Andrew Joyce, Ph.D., a close student of current affairs, as well as a Political Scientist tells us about the key to political reality in Western Civilization, which is to say the Jew. They are the infiltrators using the techniques worked out by Antonio Gramsci to worm their way into the corridors of power, in order to abuse them. To say this means being abused as an Anti-Semite; it does not mean being wrong. In fact not all of them are criminals but a lot are even if they have not been convicted.

But this little piece is about the greedy ones who destroyed businesses and impoverished people while getting very rich. Here Doctor Joyce names a few of the grossest perpetrators in Philip Green, Jewish Criminality, and the Cost of Economic Parasitism.

 

Philip Green, Jewish Criminality, and the Cost of Economic Parasitism
Marc Rich fled America until he pardoned by Clinton
Marc Stuart Dreier whose specialty was defrauding hedge funds from which he stole $400 million
Sholam Weiss an expert in insurance fraud - got 845 years
Sholom Rubashkin whose kosher meat business was steeped in bank fraud, money laundering and the use of illegal immigrants and child labor
Scott W. Rothstein led an extravagant lifestyle and pumped millions into Jewish causes while heading a $1.2 billion pyramid scheme.
That’s without even casting a glance at the cases of
Samuel Mouli Cohen
Nevin Shapiro
Steve Cohen and Michael Steinberg & Steve Cohen
Maurice Hank Greenberg screwed American International Group
Eric Stein
Eliyahu Weinstein
Sam Israel
Sam Waksal
Martin R. Frankel
Simon Feldman
Jeffrey Greenstein
Cary Stephen Feldman
Chaim Mayer Lebovits - see $500M ‘insure-scam’ ring nailed
Bernie Madoff
David Levy And Donna Levy Found Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court Of Orchestrating Pump And Dump Stock Fraud

 

 

Frederick D. Berg -
Lou Pearlman,
Andrew Rosenfeld,  Jordan Belfort -  and
Timothy Roth -

 

Before counter-arguments are made that these crimes and activities are the sins of bankers and lawyers rather than Jews, consider the following cases from a range of professions and try to find another link.
David Silverstein was an already wealthy Washington chiropractor but made fraudulent welfare claims in order to pad his lifestyle a little more - #David Silverstein
Georgia chiropractor Andrew Sokol made over $6.5 million before he got caught - #Andrew Sokol
Another New Jersey chiropractor, Daniel Dahan, almost made it to $4 million - #Daniel H. Dahan
In Brooklyn, dentist Lawrence J. Bruckner was convicted of defrauding the Medicaid program by paying people $25–$30 to solicit homeless Medicaid patients and billing taxpayers under his son’s name for services never provided. Together with three other Jewish dentists, including his son, the group stole around $6.3 million from Medicaid.
By 2014 the problem of Jewish abuses of Medicaid in this manner reached a stage were a further four Russian-Jewish dentists were arrested under the instruction of the Attorney General - #a further four Russian-Jewish dentists
Outside Brooklyn, in Jacksonville, Florida, Howard Schneider was being arrested for identical crimes - #Howard Schneider - broken link

 

 

 

David Silverstein
A Seattle couple is trading their lakeside home for prison. A federal judge sentenced both Friday to 18 months in prison for a long-running welfare fraud scheme.

Having previously pleaded guilty to related offenses, chiropractor David Mark Silverstein and longtime partner Lyudmila Shimonova were caught defrauding federal assistance programs from the Lake Washington home they shared. Shimonova was using federal dollars to pay Silverstein thousands of dollars in “rent” during the eight-year fraud.

Silverstein, 60, was also fined $30,000 and must serve three years of supervision after he is released. Shimonova, 53, was ordered to pay more than $261,000 in restitution and must also serve three years of supervised release.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solomon Dwek ran a wholly imaginary real estate empire, based on the pyramid scheme, under multiple business names. A strongly-identified Jew, he was vice-president of the Deal Yeshiva in New Jersey and was well known for his philanthropy inside the Jewish community. He was eventually taken into custody in 2006 after the FBI discovered he was behind a $400 million investment scheme in properties he never actually owned, and had defrauded PNC Bank by over $50 million dollars. After arrest Dwek attempted to bargain his way to a lighter sentence, eventually turning informant on a wider fraud ring that included over twenty Jewish businessmen and a string of bribed local non-Jewish politicians. Among the FBI’s discoveries following a series of July 2009 arrests were that five Orthodox rabbis were complicit in laundering millions of plundered cash, some from Israel, via their synagogues and religious charities. According to the official complaint, one of them, Edmund Nahum of Brooklyn, apparently told Dwek that he should spread his money through a number of rabbis: “the more it’s spread the better.” Yolie Gertner, who acted as a courier moving laundered cash between the US and Israel, disappeared before just before the July 2009 arrests and is widely believed, as was Marc Rich, to be under the protection of the Israeli authorities.

In one of the FBIs more sinister discoveries, it was also revealed that some of the money found its way to Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn Jew who was selling human kidneys on the black market, a trade he later confessed to have been involved in for decades. Ralph J. Marra Jr., the acting United States attorney in New Jersey, stated that Rosenbaum’s “business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000, which he would turn around and sell for $160,000.” These gory profits would then be “cleaned” via the synagogues and the cash distributed once more into the Jewish network. Overlapping layers of Jewish political and social influence had concealed this rampant corruption for decades, with Marra stating at a news conference that average citizens “don’t have a chance” against the culture of “influence peddling” the investigation had unearthed. As in the Rich case, this influence extended to grumblings of an anti-Semitic FBI, eventually forcing Weysun Dun, head of the FBI in New Jersey, to state that the FBI had no religious ax to grind. Jewish media commentary sweated at the case’s potential to stir anti-Semitism, with Business Insider writer Moe Tkacik eventually concluding that because Dwek had once given money to the non-Jewish family of a 7-year old boy dying of cancer, the Dwek case might not be as bad as it could be since “the kid was a goy. The goyim totally lose it over stories like this.”

Astute readers will see the tactical advantages of comparatively minimal and occasional Jewish donations to emotive non-Jewish causes. In keeping with the pattern witnessed in the Rich case, although initially facing 30 years behind bars, Dwek walked free after 30 months.

In a separate but again almost identical case, Steven Byers and Joseph “Yossi” Shereshevsky, co-founders of Wex-Trust, were charged in 2008 with defrauding more than 1,100 investors of about $255 million in a real estate pyramid scheme. The Jewish community of Norfolk, Virginia, from which the pair operated, immediately closed ranks. Refusing to co-operate with the authorities, The Virginian Pilot reported that “at the first Saturday service after Shereshevsky’s arrest, Rabbi Chaim Silver reminded the B’nai Israel congregation that Judaism forbids lashon hara, otherwise known as gossip or evil speech.”

What The Virginian Pilot wasn’t apparently aware of was that lashon hara has a specific meaning in the context of scrutiny by non-Jews, in the sense that the Talmudic consensus on Leviticus/Vaikra 19:16 is that it is forbidden to speak ill of fellow Jews to the Gentiles. It is thus an injunction to close ranks and protect the group rather than a general injunction against gossip. Part of it also lay in that fact that, like Rich and Dwek, both were pillars of the Jewish community and heavily invested much of their ill-gotten wealth into communal assets. The pair helped establish an Orthodox day school in Portsmouth named after Shereshevsky’s father, the Rabbi Chaim Shereshevsky Institute of Mesorah Learning. The pair also sponsored a summer day camp for local children, and even sent a private jet to Jamaica to rescue an Orthodox teen who said he was being abused at a reform school. Wex-Trust was itself a communal enterprise, with The Virginian Pilot reporting that the pair assembled a sales team that “included the scions of some of the region’s prominent Orthodox families.” When the scheme began unravelling in August 2008, the FBI apprehended Shereshevsky while he was, like Marc Rich and Yolie Gertner, leaving for Israel. He had no return ticket.

I could continue with similar cases like that of Marc Dreier whose specialty was defrauding hedge funds from which he stole $400 million, Sholam Weiss an expert in insurance fraud, or Sholom Rubashkin whose kosher meat business was steeped in bank fraud, money laundering and the use of illegal immigrants and child labor. I could spend many hundreds of pages exploring the activities of Scott Rothstein, who led an extravagant lifestyle and pumped millions into Jewish causes while heading a $1.2 billion pyramid scheme. That’s without even casting a glance at the cases of Samuel “Mouli” Cohen, Nevin Shapiro, Steve Cohen and Michael Steinberg, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, Eric Stein, Eliyahu Weinstein, Sam Israel, Samuel D. Waksal, Martin Frankel, Simon Feldman, Jeffrey Greenstein, Cary Feldman, Chaim Mayer Lebovits, Bernie Madoff, David and Donna Levy, Frederick D. Berg, Lou Pearlman, Andrew Rosenfeld,  Jordan Belfort, and Timothy Roth.

Before counter-arguments are made that these crimes and activities are the sins of bankers and lawyers rather than Jews, consider the following cases from a range of professions and try to find another link. David Silverstein was an already wealthy Washington chiropractor but made fraudulent welfare claims in order to pad his lifestyle a little more. Georgia chiropractor Andrew Sokol made over $6.5 million before he got caught. New Jersey chiropractor Scott Greenberg made more than half a million dollars in insurance scams before he was detected. Another New Jersey chiropractor, Daniel Dahan, almost made it to $4 million. In Brooklyn, dentist Lawrence J. Bruckner ` was convicted of defrauding the Medicaid program by paying people $25–$30 to solicit homeless Medicaid patients and billing taxpayers under his son’s name for services never provided. Together with three other Jewish dentists, including his son, the group stole around $6.3 million from Medicaid. By 2014 the problem of Jewish abuses of Medicaid in this manner reached a stage were a further four Russian-Jewish dentists were arrested under the instruction of the Attorney General. Outside Brooklyn, in Jacksonville, Florida, Howard Schneider was being arrested for identical crimes.

Despite lackluster Jewish apologetics on this issue (Abraham Foxman’s Jews and Money: Story of a Stereotype bring a particularly risible example) white-collar crime and a seemingly insatiable drive for wealth accumulation has been well-established by empirical academic studies as the most prominent feature of the Jewish socio-criminal profile. In 1971 A. Menachem of the Berkeley School of Criminology published a study in Issues in Criminology titled “Criminality Among Jews: An Overview.”[1] In this study, Menachem argued that ‘the Jewish crime rate tends to be higher than that of non-Jews and other religious groups for white-collar offenses, that is, commercial or commercially related crimes, such as fraud, fraudulent bankruptcy, and embezzlement.” In 1988, Yale University’s Stanton Wheeler published “White-Collar Crimes and Criminals” for the Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository.. Among Wheeler’s findings were that while Protestants and Catholics were under-represented among white-collar criminals relative to their share of the population, Jews were over-represented to a very large degree (2% of the population, 15.2% of white-collar convictions). Wheeler states that “It would be a fair summary of our data to say that, demographically speaking, white-collar offenders are predominantly middle-aged white males with an over-representation of Jews.”

WhWhile Stanton’s statistics are enlightening in themselves, a more detailed picture emerges in David Weisburd’s Yale-published Crimes of the Middle Classes: White-Collar Offenders in the Federal Courts (1991). Here Weisburd informs us that although Jews comprise only around 2% of the United States population, they contribute at least 9% of lower category white-collar crimes (bank embezzlement, tax fraud and bank fraud), at least 15% of moderate category white-collar crimes (mail fraud, false claims, and bribery), and at least 33% of high category white-collar crimes (antitrust and securities fraud). Weisburg’s updated data showed that overall, Jews were responsible for an astonishing 23.9% of financial crime in America.[2]

Given the statistical data, not to mention the well-charted historical trajectory of Jewish financial behavior,[3] the argument that a Jewish predilection for financial misdeeds is a mere “canard” is totally unsustainable. The “canard” strategy in fact perpetuates a fallacy designed to conceal widespread crimes of considerable cost to non-Jews, and should itself be seen as an extension of the Jewish socio-criminal profile.

