBC News wire on Winnick: "Global Crossing's ... main Congress beneficiary, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asked the Federal Communications Commission to encourage the development of undersea cables"—undersea fiber optic cables was Global Crossing's main asset.

Lew Wasserman is the former head of the Hollywood entertainment conglomerate Music Corporation of America (MCA), one of the Lansky National Crime Syndicate's first forays into the mass entertainment business. Wasserman was closely linked to Chicago-based crime syndicate lawyer Sidney Korshak, who was credited with consolidating the marriage between the mob and Hollywood.

Other Mega-linked Birthright Israel board members include: S. Daniel Abraham, Bonnie Lipton, Marlene Post, Arthur J. Samburg, and Lynn Schusterman.

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After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan
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