Contrary to Jewish accounts and apologetics, it is actually empirical data, rather than blind prejudice, that suggests that Jewish economic activity is disproportionately criminal and, indeed, parasitic. Given that a large amount of narrative evidence and anecdotal case studies indicate that the majority of illegal monies are diverted into Jewish causes to serve Jewish interests, it is clear that Jewish financial criminality involves a large transfer of wealth from non-Jewish economies to more insular Jewish micro-economies. Combining the Yale studies with FBI estimates that white-collar crime costs the United States more than $300 billion annually, and taking into consideration the great preponderance of Jews in the worst tier of financial crime, one arrives at the conclusion that the financial burden of detected Jewish white-collar criminality is somewhere between $75–$100 billion each year. Figures from other White nations can be considered to be proportionally similar given the pattern of Jewish wealth worldwide. This figure also doesn’t take into account those Jews whose endeavors remain undetected, or those whose practices are deeply immoral but manage somehow to stay on the lucky side of the law. And it is to an example of one of these malicious but “at large” characters that we now turn our attention.

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2016/05/philip-green-jewish-criminality-and-the-cost-of-economic-parasitism-part-2/

 

Before long, Green and his backers had taken over almost every major British clothing retailer, forming the Arcadia Group as an umbrella organization to oversee the new empire. He was by now a billionaire. Green found himself the darling of the agents of globalism and a string of politicians and celebrities mesmerized by the trappings of wealth. Possessing little in the way of subtlety, Green became well-known for his extravagant parties, where guests included supermodels and Oscar winners, and the entertainment was live performances by the likes of Stevie Wonder and Rod Stewart, among others. For his son’s Bar Mitzvah in 2005, Green  spent over $5 million on a French Riviera party featuring performances by Andrea Bocelli and Destiny’s Child. Extravagant, of course, but money was plentiful because Green and his associates had found a way to escape paying around £300 million in taxes.

In an excellent article in The Guardian, journalist Michael White writes that British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron were “in thrall to Green,” a man he describes as a “tax-dodging, undeserving parasite” and whose taste in material goods is “embarrassingly vulgar.” According to White, Blair was a “credulous sucker for a rich man with tax-shy habits,” giving Green a knighthood in 2006.

The advent of Sir Philip Green was a mockery indeed given that the concept of the “knighthood” originated in the Middle Ages, when it was conferred upon a man for service to his country, normally in a military capacity. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior. Contrast this with our greasy merchant, who was by 2006 well-known for a tax-avoidance dividend scheme that enabled him to profit from foreign-made goods being sold in Britain, without paying any tax into the British system. Green, however, fits the pattern of other figures we have examined in that he facilitates the transfer of wealth from non-Jewish economies to Jewish micro-economies. To cite just one example, there is his £5 million donation to Jewish Care.[2]

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[[1] A.E. Steinweis, Studying the Jew: Scholarly anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, (Harvard University Press, 2006), p.139.

[2] L. Barclay, The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Philip Green Way, (Capstone, 2010), p.134-5.

 

 

 

 

 

Philip Green, An Ugly, Fat, Rich Jew & Parasite Explained [ 11 May 2016 ]
Green has just sold off the mortal remains of BHS after a major Asset Stripping operation. See Fat Jew Bungs Wife £400 Million As BHS Goes Bankrupt. Doctor Joyce explains how Jews carry out their parasitical work. He mentions:-
Marc Dreier - defrauded hedge funds, stealing $400 million
Sholam Weiss - insurance fraud
Sholom Rubashkin - bank fraud, money laundering, use of illegal immigrants and child labor
Scott Rothstein - ran a $1.2 billion pyramid scheme
Bernie Madoff - world record thief, stole $50 billion
Nevin Shapiro
Steve Cohen and Michael Steinberg
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg
Eric Stein
Eliyahu Weinstein........ and others.
You just might see a pattern of behaviour here. As Leona Helmsley, another rich Jew said: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marc Stuart Dreier ex Wiki - Jew
Marc Stuart Dreier (born May 12, 1950) is a former American lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2009 for committing investment fraud using a Ponzi scheme. He is scheduled to be released from FCI Sandstone on October 26, 2026.^[1][2][3] On May 11, 2009, he pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to eight charges of fraud,^[4][5] which included one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, one count of money laundering, one count of securities fraud, and five counts of wire fraud in a scheme to sell $700 million in fictitious promissory notes.^[6][7] Civil charges, filed in December 2008 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are pending.^[6]

He is the sole equity partner of the dissolved law firm Dreier, LLP.^{[8][9][10][11]} After being suspended from the New York Bar on December 23, 2008, the New York Supreme Court formally disbarred Dreier on October 8, 2009, effective nunc pro tunc to May 11, 2009. He had been admitted on May 5, 1976.^[1[12]

PS Before starting his own firm he worked for Duker & Barrett, which was run by another thief. The founding partner, William Duker, pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud called "one of the most serious cases of legal fraud" ever prosecuted. See e.g. Prison Term for Lawyer Who Overcharged U.S.

 

Sholam Weiss ex Wiki - Jew
Sholam Weiss (also spelled Shalom Weiss; born April 1, 1954) is an American former businessman and convicted felon. In 2000, he was convicted of multiple fraud and money laundering counts and sentenced to 845 years in prison for looting the National Heritage Life Insurance Company of over $450 million.^[1] It was believed to be the largest insurance failure in history at the time.^[2] Weiss fled the country at the end of his trial and was a fugitive for one year. He was subsequently extradited from Austria.

The sentence imposed on Weiss is believed to be the longest known to have ever been imposed for a white-collar crime.^[2] It is also believed to be the longest criminal sentence ever imposed at the federal level in American history.^[3] Weiss was convicted of 78 counts including racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering and ordered to pay $125 million in restitution and $123 million in penalties. About a dozen individuals were convicted for involvement in the collapse; another defendant, Keith Pound, received a 750-year sentence, and $139 million in restitution. Pound died in prison in 2004 at age 51. Federal cooperators Michael Blutrich and Lyle Pfeffer received reduced sentences of 200 months ^[4] and served their terms in the Federal Witness Security Program.

 

Sholom Rubashkin ex Wiki - Jew
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin (born October 6, 1959)^[1] is an American former chief executive officer of Agriprocessors, a now-bankrupt kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, formerly owned by his father, Aaron Rubashkin. During his time as CEO of the plant, Agriprocessors grew into the largest kosher meat producer in the United States, but was also cited for issues involving animal treatment, food safety, environmental safety, child labor, and hiring of illegal workers.^{[citation needed]}

In November 2009, Rubashkin was convicted of 86 counts of financial fraud, including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud and money laundering. In June 2010, he was sentenced to 27 years in prison. In a separate trial, he was acquitted of knowingly hiring underage workers. He is currently serving his sentence in Otisville, New York. In January 2011, his lawyers filed an appeal; on September 16, 2011, the appeals court ruled against Rubashkin. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from that ruling on October 1, 2012.
PS Rubashkin is an exceptionally nasty bit of work absolutely determined to do whatever it took to stay out of prison.

 

Scott W. Rothstein ex Wiki - Jew
Scott W. Rothstein (born June 10, 1962) is a disbarred lawyer and the former managing shareholder, chairman, and chief executive officer of the now-defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm. He was accused of funding his philanthropy, political contributions, law firm salaries, and an extravagant lifestyle with a massive 1.2 billion dollar Ponzi scheme, one of the largest such in history.^[1] On December 1, 2009, Rothstein turned himself in to authorities and was subsequently arrested on charges related to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).^[2] Although his arraignment plea was not guilty, Rothstein cooperated with the Government and reversed his plea to guilty of five federal crimes on January 27, 2010.^[3] Rothstein was denied bond by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin Rosenbaum, who ruled that due to his ability to forge documents, he was considered a flight risk.
PS He got 50 years.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/01/samuel-mouli-cohen-sentence-prison_n_1467105.html broken link

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevin_Shapiro

Nevin Shapiro ex Wiki - Jew
Nevin Karey Shapiro (born April 13, 1969) is a former University of Miami football booster who is currently imprisoned for orchestrating a $930 million Ponzi scheme. According to interviews, he engaged in rampant violations of NCAA rules over eight years as a booster for University of Miami athletes.^[1][2] Shapiro allegedly provided cash, goods, prostitutes, assorted favors and on one occasion, an abortion to University of Miami football players, and even purchased a yacht on which sex parties with prostitutes were held.

 

Steve Cohen and Michael Steinberg 

Steve Cohen has to be “public enemy number one.”

Last week, one of Cohen’s top lieutenants, Michael Steinberg, was indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiring to commit securities fraud. The fraud allowed him to pocket $1.4 million in profits, as Kaja Whitehouse reported in the New York Post.........

In other words, will the same FBI agents soon be using their handcuffs on Cohen? The illegal activity at SAC has been pervasive: at least nine current or former SAC traders and analysts are linked to illegal trades, according to Bloomberg. “That’s a sizable universe of people who could potentially incriminate Cohen,” wrote reporters Patricia Hurtado and David Glovin.

The Fed’s case against SAC has already been questioned. In fact, the federal judge reviewing SAC’s $600 million civil settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission questioned how the SEC could accept such a large payment without an admission of wrongdoing.

http://www.forbes.com/profile/steve-cohen/ holds circa $12.7 billion

 

 

Maurice “Hank” Greenberg

http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/westlaw-legal-research/practitioner-insights

http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/westlaw-legal-research/practitioner-insights nbg

 

Veteran Fraudster Collared in Alleged Dog and Cat Scam - ABC News.htm

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/veteran-fraudster-collared-alleged-dog-cat-scam/story?id=15430428 eric stein

Eric Stein
Flamboyant con artist Eric Stein, who served six years in prison after stealing as much as $50 million in a telemarketing fraud, is back in federal custody after allegedly inventing a new scam that preyed on the love of pet owners for their lost pets.

Stein was arrested Tuesday on charges that he duped thousands of victims into investing in franchises of Return-A-Pet, in which the would-be entrepreneurs would sell pet owners dog and cat collars stamped with a telephone number. Owners would be reunited with their lost pets when callers used the Return-A-Pet number. According to authorities, there was no Return-A-Pet pet registry or any real franchise business.

In Las Vegas in the 1990s, Stein drove a different Bentley and wore a different Rolex for each day of the week while running what Fortune magazine called the biggest investment con in Nevada history. Nearly 2,000 investors lost $34 million to $50 million by sending Stein money to buy direct-response TV ads for gadgets like a pet vacuum and a Christmas tree fire alarm.

 

Eliyahu Weinstein
Defrauded Investors in Multiple States and Abroad; Defendant Faces
Up to 25 Years in Prison

TRENTON, N.J. – An Ocean County, N.J., man today admitted that he ran a real estate investment fraud scheme that caused $200 million in losses and then laundered the proceeds of the scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Eliyahu Weinstein, a/k/a “Eli Weinstein,” a/k/a “Edward Weinstein,” a/k/a “Eddie Weinstein,” 37, of Lakewood, N.J., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano in Trenton federal court to two counts of the Indictment pending against him: one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and one count of money laundering. Weinstein’s trial on these charges was scheduled to start Jan. 7, 2013. Weinstein’s co-defendant, Vladimir Siforov, is charged in the Indictment with three counts of wire fraud and remains a fugitive.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, which Judge Pisano accepted today, Weinstein may be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison and up to three years of supervised release. He must also provide a full accounting of all monies paid to him during the period covered by the Indictment. Weinstein has also agreed to forfeit $2 million in seized property and pay restitution to the victims of his offenses. Sentencing is scheduled for April 2, 2013.

“Weinstein shamelessly exploited investors’ trust, using doctored documents for properties he didn’t own – including in a town that doesn’t exist – and continued to commit crimes while out on bail,” U.S. Attorney Fishman said. “With false promises of sound investments and charitable donations, he stole $200 million, spending freely on fancy cars, jewelry and gambling trips. And in using victims’ money to collect Judaica, Weinstein robbed from his own community’s present to stockpile artifacts of its past.”

 

Sam Israel Jew, stole $450 million
Samuel Israel III (born July 20, 1959) is an American born former hedge fund manager for the Bayou Hedge Fund Group, which he founded in 1996.

Biography
Israel was born into a prominent Jewish family from New Orleans.^[1]

In 1996, Israel founded the Bayou Hedge Fund Group, which raised $450 million from its investors and for which Israel was CEO. Bayou and Israel misappropriated these funds for personal use, running what would later be revealed as a Ponzi scheme. After poor returns in 1998, the firm founded a dummy accounting firm, which they hired to audit themselves in order to keep up appearances to investors.^[2]

In 2005, Bayou was indicted for one of the largest hedge fund frauds in American history. On September 29, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed charges against Bayou, Israel, and Bayou CFO Daniel Marino.^[3] The next year, the hedge fund filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-court protection.^[4]

On April 14, 2008, Israel was sentenced to 20 years in prison for and ordered to forfeit $300 million after pleading guilty to defrauding investors in his now-bankrupt firm.^[5]

 

Crooked Jew Fakes Suicide Badly
Convicted: Fraud in April 2008
Sam Israel III, 49, didn't hear any fat lady sing. After his conviction for defrauding investors of more than $450 million, the Connecticut-based executive decided 20 years in prison wasn't quite his style. Instead of reporting for jail in June 2008, he faked his own suicide — not very well, it must be said — by leaving his SUV on a bridge in upstate New York with the message "Suicide is Painless" (from the M.A.S.H. theme song) scrawled on the vehicle's dusty hood. Israel never really had authorities fooled. Video captured by a nearby security camera showed another car pulling up behind his GMC Envoy shortly before it was abandoned; police suspected it was a getaway car being driven by an accomplice. Days later, Israel's girlfriend Debra Ryan was arrested in connection with his disappearance. Finally, after about a month on the lam (and a place of honor on the U.S. Marshals' most wanted list), Israel rode a scooter to a Southwick, Mass. police station on July 2 and turned himself in at his mother's urging. She had been in touch with U.S. Marshals to let them know she had spoken to her son and coaxed him to do the right thing. For failing to report to prison, Israel faces an additional 10 years behind bars; he will be sentenced June 24.

 

Bernie Ebbers - Not a Jew(?)
Convicted: 03/15/2005 on nine counts of conspiracy, securities fraud and making false regulatory filings

Note to aspiring CEOs: If your company is staggering under massive debt, don't orchestrate an $11 billion accounting fraud to try to cover it up. It doesn't' work.

Bernie Ebbers turned WorldCom into the nation's second largest long distance telecommunications company through a series of rapid acquisitions that left it heavily in the red. In 2002, the Mississippi-based company admitted to improperly reporting $3.8 billion in expenses, prompting Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into its business practices. The Securities Exchange Commission, meanwhile, focused on $400 million that WorldCom personally loaned Ebbers.

WorldCom eventually filed for bankruptcy, and its stock price tumbled from $64 per share to a little over $1. Ebbers' "I had no idea what was going on" defense didn't work; he was convicted of securities fraud, conspiracy and seven counts of filing false reports with regulators. Ebbers is now serving a 25-year sentence in a minimum-security Louisiana prison..

 

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/david-s-harp/.premium-1.667221

How an Israeli Supermarket Joined the Likes of Enron and Worldcom
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/david-s-harp/.premium-1.667221

 

 

 

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1903155_1903156_1903172,00.html

Sam Waksal
Convicted: October 15, 2002 of securities fraud, bank fraud, obstruction of justice, and perjury

Known for his networking skills as much as for his scientific expertise, immunologist Sam Waksal founded ImClone in 1984. The New York-based biotech firm remained relatively unknown until 1999, when it announced the creation of Erbitux — a cancer-fighting drug so promising it convinced pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers to purchase $1 billion of ImClone stock in one of the largest biotechnology partnerships in U.S. history. But when the Food and Drug Administration rejected the drug, Waksal alerted several relatives and friends to dump their stock as soon as possible — before the FDA's decision had been made public. Waksal's father and daughter sold $9.2 million worth of ImClone, a move that caught the attention of the SEC and eventually led to his arrest.

Though Waksal pleaded guilty and publicly apologized to his family, his colleagues, and the millions of cancer patients who had held such high hopes for Erbitux, Judge William Pauley dismissed calls for leniency, noting that Waksal had contributed a mere one-half of 1 percent of his $133 million fortune to charity. In the end, the fallen entrepreneur paid $4.3 million in fines and tax restitution, and served 87 months in prison; he was released on Feb. 9, 2009. The scandal's most infamous casualty, however, turned out to be Waksal's pal, Martha Stewart, who had unloaded all 3,928 of her company shares just days before the FDA's decision had been announced to avoid losing an estimated $45,673; the domestic diva got five months in prison as a result.
PS More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_D._Waksal

 

Martin R. Frankel News - The New York Times.htm

Martin R. Frankel Onetime Fugitive Gets 17 Years for Looting Insurers

By ALISON LEIGH COWAN

NEW HAVEN, Dec. 10 - Capping a bizarre tale that stretched from Greenwich, Conn., to Hamburg, Germany, Martin R. Frankel apologized in a courtroom on Friday for having looted $200 million from insurance companies he owned and received a prison sentence of nearly 17 years.

Senior Judge Ellen Bree Burns of Federal District Court imposed a term of 16 years and 8 months on Mr. Frankel, who used embezzled cash to finance his lavish lifestyle and then became an international fugitive. Sixteen of his accomplices have been convicted so far.

Before making her decision, the judge heard a long meandering statement of remorse from Mr. Frankel and testimony about his mental health and the size of the losses inflicted by his schemes.

Throughout the day's testimony, Mr. Frankel, who is 50, sat attentively in a brown leather chair, scribbling notes on a pad he had brought into the court in plastic sheeting because of the rain. Looking wan, he wore a tan prison-issued outfit with a blue jacket and had a fresh haircut.

"I want to apologize to everybody," he said, addressing victims of his fraud, which he continued out of habit to refer to as "my insurance companies" and "my policyholders."

"The last thing I wanted to have happen to my insurance companies was to have them go under," he said.

Mr. Frankel has been in jail since the authorities found him in Germany, carrying millions of dollars of diamonds and 12 passports bearing different names along with his picture. He fled the country in May 1999 after insurance regulators from Mississippi became suspicious. Authorities found the Greenwich compound where he operated his businesses deserted and fished out of the smoldering wreckage a to-do note saying "launder money."

He spent a year and a half in prison in Germany for having failed to pay taxes on the smuggled diamonds and for carrying the fake passports. He was extradited to the United States to be tried on fraud and racketeering charges.

Kevin J. O'Connor, the United States attorney for Connecticut, and John H. Durham, his deputy, presented evidence on Friday that Mr. Frankel used subterfuge to drain $200 million in assets from several insurance companies he acquired during the 1990's.

Mr. Frankel's court-appointed lawyer, Bill Koch, tried to counter that estimate because a loss above $80 million weighs heavily in sentencing. But the judge sided with the prosecutors.

She also agreed with two expert witnesses who concluded that Mr. Frankel knew right from wrong and could control his behavior despite some signs of mental disorder.

Mr. Koch sought to draw sympathy for his client by noting how stark the contrast was to his former life. Specifically, he noted that Mr. Frankel had only one unpaid supporter in the courtroom Friday. "That's all he has," Mr. Koch told the court, pointing out Joseph Ghattie, Mr. Frankel's former driver.

Later, Mr. Ghattie told reporters that his former boss was "a good man" and that he was there to "cheer him up."

The judge did not seem persuaded. Nor did she accept the argument that Mr. Frankel deserved a break because he claimed that conditions in the German prison had been harsh.

The judge did take into consideration the acknowledgement by prosecutors that Mr. Frankel had sought to assist them in recovering assets and pursuing his accomplices. But Mr. O'Connor said that given Mr. Frankel's roundabout way of answering questions, he would have made a poor witness at trial.

The most bizarre 45 minutes took place when the judge allowed Mr. Frankel to address the court. He used the opportunity to settle old scores, quote the Bible, crack a joke and plead for leniency. He said most of his misdeeds were caused by his love for a co-conspirator, Sonia Howe, and his desire to earn enough money to protect her two children from harm. The judge was a bit incredulous.

"So, you stole $209 million in order to take care of the children?" she said.

"No," he said. "Can I explain it to you?"

"I'm begging you to explain it to me," the judge said.

Mr. Frankel explained that once he began faking financial statements, the scheme would have unraveled had he stopped.

Mr. Frankel advised the judge to show compassion and to consider that punishment for the sake of deterrence does not work for the mentally ill. "If somebody is mentally ill," he said, "you shouldn't punish them because it won't stop other mentally ill people from doing it."

 

$16m retail fraud claim.htm

http://www.theage.com.au/business/16m-retail-fraud-claim-20090708-dde4.html

Simon Feldman  , Simon Feldman.

THE listed retailer behind 850 women's fashion outlets including Katies and Miller's Fashion Club may be a step closer to tracking down the $16.6 million allegedly siphoned from it over the past five years by its former property chief, Simon Feldman.

Yesterday a provisional liquidator was appointed to two of Mr Feldman's private companies that are among a handful believed to have benefited from the alleged fraud on Specialty Fashion Group (SFG).

The appointment of Michael Smith and Peter Hillig from Smith Hancock Chartered Accountants may help SFG unravel Mr Feldman's private business empire and trace the funds alleged to have been funnelled through a complex web of companies.

SFG alleges long-time senior executive Mr Feldman, 42, stole from the company by invoicing the listed retailers for store renovations that never took place, using fictitious addresses.

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It alleges that he pocketed some of the money and used the rest to prop up his private businesses, which include a document storage company in Fairfield and another based in Alexandria that recycles old tyres to make matting for child ren's playgrounds.

SFG hopes the liquidators will be able to help track down the two companies' assets, and bank statements as well as trust deeds to the Feldman Family Trust and of the family trust belonging to Mr Feldman's co-director and business part ner, Richard Bamford, and his wife, Patricia Yanon.

Mr Bamford has been accused of being complicit in the fraud with Mr Feldman.

Both Mr Feldman and Mr Bamford and their wives have had their assets frozen.

Mr Feldman has also handed his passport to the NSW Supreme Court.

A series of companies that run the recycling and document storage businesses are now in danger of collapse, having defaulted on equipment leases and admitted that they have laid off staff for lack of funds.

Counsel for SFG Robert Beech-Jones told a court hear ing in May that Mr Feldman's companies were "shovelling money (around) but what money has been shovelled where is a mystery".

He said there was "a real suggestion" Mr Feldman may have been "washing" money through various private company bank accounts.

The appointment of liquidators to the two companies was triggered by Mr Bamford, who claims it was the only way to break the deadlock between himself and Mr Feldman.

In a submission by a company controlled by Mr Bamford, it is alleged that "Mr Feldman has admitted the fraud alleged by SFG, whereas the other direc tor, Mr Bamford, has not".

Mr Feldman is alleged to have told Mr Bamford that he could not afford to appoint a receiver to four of their com panies. "My wife is out selling her jewellery to put food on the table," Mr Feldman is alleged to have told Mr Bamford.

Last month Mr Feldman put the five-bedroom Vaucluse house he shares with his wife Camilla on the market for $3.65million. It is owned by his wife.

SFG claims some of the allegedly misappropriated funds may have been used to pay down the mortgage.

There is no suggestion that Camilla Feldman was aware of her husband's alleged fraud. The case returns to the NSW Supreme Court tomorrow.

 

 

Sunday Buzz _ Tax-fraud figure has lesson for UW business students _ Seattle Times Newspaper.htm

http://old.seattletimes.com/html/sundaybuzz/2013703636_sundaybuzz19.html

http://old.seattletimes.com/html/sundaybuzz/2013703636_sundaybuzz19.html  Jeffrey Greenstein, former CEO of Quellos G

 

 

South Dakota State News Home.htm 

http://news.sd.gov/newsitem.aspx?id=13669

Cary Stephen Feldman Cary Stephen Feldman,

PIERRE, S.D. – Attorney General Marty Jackley announced today that an optometrist who practiced in Rapid City has pleaded guilty to two felonies involving Medicaid fraud.

 

Cary Stephen Feldman, OD, 60, Spearfish, entered a guilty plea to grand theft by deception, a class 4 felony punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment and/or a $20,000 fine, and making false claims, a class 5 felony punishable by up to five years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine.

 

A change-of-plea hearing was the result of a plea agreement with the Attorney General’s Office. As part of the agreement, Feldman agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $362,457.90 to South Dakota’s Medicaid program, and $592.00 to the federal Medicare program.

 

Feldman admitted in court that he knowingly and intentionally submitted false claims to the South Dakota Medicaid program and to Medicare. Feldman admitted that he submitted claims to Medicaid and to Medicare for consultation services, even though he had not provided the services. Feldman began submitting the false claims in late 2008, and continued until early 2012.

 

In a related case, Feldman’s former optometric assistant, Robin L. Lamb, 50, Spearfish, pleaded guilty on Aug. 20, 2012, in Lawrence County to one count of failure to keep records, a class 1 misdemeanor. Lamb also agreed to pay $35,000 in restitution to the State. Lamb received a suspended imposition of sentence.

 

Feldman is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 3, 2012.

 

The case is being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s South Dakota Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with assistance from the South Dakota Department of Social Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, Division of Criminal Investigation, Spearfish Police Department, Rapid City Police Department, Pennington County Sheriff’s Office, Pennington County States Attorney, Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office, and South Dakota Office of the United States Attorney.

 

 

 

 

 

 

$500M ‘insure-scam’ ring nailed _ New York Post.htm

Chaim Mayer Lebovits

http://nypost.com/2011/02/24/500m-insure-scam-ring-nailed/  Chaim Mayer Lebovits,

Greedy life-insurance agents took out huge policies on penniless seniors, and then asked them to fake illnesses so they’d seem more likely to die, as part of a $500 million scam, investigators said yesterday.

The fraudsters sought to cheat not only the insurance companies, from whom they reaped huge commissions, but also investors looking to buy the policies on the secondary market, postal inspectors said in mail-fraud charges filed against eight defendants in Brooklyn federal court.

Chaim Mayer Lebovits, of Liberty Planning, in Monsey, NY, facilitated the purchase of policies on behalf of the elderly “straw buyers,” according to the complaint.

He and seven other defendants were released on bail yesterday.

 

 

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/07/is-the-madoff-scandal-paradigmatic/

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/07/is-the-madoff-scandal-paradigmatic/ yes

The current TOO article by John Graham and me, “Is the Madoff Scandal Paradigmatic?,” reviews 8 books on the Bernie Madoff scandal. From the beginning, there was a pronounced Jewish angle to the media coverage of the scandal—mainly emphasizing that Madoff was a Jew who stole from other Jews. However, this review (for which the lion’s share of the credit goes to Mr. Graham), explores the far greater depth of Jewishness apparent in the incident. Here I review several important themes.

Contrary to the image in the media, the scandal in fact was a large scale transfer of wealth from non-Jews to Jews. The big money that entered the fund beginning in the 1990s was predominantly from non-Jews, and especially from Europe. In the end, according to whistle blower Henry Markopolos,the European losses were “substantially more than losses in the United States.” We suggest that the attraction of wealthy, aristocratic Europeans may have been an example of the “court Jew” phenomenon: “For centuries it was customary for aristocratic landowners, particularly in Eastern Europe, to delegate the task of managing the businesses operations on their estates to Jews, sometimes using the same families for generations.”

Madoff succeeded for so long because he had become a classic Jewish rabbi/guru who was idolized as God-like by the Jewish community. The Jewish community “regarded Bernie like a messiah. He was spoken of as if godlike.” This is a common feature of Jewish social structure generally—and much emphasized in The Culture of Critique. Just as people who questioned the Oedipal Complex were expelled from psychoanalytic societies and labeled as having various character flaws, an Israeli woman who questioned Madoff’s genius was called an “anti-Semite.”

Interestingly, quite a few of Madoff’s Jewish clients seem to have believed that it was a fraud or at least based on illegal activity such as “front-running” (trading ahead of client orders). “Many Madoff accounts thought they were safely benefitting from illegal activity — and did not care.” They seem to have thought of themselves as benefiting from Jewish ethnic networking where there has been a long tradition of failing to report illegal activities of other Jews— an offence known as Mesirah (informing).

Perhaps most explosively, we suggest that Madoff was protected because of the power of the Jewish community:

The Bernard Madoff matter was one about which a significant segment of Jewish America cared very much — some for financial reasons, others, perhaps, because of community pride and loyalty. Challenging this group was well known to be extremely dangerous. As in other matters, they awarded themselves a veto, and they used it — as it happened in this case, to their cost. All in all, the Madoff affair and the cover-up is another indication of Jewish power in America.

 

For example, Henry Markopolos, in his aptly titled No One Would Listen, comments

 

In my mind, at least, I was convinced that someone high up at the [Wall Street] Journal had decided it was too dangerous to go after Bernie Madoff. … I was finally beginning to consider the possibility that Bernie Madoff was untouchable — that he was simply too powerful to be brought down.

 

Madoff was investigated eight times by the SEC, but each investigation was inexplicably stopped. Sen. Charles Schumer seems to have been part of the power structure protecting Madoff. Madoff and his sons maxed out their contributions to Schumer. Schumer phoned the SEC on Madoff’s  behalf,  and he treated Markopolos with incredible rudeness during Senate hearings — not exactly the expected treatment toward someone who was right all along.

What has been portrayed as SEC incompetence now looks quite a bit like corruption. “We submit that the SEC failed to stop Madoff not because it was incompetent, but because it was afraid — of the Jewish Establishment.” It seems likely that even greater corruption was involved in the financial collapse that has been such an ongoing disaster for the country. The fact that Goldman Sachs managed to settle its involvement in one particular deal with a slap on the wrist.

Consistent  with the corruption thesis, it appears that Madoff’s accomplices will get off easy. Amazingly, an article that appeared too late to include in the print version questioned whether anyone will be criminally charged with being an accomplice to the fraud. Bernie is taking the fall all by himself, but it wouldn’t be too surprising if there’s lots of money stashed for his family members.

Perhaps in the back of Madoff’s mind was the idea — possibly the instinct — that after a few years, perhaps in a different country, maybe speaking a different language, his family would live on, possibly with a new name (surname changes are under way among the Madoff kin) and perhaps with some portion of the loot.

 

 

 

David Levy And Donna Levy Found Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court Of Orchestrating “Pump And Dump” Stock Fraud Schemes _ USAO-SDNY _ Department of Justice.htm

David Levy And Donna Levy Found Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court Of Orchestrating Pump And Dump Stock Fraud

David Levy And Donna Levy Found Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court Of Orchestrating “Pump And Dump” Stock Fraud Schemes

David Levy Also Convicted Of International Money Laundering Scheme

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID LEVY and DONNA LEVY were found guilty yesterday on all counts against them in an Indictment charging them with orchestrating so-called “pump and dump” stock fraud schemes that employ the Internet and social networking sites, among other tools, to manipulate the price of penny stocks. DAVID LEVY also was found guilty of participating in an international money laundering scheme. The defendants were convicted after a three-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty.

According to the evidence introduced at trial, other proceedings in this case, and documents previously filed in Manhattan federal court:

The Start-Up Company Stock Fraud Scheme

DAVID LEVY and DONNA LEVY were convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, and of committing securities fraud, in connection with their efforts to orchestrate multi-year pump and dump schemes involving two companies that they helped take public: Cardiac Network, Inc., which has traded under symbol “CNWI,” and Banneker, Inc., which has traded under symbol “BANI.” The scheme worked as follows: DAVID LEVY and DONNA LEVY offered to help start-up companies obtain financing, take the start-up companies public, and coordinate marketing and investor relations for the companies, in exchange for company shares.

Once the companies had gone public, DONNA LEVY put out press releases on behalf of the target companies, and she worked with DAVID LEVY to secretly fund and distribute misleading third-party “buy” recommendations concerning the targeted companies.

This misleading promotional campaign, along with other manipulative conduct, caused demand for stock in the targeted companies, and the price of the stock to rise. DAVID LEVY, DONNA LEVY, and their co-conspirators took advantage of the “pumped-up” stock trading volume and prices to “dump” their shares into the market until the misleading promotional campaign had run out of steam. They would repeat the scheme multiple times until the target companies’ shares were essentially valueless, thereby harming company founders and executives, as well as innocent investors who bought in reliance on the misleading promotional campaigns they orchestrated.

DAVID LEVY was also convicted of securities fraud in connection with his efforts to orchestrate a multi-year pump and dump scheme involving a third company that he helped take public: Greenway Design Group, Inc., which has traded under symbol “GDGI.” Evidence presented at trial demonstrated that DAVID LEVY awarded himself secret shares in GDGI in the name of a Panamanian shell company maintained by a money launderer.

The International Money Laundering Scheme

Additionally, DAVID LEVY was convicted of a money laundering conspiracy for his efforts to conceal more than $2.3 million in proceeds from the fraudulent schemes in Panamanian shell company bank accounts maintained at a bank in Panama. In connection with the scheme, DAVID LEVY wire transferred $150,000 in fraud proceeds to a Panamanian shell company bank account through a bank account in New York. He carried over to Panama $2 million in cashiers’ checks, representing proceeds from stock fraud, and deposited it into the shell company bank account.

The Manipulation-For-Hire Scheme

In addition to being convicted of the charges above, DONNA LEVY also was convicted of two counts arising from her participation in a manipulation-for-hire scheme. As demonstrated at trial, DONNA LEVY was paid by others who were interested in dumping large holdings of penny stocks into the market, or through intermediaries, to post or fund misleading stock “buy” recommendations on purportedly independent stock analysis websites and email newsletters. Participants in the scheme would also engage in manipulative trading activity concerning stocks that they were paid to help manipulate. They did so knowing that their conduct would help pump up the prices of the stocks they were manipulating so that they could sell and make quick profits from unsuspecting investors who would be harmed once the secretly-funded manipulative campaign ended and the stock crashed.

DONNA LEVY was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, and of committing securities fraud, in connection with her efforts to orchestrate a pump and dump scheme as a manipulator for hire in connection with a purported company called Emerging World Pharma, Inc., which has traded under symbol “EWPI.”

DAVID LEVY, 60, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, faces a maximum sentence of 85 years in prison, and a fine of over $5,000,000, in addition to forfeiture of the proceeds of the crimes. DONNA LEVY, 57, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, faces a maximum sentence of 70 years in prison, and a fine of over $5,000,000, in addition to forfeiture of the proceeds of the crimes. A sentencing date has not yet been set for either defendant.

Nine additional defendants have already pled guilty to charges arising out of the conduct alleged in the Indictment, and three of the nine have been sentenced. The relevant plea dates and, where applicable, the sentences imposed are set forth in the attached chart.

This case originated and the schemes were uncovered as part of the Government’s long-term investigation into criminal conduct at the Port of New York-New Jersey. Mr. Bharara thanked the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations’ New Jersey office, as well as the other participants in the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force, which includes the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations’ New Jersey Offices, for their assistance with the investigation. Mr. Bharara also thanked the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for supporting the investigation, which is ongoing.

The case is being handled by the Office’s Public Corruption Unit. Assistant United States Attorneys Howard S. Master and Carrie H. Cohen are in charge of the prosecutions, and Andrew D. Goldstein is responsible for the asset forfeiture aspects of the case.

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Meridian’s Berg wants 18-year fraud sentence overturned _ Business & Technology _ The Seattle Times.htm

Meridian’s Berg wants 18-year fraud sentence overturned

Frederick Darren Berg is asking a federal judge to overturn his 18-year sentence for defrauding investors of more than $100 million in a Ponzi scheme at Meridian Mortgage, claiming court-appointed attorneys didn’t put up an adequate defense.

By Seattle Times business staff

Frederick Darren Berg

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Twelve months after he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for defrauding investors, Meridian Mortgage founder Frederick Darren Berg is asking a federal judge to overturn his decision on the grounds that Berg’s court-appointed attorneys didn’t put up an adequate defense.

He also claims the original indictment should be thrown out because it was based on “outrageous government conduct” in the form of coordination between prosecutors and the court-appointed trustee in the bankruptcy of 10 Meridian investor funds.

Hundreds of investors lost at least $100 million in Berg’s Ponzi scheme, while he spent tens of millions on his lavish lifestyle and poured an estimated $45 million into creating a luxury-bus company.

Berg pleaded guilty in August 2011, though he insisted at the sentencing that Meridian only became a Ponzi scheme in 2008, not a half-dozen years earlier as prosecutors alleged.

In a brief preliminary filing received by the court Monday, Berg argued that his attorneys should have tried to block the admissibility of some statements he made before being indicted. He also said his defense team should have done its own investigation into the books at Meridian, rather than relying on the forensic accounting done by bankruptcy trustee Mark Calvert.

Had his defense done these things, Berg asserted, he would have been better positioned to go to trial or to arrange a more lenient plea deal.

Berg, 50, is being held at Lompoc federal prison in California. In the appeal directed to U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones, who sentenced him on Feb. 9, 2012, Berg asked permission to detail his arguments.

Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, said prosecutors don’t believe Berg’s arguments have merit.

 

 

 

Pearlman To Repay Fraud Victims $300 Million _ Billboard.htm

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1044767/pearlman-to-repay-fraud-victims-300-million

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1044767/pearlman-to-repay-fraud-victims-300-million

Lou Pearlman and federal authorities have finally agreed on how much the former boy band promoter swindled from banks and investors in a decades-long scam: a staggering $300 million.

Lou Pearlman and federal authorities have finally agreed on how much the former boy band promoter swindled from banks and investors in a decades-long scam: a staggering $300 million.

That's how much creator of the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync will have to repay, at a minimum, for restitution on the fraud conviction for which he's serving a 25-year prison sentence.

U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharpe today (July 16) asked prosecutors and defense attorneys to amend court documents with the agreed amount.

It will be difficult for Pearlman to repay all the money while he is behind bars. Pearlman made millions in the record industry in the 1990s, but investigators have found that money and more seemingly gone with the collapse of his Ponzi scheme.

He's been allowed to manage — at arm's length — the few remaining music acts he still has. He could also offer money from whatever job he gets in prison.

Attorneys from both sides, the FBI and FDIC determined Pearlman took $195 million from more than 1,000 people in an alleged savings program promising 6 percent to 10 percent returns, and $126.7 million in bogus loans from federally insured banks. Another $70 million was invested by people who thought they were buying shares in companies owned by Pearlman that mostly had no assets.

But Pearlman's restitution could go up. Sharpe delayed judgment on prosecutors' request to tack on $124 million in interest payments to victims, saying he wanted to see Pearlman return some of the principal first.

"If they had not provided their money to Mr. Pearlman, they would have received interest or some return on their investment," Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg argued in court.

Pearlman's attorney, former public defender Fletcher Peacock, said adding interest would only dissuade Pearlman from repaying any of his debt. Peacock also said it was unfair because the money was never invested.

"This is not a case of where Mr. pearlman accrued an amount of interest and objected to giving that back to people," Peacock said. "This interest was fictional."

In May, Sharpe said he would shave a month off Pearlman's sentence for each $1 million he returned. So far, Handberg said, no additional money has been recovered.

A federally appointed trustee has found few assets to compensate victims, some of whom lost their life savings.

The judge has ordered that individual investors be repaid first, then banks. He wanted them punished for poorly judging Pearlman worthy of multimillion dollar loans, many secured with the same collateral.

While reserving judgment on interest, Sharpe said it was unfair to charge Pearlman the high rates he promised investors because it would reward their poor decisions.

"Since the time of the sentencing all you've gotten from the defendant is the smirk on his face," Sharpe told prosecutors. "So let's try to get some money first."

Sharpe remanded Pearlman to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which will transfer him to an undetermined facility. Pearlman had been at the Orange County (Fla.) jail, a few miles from his opulent former offices.

 

 

FBI — Former Bank Vice President Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Fraudulently Transfer Money from Clients’ Accounts.htm

https://www.fbi.gov/baltimore/press-releases/2009/ba113009a.htm

https://www.fbi.gov/baltimore/press-releases/2009/ba113009a.htm

BALTIMORE, MD—Andrew Rosenfeld, age 39, of Ellicott City, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

According to Rosenfeld’s plea agreement, from June 2008 to January 2009, Rosenfeld was part of a scheme to defraud Wells Fargo Bank, where he worked as a Vice President and Client Service Manager. Wells Fargo acted as a trustee for Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) clients and was responsible for using money generated by the CDOs to pay invoices for its CDO clients. Rosenfeld was responsible for supervising a team of Wells Fargo employees who executed wire transfers on behalf of certain CDO clients. To do this, a member of Rosenfeld’s team would receive an invoice to pay, fill out a wire instruction and submit both to Rosenfeld, or another supervisor at his level, for approval. Once approved, the wire transfer would be executed to pay the invoice.

According to the statement of facts, beginning in June 2008, Rosenfeld and another Wells Fargo employee on a different team, created false invoices. Sometimes Rosenfeld submitted a false invoice to an unwitting member of his team causing a fraudulent wire transfer to be processed, which Rosenfeld would approve. The other employee also personally processed fraudulent wire transfers and submitted them to another unwitting supervisor to approve. Rosenfeld and the other employee transferred money into bank accounts controlled by the other employee or the other employee’s friends. Rosenfeld, the other employee and the other employee’s friends would then share the proceeds of the fraud among themselves. For example, on about August 7, 2008, Rosenfeld approved an $18,500 wire transfer to be executed from one of Wells Fargo’s CDO clients’ bank accounts to a bank account controlled by a friend of the other employee and the three shared the proceeds amongst themselves.

Rosenfeld recruited another Wells Fargo employee from his team to execute one of the wire transfers and split his portion of the proceeds of that fraudulent wire transfer with him as well.

Rosenfeld was laid off in January 2009. At that time, 21 fraudulent wire transfers had been executed, resulting in a total loss of approximately $226,000. For about six weeks after he was no longer working for Well Fargo, Rosenfeld continued to receive money from the other employee with whom he concocted the scheme and who still worked at Wells Fargo.

Rosenfeld faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz has not yet scheduled a date for sentencing.

United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Baltimore County Police Department for their investigative work. Mr. Rosenstein commended Assistant United States Attorney Tonya Kelly Kowitz, who is prosecuting the case.

 

 

“The Wolf of Wall Street” — the Book _ The Occidental Observer - White Identity, Interests, and Culture.htm

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/11/the-wolf-of-wall-street-the-book/

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/11/the-wolf-of-wall-street-the-book/  Jordan Belfort’s

 

How many times have you heard about financial crimes and frauds perpetrated by people who happen to be Jewish? How many times have you heard about the association of Jews and Wall Street? For most TOO readers, these themes should be amply familiar.

Now let’s consider yet another instance of the above. Just before the economic meltdown of 2008, an important book about Wall Street appeared and became a bestseller. It was stockbroker Jordan Belfort’s first book about his crimes called The Wolf of Wall Street and was published in 2007 by major publisher Bantam Dell, a division of Random House.

Let’s allow an official overview to set up the tale:

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170 foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called … “Wolf of Wall Street.” In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent — the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down.

Refreshingly, throughout the book Belfort openly and explicitly notes his marked Jewish identity and that of all of his close co-conspirators. It amounts to a fascinating look at the inner workings of a corrupt Jewish financial organization — and Belfort succeeds magnificently in narrating the rollicking affair. No wonder one newspaper called it “A cross between Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorsese’s GoodFellas. The comparison to Wolfe is apt, but rather than Scorsese’s GoodFellas, Belfort’s tale should be compared to Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas because it shares the same non-stop extreme adventure and use of mind-altering drugs.

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This essay will focus on the book, but be aware that in the background can be found fodder for Part II of the story, that of the 2013 film made from the book, starring the decidedly non-Jewish mega-star Leonardo DiCaprio. The contrast between Jewish identity in the book and lack of it in the film is breathtaking —  and deserving of serious attention.

The book begins in the spring of 1987, with Belfort just starting a new job as “pond scum” at the stock trading firm of LF

schild, which was a step up from selling refreshments at the beach or meat and seafood door-to-door on Long Island. Suddenly, the story jumps forward six years and Belfort is now in charge of a brokerage firm named Stratton Oakmont, a very WASPy sounding name, but in fact a firm composed mostly of Belfort’s fellow ethnics.he book highlights the hijinks going on at Stratton Oakmont — a midget tossing contest on the trading floor, for example — and, as a memoir, follows Belfort’s personal life, which revolved around his former model wife Nadine and his drug habit.  Rather than recount that, however, I would like to explore the ethnic undercurrent in the story, for that casts more light on what is happening in America  more generally today than does the story of a thirty-something hedonist.

Belfort grew up in Bayside, Queens, the son of two accountants. At one point he planned to be a dentist and was actually enrolled in dental school, but dropped out when he learned there was not much money to be made in modern dentistry. This middle-class trajectory shows that Belfort should not have nursed class grudges like many of the poor do, but Belfort did — against the very wealthy: but only if they were WASPs.

Belfort’s candor in writing about himself, his fellow Jews, and many of their attitudes toward outsiders is welcome, for it reveals many of the themes we’ve covered at TOO (and The Occidental Quarterly) over the years.  And Belfort is not at all shy about writing disparagingly about some of his co-ethnics, something which the Jewish community often discourages as being a shande far di goyim — a scandal in front of non-Jews.

The picture he paints of his father Max, for example, is one of a frustrated man with a titanic temper: “Even a simple trip to the refrigerator could be a dicey affair,” with his father exploding if any milk dripped down his chin as he drank directly from the container. “That goddamn piece-a-shit motherfucking milk container! Can’t those stupid bastards who design milk containers come up with one that doesn’t make the fucking milk drip down your godforsaken chin?”

Still, Belfort credits his father for coaching his Little League team and attending every last school recital Belfort took part in. Yet Belfort can also allow that his father “was the tightest man to ever walk the face of the planet.” Rarely do we read these days of that stereotype about Jews.

The real fascination surrounding Jewish characters comes with Belfort’s descriptions of his comrades, beginning with his right-hand man, Danny Porush. Danny, Belfort begins, “was a Jew of the ultrasavage variety.” With “steel-blue eyes,” Porush did not appear to be “a member of the Tribe,” a situation Porush himself helped along by dressing and acting like a gentile.  Like many other Jews, “Danny burned with the secret desire to be mistaken for a WASP and did everything possible to cloak himself in complete and utter WASPiness.”

Stratton Oakmont’s head of the finance department, Andy Greene, however, would never pass as a WASP, beginning with the fact that he had “the worst toupee this side of the Iron Curtain.” To Belfort, Greene’s toupee “looked like someone had taken a withered donkey’s tail and slapped it onto his egg-shaped Jewish skull, poured shellac over it, stuck a cereal bowl over the shellac, and then placed a twenty-pound plate of depleted uranium over the cereal bowl and let it sit for a while.”

When discussing another Greene who worked for him — this time Kenny “the Blockhead” Greene — Belfort describe’s Greene’s mother Gladys: “Starting from the very top of her crown, where a beehive of pineapple blond hair rose up a good six inches above her broad Jewish skull, and all the way down to the thick callused balls of her size-twelve feet, Gladys Greene was big.”

She was also quite willing to break the law, beginning with evasion of taxes on the cigarettes she and the adolescent Kenny smuggled into New Jersey. When Kenny turned fifteen and began smoking pot, his mother immediately became a pot dealer, providing her son “with finance, encouragement, a safe haven to ply his trade, and, of course protection, which was her specialty.” And because cocaine “offered too high a profit margin for ardent capitalists like Gladys and the Blockhead to resist,” they were soon enough plying that trade on Long Island, too.

One gets the feeling that for Belfort, the descriptor “savage” has a redeeming quality to it, as he describes many Jews that way, such as “the most savage young Jews anywhere on Long Island,” those from the towns of Jericho and Syosset. Then there is the Wall Street legend, J. Morton Davis, “a savage Jew,” and even Belfort himself, “the most savage Jew of all.” And don’t forget the “Quaalude-addicted, potbellied savage Jew with a thousand-watt social smile and a secret life’s mission to be mistaken for a WASP” who ripped Belfort off when selling him horses.

Make no mistake, Belfort adopts the irreverent tone of a frat brother, stereotyping wide swaths of humanity with a broad brush. Zurich-based German women were “broad-shouldered and barrel-chested enough to play for the NFL,” while the average French woman roaming the streets of Geneva “was slender and gorgeous, in spite of her hairy armpits.” With the Irish, “their proclivity for all things alcoholic was to be expected.”

Then there is the one Asian character in the story, Victor, “the Depraved Chinaman.” Victor “was a Chinaman, and like most of his brethren, if he had a choice between losing face or cutting off his own balls and eating them, he would gladly take out a scissor and start snipping at his scrotal sac.”

Such irreverence slides into the realm of hatred, however, when the subject turns to Germans:

Insofar as my own humble Jewish opinion went, the Geneva-based Frogs were the ones to do business with — as opposed to the Zurich-based Krauts, who passed their time speaking disgusting glottal German while binge-drinking piss-warm beer and eating Wiener schnitzel until their stomachs bulged out like female kangaroos after a birthing cycle.  And, besides, it didn’t take any great leap of logic to realize that there had to be a few Nazi bastards still hiding out among the populace, living off the gold fillings they’d forcibly extracted from my ancestors before they gassed them to death!

The real animus in the book, however, which stands out on page after page, is that against the WASPs around New York City. Belfort loathes them.

Belfort, however, provides a useful sociological opinion when he notes from first-hand experience that “WASPs were yesterday’s news, a seriously endangered species no different than the dodo bird or spotted owl. And while it was true that they still had their little golf clubs and hunting lodges as last bastions against the invading shtetl hordes, they were nothing more than twentieth-century Little Big Horns on the verge of being overrun by savage Jews like myself, who’d made fortunes on Wall Street and were willing to spend whatever it took to live where Gatsby lived.”

This observation nicely mirrors the discussions TOO editor Kevin MacDonald has made regarding the Jewish displacement of the former WASP elite in the United States. In the first issue of Radix, MacDonald in his essay “The Dispossessed Elite” reviews Andrew Fraser’s The WASP Question and agrees that “the Puritan-descended WASP elite that dominated the board rooms and the elite universities have lost their religious faith, and what is left of it is little more than a mild version of cultural Marxism; they have generally succumbed to the destructive forces of the new cultural dispensation.” (See also here.)

MacDonald also agrees with Fraser that America is worse off under its new elite, with the country now “an increasingly corrupt corporate plutocracy in which Ivy League Jews are heavily over-represented. . . .  Worse still, Jewish elites harbor a deep-seated animus toward the Christian faith professed by most Americans.” It’s one thing for the WASP elite to be displaced. It’s quite another when the elite replacing them is hostile to the people and culture they now rule over.

As we’ll see below, Belfort is highly ethnocentric, a fact which jibes with Fraser’s observation that “ethnocentric Jewish elites bear a large, unacknowledged (but glaringly obvious, to those with eyes to see) share of responsibility” for America’s moral decline, financial collapse and economic depression. Sounds like the world of Jordan Belfort and the Jews around him.

Naturally, in The Wolf of Wall Street we run into the classic theme of the Jewish male’s love of the blonde “shiksa.”  As a trophy wife, Belfort weds a British-born former model, Nadine, whom he christens “The Duchess.” “God, she was a real piece of ass, my wife! . . . And those legs of hers!,” not to mention “her great mane of golden blond hair.” Oh, and Nadine’s “loamy loins,” a phrase which Belfort stole directly from Tom Wolfe (to be found in both A Man in Full  and I Am Charlotte Simmons ).

As a super-rich playboy, Belfort had access to that which he liked — and he liked “shiksa goddesses” like the first-class flight attendant on Swiss Air, Franca. “What a hot little Swiss number! So perky! She was gorgeous, especially the way her blond hair fell on that creamy white blouse with its high-necked collar. Such repressed sexuality!” Even after he was jailed, then divorced by Nadine, Belfort continued to get the shiksas he wanted, as an interviewer discovered after Belfort’s release from prison. The interviewer, Geoffrey Gray, noted that both of Belfort’s assistants were the Jordan type: “Belfort’s lair here is like a high temple of the Shiksa Goddess. He laughs off his propensity for long blonde hair, blue eyes, and buoyant bosoms.”

This theme of shiksa lust wedded to resentment of the cultures and peoples whence the very shiksa springs is another common Jewish (male) trait. Novelist Philip Roth takes honors in that respect. Why his exposé, Portnoy’s Complaint, isn’t still required reading for White Nationalists is a mystery to me, for it reveals in literary form so many truths that allow us to understand the anti-Goy kulturkampf we are experiencing. In the novel, Portnoy sneers with respect to disgraced game-show winner Prof. Van Doren:

I was on the staff of the House subcommittee investigating the television scandals. . . . and then of course that extra bonus, Charlatan Van Doren. Such character, such brains and breeding, that candor and schoolboyish charm — the ur-WASP, wouldn’t you say? And turns out he’s a fake. Well, what do you know about that, Gentile America? Supergoy, a gonif! Steals money. Covets money. Wants money, will do anything for it. Goodness gracious me, almost as bad as Jews — you sanctimonious WASPs!

Yes, I was one happy yiddel down there in Washington, a little Stern gang of my own, busily exploding Charlie’s honor and integrity, while simultaneously becoming lover to that aristocratic Yankee beauty whose forebears arrived on these shores in the seventeenth century. Phenomenon known as Hating Your Goy and Eating One Too.

Why isn’t that last phrase as well-known as the odious Susan Sontag’s nasty slur, “The white race is the cancer of human history”? Hating Your Goy and Eating One Too. In the end, dispossessing the male WASP elite meant possessing and degrading their women.

As much of a bon vivant as Belfort comes off as in his book, he is in Roth’s league when it comes to WASP hatred, too, for his memoir seethes with hostile references to the former elite. Some jabs are not so bad, such as his description of Thurston Howell III of Gilligan’s Island fame, where Belfort decides Howell “really was an idiot WASP. In typical WASP fashion he’d married a female of his species, an atrocious pineapple blond named Lovey, who was almost as great an idiot as he but not quite.” Howell, Belfort quips, “was a bumbling moron . . . with an IQ of sixty-five and a penchant for bed-wetting.”

Later, when recuperating in Florida, Belfort and entourage move into a rental mansion in a place called Indian Creek Island, which Belfort discovered was “a sanctuary for a little-known endangered species called the Old Blue-haired WASP” —  about as “lively a species as the sea slug.”

When introduced to the concept of title trustee (which Belfort learned about when he was using a Swiss forger to illegally move his money to bank accounts in that country), Belfort sneers that “In the United States, it was the stuff of wealthy WASPs, who used trustees to watch over the inheritances, or trust funds, that they had set up for their idiot sons and daughters. . . . If all went according to plan, the idiots wouldn’t get their hands on the bulk of their inheritances until they were old enough to accept the fact that they were truly idiots. Then they would still have enough money left over to live out the rest of the WASP lives in typical WASP fashion.”

Belfort might have become rich, but he never lost his Queens, NY chip-on-the-shoulder. For example, driving out to Long Island, he exclaims, “Dinner out!  Westhampton! Or Jew-Hampton, as it was referred to by all those WASP bastards living down the road in Southhampton. It was no secret that the WASPs sneered straight down their long, thin noses at the Westhamptonites, as if we were the sorts of Jews who’d just had our passports stamped at Ellis Island and were still dressed in long black coats and top hats.”

Ironically, some of this WASP hatred revolves around country clubs. I say ‘ironic’ because just recently TOO re-ran my essay “Reel Bad WASPs,” which examines anti-WASP sentiments in the two Caddyshack films (see the excellent YouTube clip here). When Belfort and his wife moved to an exclusive town in Long Island, their mansion was next to the seventh hole of the Brookville Country Club. “And it wasn’t just Brookville Country Club that restricted Jews. No, no, no! All the surrounding clubs restricted Jews or, for that matter, anyone who wasn’t a blue-blooded WASP bastard.”

Interesting that TOO has a category labeled “Jews as a hostile elite” that is groaning chock-full of insightful essays on the hostility of people like Belfort. Belfort’s Wolf of Wall Street perfectly encapsulates one example of that hostility.

Also, how hypocritical that Belfort takes such offense at the alleged clannishness of WASPs when Jewish clannishness is a central feature of Belfort’s story. With the exceptions of the women he beds and servants he keeps, Belfort seems to live in an exclusively Jewish universe, as he readily admits. Most of his Strattonite brokers were Jews, and Belfort counts on these Jews to be loyal — as only Jews can be to him, as Belfort believes. We’ve already seen that right-hand man Danny Porush was Jewish, as were Kenny Greene and Andy Greene (“no relation—I seemed to be surrounded by Greenes”), and Gary Kaminsky, another close affiliate. There’s also his Quaalude dealer Todd Garret, a “wacky” Jewish martial arts aficionado who had fled Lefrack City in the early 1970s. (Garret also had a thing for shiksas, as his wife Carolyn was “a Swiss bombshell.”)

Of course there is Jewish footwear mogul, Steve Madden, with whom Stratton Oakmont made loads of money through illegal dealings. Belfort also details his illegal undertakings with other fellow Jews, such as Alan Lipsky, Belfort’s “oldest and most trusted friend,” and Elliot Loewenstern, another trusted associate. In the book, Belfort writes that each of them personally kicked back $5 million a year for the help Belfort had given them in setting up their own securities firms.

Loyalty — this was critical to Belfort. The just-mentioned kickbacks, for instance, were paid “out of loyalty, and out of respect.” This theme is another one that surfaces constantly in the book. Danny Porush was “above all else, loyal as a dog.”  Andy Greene, who’d earned a law degree at “some Mickey Mouse law school in Southern California,” was valued not for his legal acumen but for his relationship to Belfort; “that and loyalty.”

And it was a lack of perceived loyalty that soured Belfort on “the Depraved Chinaman.” Different tribe, no trust. A very familiar theme to TOO readers.

The issue of loyalty is so pronounced that it enters the realm of cults, really. What Belfort had done was establish himself as a guru, much like other Jews such as Sigmund Freud, or in finance, Michael Milken, who created an operation not on Wall Street but in Beverly Hills. Indeed, negative news stories about Stratton often accused Stratton of being “a self-contained universe out on Long Island.”

Belfort is aware of this aspect of his operation, telling a friend once, “You know, Stratton’s like a cult, Ike; that’s where the real power is. All those kids look to me for every little thing.” To another associate he confessed, Stratton is “a self-contained society” — and Belfort had to resist the urge to say cult.

In the end, Belfort’s universe collapsed and he was sent to jail. More details about that aspect of his life can be found in the sequel Belfort wrote called Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison (Bantam, 2009).

It is the first book that concerns us, however, and next we will see how this story of a crooked Jewish stockbroker, a story brimming with Jewish themes, was translated into a major Hollywood film in 2013.  Stay tuned.

 

 

 

Timothy J. Roth - Florida Investment Advisor Fraud, Misrepresentation and Mismanagement FINRA Arbitration and Litigation Attorney _ South Florida Stock Broker Fraud Lawyer _ Miami Broker-Dealer Misconduct Law Firm.htm

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Timothy J. Roth - Florida Investment Advisor Fraud, Misrepresentation and Mismanagement FINRA Arbitration and Litigation Attorney

By Russell Forkey of Russell L. Forkey, P.A. posted in Fraud and Misrepresentation on Monday, February 11, 2013.

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Timothy J. Roth, et al., Civil Action No. 11-cv-02079 (C.D. Ill.)

Former Investment Adviser Sentenced to 12 Years for Misappropriating Client Assets

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that on January 31, 2013, the Honorable Michael M. Mihm of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois sentenced Timothy J. Roth to 151 months (12 years and 7 months) of incarceration followed by supervised release of 3 years and ordered Roth to pay $16,151,964 in restitution to his victims. Roth, a former investment adviser associated with Comprehensive Capital Management, Inc. ("Comprehensive"), pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with his misappropriation of over $16 million worth of mutual funds from the accounts of eleven clients between 2004 and 2011. Roth, 56, of Stonington, Illinois, transferred the shares without the clients' authorization into an account he controlled, sold them, and used the proceeds to form and support several companies he owned or controlled and to fund his own securities trading.

The criminal charges arose out of the same facts that were the subject of an emergency civil action that the SEC filed against Roth on March 21, 2011. On that same day, the Court issued an order freezing Roth's assets and those of several companies he controlled. On March 31, 2013, the Court appointed a Receiver over Roth's assets and those of the companies he controlled. The SEC's complaint alleged that Roth worked for Comprehensive, a New Jersey-based registered investment adviser. The SEC's complaint alleged that from October 2010 through February 2011, Roth stole more than $6 million worth of mutual fund shares from several deferred compensation plans ("Plans") for whom he provided investment advice. Roth's theft of client assets was later determined to have been over $16 million. The SEC alleged that Roth, who worked out of Comprehensive's office near Urbana, Illinois, secretly caused his victims' mutual fund shares to be transferred to an account under his control, even though no such transfer had been requested or authorized by the clients. The SEC alleges that after selling the clients' shares, Roth funneled the cash proceeds to various accounts and companies under his control or for his benefit. According to the SEC's complaint, at the time he was engaging in his scheme, Roth did not tell the clients about the transfers.

As a result of his conduct, the SEC's complaint charged Roth with violations of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and with aiding and abetting violations of Sections 206(1), 206(2), and 206(4) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and Rule 206(4)-2 thereunder.

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FBI — Atlanta Chiropractor Sentenced to Over Four Years for Health Care Fraud.htm

https://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2011/atlanta-chiropractor-sentenced-to-over-four-years-for-health-care-fraud

https://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2011/atlanta-chiropractor-sentenced-to-over-four-years-for-health-care-fraud  Georgia chiropractor Andrew Sokol made over $6.5 milli

Atlanta Chiropractor Sentenced to Over Four Years for Health Care Fraud
Former Operator of “WellnessOne” Clinics Received More Than $6 Million for Physical Therapy Services Never Provided

U.S. Attorney’s Office June 24, 2011

Northern District of Georgia (404) 581-6000

ATLANTA—ANDREW L. SOKOL, 43, of Marietta, Georgia, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Julie E. Carnes to federal prison on charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud by fraudulently submitting millions of dollars of insurance claims to Blue Cross Blue Shield and other private insurers for physical therapy services that were not actually provided.

United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said, “We are all painfully aware of skyrocketing health costs, and when pain is left untreated, the public should not have to cover a phony bill. This defendant received over $6.5 million in payments from Blue Cross Blue Shield and other private insurers after billing them for physical therapy services he did not provide. Frauds like these ultimately affect everyone—individuals, families, and communities—in higher premiums and higher service costs. The prison sentence imposed today shows that health care fraud is a serious crime.”

Brian D. Lamkin, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Atlanta, said, “The FBI continues to dedicate vast investigative resources to its health care and medicare fraud programs primarily because of the high loss amounts to the U.S. Government that these cases can bring. Individuals such as Mr. Sokol, that were otherwise trusted individuals within the medical community, abandon that trust for a level of personal greed that cannot be understood and will not be tolerated.”

IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Reginael McDaniel said, “Our system of health care is founded on the trust in our health care professionals and the outstanding services they provide. The system was not designed for a few rogue individuals who choose to place personal profit ahead of that trust.”

“This defendant’s criminal activity will eventually be felt by all of the American public. He not only took advantage of the health care system, but the honest people that do right by the system. Today’s sentence will give the defendant plenty of time to think about the consequences of his actions.” said Martin D. Phanco, U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge of the Atlanta Division.

SOKOL was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $6,599,456. SOKOL was convicted of these charges on October 21, 2010, after his plea of guilty.

According to United States Attorney Yates, the charges, and other information presented in court: SOKOL was a licensed chiropractor who owned and operated “WellnessOne” chiropractic clinics in Marietta, Buckhead, Duluth, Vinings, and other locations throughout metro Atlanta.

WellnessOne offered massage, personal training, and chiropractic services to its patients, but fraudulently billed these services to insurance companies as physical therapy. SOKOL targeted MBNA and Bank of America employees because the Blue Cross Blue Shield policies covering those employees provided generous chiropractic and physical therapy insurance benefits. To attract these “patients” to WellnessOne clinics, SOKOL designed frequent promotions, giving bank employees who came in for a massage or chiropractic adjustment gift cards in the amount of $50, $25, or $10, and restaurant and free gasoline cards; raffle tickets offering the chance to win BMW and Hummer leases or $5,000; frozen turkeys and pies at Thanksgiving and Christmas; gift bags containing supplements, vitamins, lumbar and cervical pillows, and weight loss patches; and free catered lunches in the clinics.

SOKOL implemented other mass-marketing techniques to further his scheme, such as a billboard on I-75, a major interstate, that advertised his clinics, and direct mailings to the public indicating that patients could receive massages and have their insurance pay for it. SOKOL also routinely waived patients’ co-payments and deductibles, resulting in the patients being compensated—with gift cards and other items of value—while paying nothing for the massages and chiropractic adjustments they received at WellnessOne.

The evidence showed that from January 2005 through September 2007, SOKOL employed licensed medical doctors and physical therapists in order to bill a massage as physical therapy, even though these licensed providers never saw the majority of patients. Instead, massage therapists actually gave the massages. Several medical providers quit when they realized WellnessOne was billing insurers under their names for services they did not perform. In addition to using false provider names and billing codes, SOKOL directed that services be billed on different days and under different tax identification numbers to conceal the fraud from insurers.

Beginning in 2006, SOKOL permitted patients to visit a local gym in the Atlanta area and then fraudulently billed those gym visits to insurers as physical therapy. When that arrangement ended, SOKOL had small gyms built in the WellnessOne clinics and fraudulently billed personal training sessions to insurers as physical therapy.

This case was investigated by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, and Postal Inspectors with the United States Postal Inspection Service.

Assistant United States Attorneys Glenn D. Baker and Stephen H. McClain prosecuted the case.

For further information, please contact Sally Q. Yates, United States Attorney, or Charysse L. Alexander, Executive Assistant United States Attorney, through Patrick Crosby, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Attorney’s Office, at (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for the HomePage for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia is www.justice.gov/usao/gan.

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Allstate Wins $3.96 Million Judgment in Chiropractic Fraud Case.htm

http://www.chirobase.org/08Legal/allstate/northfield.html

Daniel H. Dahan

Allstate Wins $3.96 Million Judgment
in Chiropractic Fraud Case

Stephen Barrett, M.D.

A New Jersey Superior Court Judge has ruled that Daniel H. Dahan, D.C., Practice Perfect, and Robert H. Borsody, Esq. should pay Allstate Insurance Company nearly $4 million for violating New Jersey's Insurance Fraud Protection Act [1]. The judge also awarded an additional $10,125 against Dahan and Medical Neurological Diagnostics, Inc. (MNDI). Allstate was ably represented by the law firm of Pringle Quinn Anzano.

Dahan is president of Practice Perfect Management & Consulting Services, of Long Beach, California, which specializes in helping chiropractors set up clinics that combine chiropractic, medical, and physical therapy services. Its Web site states that MD/DC and DC/PT "integration" are likely to increase income through expanded services and fewer rejections of chiropractic insurance claims [2]. Borsody, who practices law in New York City, devised the legal strategy and forms used to provide the "integration." MNDI, also located in Long Beach and operated by Dahan, provides a variety of electrodiagnostic services through leasing arrangements.

Background History

The New Jersey Insurance Fraud Prevention Act (N.J.S.A. 27:33A-1), which became effective in 1983, prohibits practitioners with a limited license (such as chiropractors or corporations owned by chiropractors) from employing practitioners with a broader-scope license (such as medical or osteopathic physicians). This provision is intended to ensure that medical doctors maintain the independent ability to manage patient care. The Act also calls for payment of attorneys fees and tripling of damages if the court finds that the defendant "has engaged in a pattern of violating this act." (In this case, the basic amount of $1,320,413,40 was tripled to $3,961,240.20.) [3,4]

Practice Perfect seminars taught chiropractors how to set up medical corporations that appeared to comply with appropriate state regulations as to ownership and control, but due to various devices, undated documents, penalty clauses, and one-sided agreements would actually be under the chiropractor's control. By having the doctor sign an undated resignation and stock-transfer forms, the chiropractor would have complete control over the medical corporation and could replace the doctor at will by inserting another doctor's name on the back of the stock certificate [5,6].

After attending a seminar in 1995, a New Jersey chiropractor named J. Scott Neuner followed this advice, created Northfield Medical Center, and hired Robban Sica, M.D.—whom Dahan had recommended—to purportedly own the facility. Neuner also set up a management company that arranged for all of the facility's profits to go to Neuner. Later, when Sica expressed an interest in actually participating in the practice, Neuner quickly replaced her with another physician. Their lack of bona fide ownership was evident because neither of the doctors ever met Neuner in person or visited any office, met or treated any patient, or supervised any Northfield employee [5,6]. Nor did they have any signature authority over any bank account maintained by Northfield [5,6].

Allstate noted that soon after Northfield began operating, Neuner raised his charges for accident cases from $67.50 per visit to $90 per visit by billing as though services were performed by more than one provider instead of just by him [5]. Additional evidence in the case indicated that (a) Neuner paid Practice Perfect $25,992 to enter the Practice Perfect consulting agreement and to buy the documents he would need to control Northfield, (b) the contract guaranteed that if after one year, Neunan's income did not increase by this amount, the difference would be refunded, and (3) for each patient tested by an MNDI technician, Neuner paid an average of $106.50 but billed Allstate between $1,400 and $2,150 [5,6].

The Practice Perfect Web site states that the company has set up more than 1,250 practices with billings of up to $3 million [7,8]. The New Client Contract calls for payment by the chiropractor of from $30,720 to $42,480, depending on the options chosen.

Allstate's Suit

The case began in 1999 when Allstate sued Dahan, Borody, Neuner, and several others for creating a dummy medical corporation (Northfield Medical Center) to misrepresent a chiropractic facility as a physician-owned medical center. In 2001, in dealing with a preliminary motion, the court ruled that the set-up was "suspicious and indicative of a sham ownership." During the same year, a New York judge ruled that Borsody's insurance carrier had no obligation to defend or indemnify him because his policy excluded coverage for acts "arising out of any dishonest, fraudulent, criminal or malicious act, omission or deliberate misrepresentation committed by or at the direction of, or with the knowledge of any Insured." [9]

Sica, who had more than 40 such arrangements [10] and was named a co-defendant in the original filing of this suit, settled her part in 2004 in an agreement with undisclosed terms. The case was then delayed for many years while arguments about legal standards were considered. The definitive proceedings took place in two parts. The first part was a 3-week trial that was held June 2011. Because Neuner cooperated in testifying against Borsody, Dahan, and Practice Perfect, Allstate did not pursue its claims against him. In January 2012, the judge concluded:

Borsody and Dahan promoted what they knew was essentially a lie. The business model they promoted was intended to appear to be one way and yet, in reality, be another way. They both were motivated to provide to the chiropractor the ability to manage a practice which included medical doctors. Dahan knew that a chiropractor could not own a majority interest of a multi-disciplinary practice since his California corporation was established so that he was a minority shareholder himself. Borsody knew that he was placing in the hands of the chiropractor the control that was lacking in his first experience in New York. The simple fact that the practice was intended to look as though a medical doctor was in control yet, with various side agreements, he was not, constitutes a sufficient basis for the Court to conclude that Borsody knew what he was doing was not proper [6].

The damage awards, determined in separate proceedings, were announced in September and October 2012 [3,4].

The Bottom Line

The key question in looking at "integrated" MD/DC practices is whether they are used to provide unnecessary services. I have no way to determine how many of Dahan's clients have engaged in abusive billing. But documents from this lawsuit makes it clear that they have the tools to do so [5,6].

References

1. PQA wins $3.9 million verdict against chiropractor and lawyer for "Doc-in-a-Box" scheme. News release, Pringle Quinn Avzano, P.C., Sept 15, 2012.
2. Practice Perfect Web home page, accessed Nov
3. Hansbury SC. Order of judgment. Allstate Insurance Company et al. vs. Northfield Medical Center, P.C., et al. Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Morris County, Docket No. MRL-L-3228-99, filed Sept 12, 2012.
4. Hansbury SC. Amended order of judgment. Allstate vs. Northfield et al., filed Oct 15, 2012.
5. Hansbury SC. Order of judgment. Allstate vs. Northfield et al., filed Jan 18, 2012.
6. Villanueva C. Opinion. Allstate vs. Northfield et al, filed April 21, 2001.
7. Multidisciplinary centers: What's in them for me? Practice Perfect Web site, accessed Nov 19, 2012.
8. How to choose a consultant. Practice Perfect Web site, accessed Nov 19, 2012.
9. Sweet RW. Opinion. Chicago Insurance Co. v Robert Borosky. U.S. District Court, Southern District. Case No. 00-CV-4837, Sept 27, 2001.
10. Barrett S. Regulatory actions against Robban Sica, M.D. Quackwatch, July 30, 2012.

 

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Brooklyn Dentist Gets 3 Years in Prison for Homeless Medicaid Scam - Breaking News – Forward.com.htm

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/174280/brooklyn-dentist-gets-3-years-in-prison-for-homele/

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/174280/brooklyn-dentist-gets-3-years-in-prison-for-homele/

dentist Lawrence J. Bruckner

Brooklyn Dentist Gets 3 Years in Prison for Homeless Medicaid Scam

Anne CohenApril 4, 2013

A Brooklyn dentist was sentenced to one to 3 years in prison for using bogus homeless “patients” to defraud Medicaid.

Lawrence J. Bruckner, 63, was convicted of defrauding the Medicaid program by paying people $25-$30 to solicit homeless Medicaid patients and billing taxpayers under his son’s name, for services never provided, a statement put out by the state Attorney General and Comptroller’s offices said.

“Medical professionals like Dr. Bruckner are not above the law. In addition to paying back what he stole from the Medicaid system, a term in state prison is an appropriate punishment for this defendant,” Attorney General Schneiderman said in the statement. “Medicaid provides critically needed health care to millions of New Yorkers. These fraudulent practices deprive the program of much needed resources and hurt law-abiding doctors. I would like to thank the Comptroller for his cooperation in this joint effort on behalf of the taxpayers of New York State.”

“This dentist’s sole purpose was to cheat the Medicaid system,” Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli added. “He took blatant advantage of vulnerable people and kept expanding his scam to steal more. For the past six years, my office has seen repeated examples of how providers defraud the Medicaid system. We will continue to partner with Attorney General Schneiderman to make sure these Medicaid scammers are brought to justice.”

Bruckner’s recruiters apparently supplied himself and three other dentists from his office, Premier Dental, with fake Medicaid patients. The three dentists paid Bruckner to generate Medicaid patients, income which he failed to declare in his tax returns. From 2007-2011, the four dentists received approximately $6. 3 million from the New York State Medicaid program for dental services never performed.

Bruckner had his son sign, Joseph Bruckner D.D.S, sign blank Medicaid claim forms and forged others to hide his crime. Medicaid paid the son $471,703 based on those forged forms, though he never worked in his father’s office. The son gave 90 percent of the sum to Bruckner and kept the remaining 10 percent, the same statement by the state Attorney General’s office reported.

Prior to his sentencing on Thursday, Bruckner had already been required to pay $700,000 in restitution fees.

Investigations into the other dentists working in Bruckner’s office are ongoing, the statement said, and more arrests are possible.

 

 

 

Is Your Big Shot Dentist a Phony.htm

http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8478:is-your-big-shot-dentist-a-phony&catid=112:new-york&Itemid=295

http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php

http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8478:is-your-big-shot-dentist-a-phony&catid=112:new-york&Itemid=295

On Thursday, August 28th, Attorney General Schneiderman announced the arrests of sham dentists charged with treating patients without a license at Brooklyn clinics.

Attorney General police barged into two dental offices on Wednesday, August 27th, to arrest four Russian men for allegedly performing dentistry without a license at two dental clinics in Brooklyn, J.S. Atlantic Dental, P.C., which are separately owned by a father and his son who are licensed dentists.

Konstantin Shtrambrand, Ilya Zolotar, Sergey Tolokolnikov, and Hakob Gahnapetyan were arrested on felony charges. They each face up to four years in prison if convicted. The Attorney General’s Office charged that Shtrambrand, age 43, Zolotar, age 48, and Tolokolnikov, age 54, were working at located at 1707 Avenue P, Brooklyn, posing as licensed dentists and treating patients. Gahnapetyan, age 44, fraudulently portrayed himself out as a dentist and performed dentistry at the office of Grigory Shyknevsky, D.D.S., located at 2523 Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn.

Joseph Shyknevsky, DDS, the son of Grigory Shyknevsky, is the owner of J.S. Atlantic Dental. Search warrants were executed at the locations of both their practices at the time of the arrests. The investigation is currently ongoing. The owners of the dental clinics, the Shyknevky father and son, have not been arrested. It is curious that the owners bear no responsibility, since they should make sure anyone practicing at their establishment has the proper licenses and qualifications.

New York Attorney General Schneiderman issued a press release saying, “New Yorkers deserve to have confidence that the people providing them healthcare are licensed professionals. Plain and simple: there is one set of rules for everyone and my office will not tolerate those who seek to skirt the rules, including in the medical profession."

After an undercover investigation by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) the defendants were arrested. While undercover, the investigators claim that they witnessed all of the defendants inside the dental offices working on patients. The defendants performed dental procedures on multiple patients while donning plastic gloves and medical attire.

Each defendant during the observed sessions allegedly placed their hands in a patient’s mouth. Shtrambrand, Gahnapetyan, Tolokolnikov also gave medical advice, which is illegal for anyone besides a licensed dentist can do. Zolotar was even seen in one of the instances, drilling a patient’s tooth, which is a serious and invasive procedure that can only be performed by a licensed dentist. The alleged actions of the defendants placed patients repeatedly in harm’s way, because unqualified individuals provided them with dental care.

According to the New York State Education Law, one can only practice dentistry in New York and use the title “dentist,” if he or she is licensed. If one does practice or pose as being able to practice dentistry without a New York State license, then that individual is committing a crime.

The defendants were arraigned in New York City Criminal Court, in Brooklyn before Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino, Following their arrest by MFCU investigators. They are each charged with one felony count of Unlawful Practice of a Profession (Dentistry), a class E Felony. Investigations into their employers are continuing by MFCU investigators. The defendants are presumed innocent until, unless proven guilty in a court of law; the charges in the criminal complaint are currently only accusations.

The investigation was conducted by MFCU Special Investigator Alex Kats and Special Auditor Investigator Robyn Irby-Organ with the assistance of Senior Special Investigator Al Maiorano, Deputy Chief Investigator Kenneth Morgan, Senior Special Auditor Investigator Cristina Marin and Regional Chief Auditor Thomasina Smith.

 

 

 

 

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/dentist-speaks-on-allegations-and-protestors/11508086

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/dentist-speaks-on-allegations-and-protestors/11508086 Outside Brooklyn, in Jacksonville, Florida, Howard Schneider was being arrested for identical crimes.

 

 

 

A. Menachem, “Criminality Among Jews: An Overview,” Issues in Criminality, Volume 6, Issue 2, (Summer 1971), pp.1-39.

 

 

 

Crimes of the Middle Classes: White-Collar Offenders in the Federal Courts see page 72
In this major study of convicted white-collar offenders in America, Weisburd, Wheeler, Waring, and Bode show that, contrary to public assumption, the majority of white-collar criminals are not wealthy but come from the middle classes and that judges are not more lenient with these offenders but often punish them more harshly than less socially privileged criminals.

 

 

P. Knepper, The Invention of International Crime: A Global Issue in the Making, 1881-1914, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010

 

a further four Russian-Jewish dentists
On Thursday, August 28th, Attorney General Schneiderman announced the arrests of sham dentists charged with treating patients without a license at Brooklyn clinics.

Attorney General police barged into two dental offices on Wednesday, August 27th, to arrest four Russian men for allegedly performing dentistry without a license at two dental clinics in Brooklyn, J.S. Atlantic Dental, P.C., which are separately owned by a father and his son who are licensed dentists.

Konstantin Shtrambrand, Ilya Zolotar, Sergey Tolokolnikov, and Hakob Gahnapetyan were arrested on felony charges. They each face up to four years in prison if convicted. The Attorney General’s Office charged that Shtrambrand, age 43, Zolotar, age 48, and Tolokolnikov, age 54, were working at located at 1707 Avenue P, Brooklyn, posing as licensed dentists and treating patients. Gahnapetyan, age 44, fraudulently portrayed himself out as a dentist and performed dentistry at the office of Grigory Shyknevsky, D.D.S., located at 2523 Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn.

Joseph Shyknevsky, DDS, the son of Grigory Shyknevsky, is the owner of J.S. Atlantic Dental. Search warrants were executed at the locations of both their practices at the time of the arrests. The investigation is currently ongoing. The owners of the dental clinics, the Shyknevky father and son, have not been arrested. It is curious that the owners bear no responsibility, since they should make sure anyone practicing at their establishment has the proper licenses and qualifications.

New York Attorney General Schneiderman issued a press release saying, “New Yorkers deserve to have confidence that the people providing them healthcare are licensed professionals. Plain and simple: there is one set of rules for everyone and my office will not tolerate those who seek to skirt the rules, including in the medical profession."

After an undercover investigation by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) the defendants were arrested. While undercover, the investigators claim that they witnessed all of the defendants inside the dental offices working on patients. The defendants performed dental procedures on multiple patients while donning plastic gloves and medical attire.

Each defendant during the observed sessions allegedly placed their hands in a patient’s mouth. Shtrambrand, Gahnapetyan, Tolokolnikov also gave medical advice, which is illegal for anyone besides a licensed dentist can do. Zolotar was even seen in one of the instances, drilling a patient’s tooth, which is a serious and invasive procedure that can only be performed by a licensed dentist. The alleged actions of the defendants placed patients repeatedly in harm’s way, because unqualified individuals provided them with dental care.

According to the New York State Education Law, one can only practice dentistry in New York and use the title “dentist,” if he or she is licensed. If one does practice or pose as being able to practice dentistry without a New York State license, then that individual is committing a crime.

The defendants were arraigned in New York City Criminal Court, in Brooklyn before Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino, Following their arrest by MFCU investigators. They are each charged with one felony count of Unlawful Practice of a Profession (Dentistry), a class E Felony. Investigations into their employers are continuing by MFCU investigators. The defendants are presumed innocent until, unless proven guilty in a court of law; the charges in the criminal complaint are currently only accusations.

The investigation was conducted by MFCU Special Investigator Alex Kats and Special Auditor Investigator Robyn Irby-Organ with the assistance of Senior Special Investigator Al Maiorano, Deputy Chief Investigator Kenneth Morgan, Senior Special Auditor Investigator Cristina Marin and Regional Chief Auditor Thomasina Smith.

 

Howard Schneider - broken link

 

Howard Schneider - broken link.htm

 

Samuel 'Mouli' Cohen ex Wiki - Jew stole $58 million
Samuel "Mouli" Cohen (born April 8, 1958) is an Israeli entrepreneur, executive, venture capitalist, and convicted felon, who has held the positions of President, Chairman, and CEO of several public and private video game companies which, according to Cohen, have "generated over $3B in shareholder value".^[6] The companies Cohen has been involved in since the 1980s include: Playnet Technologies, Voltage Capital, LAMIA, Aristo International and Ecast.^[7][8][9] In April 2012, Cohen was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for a conviction on 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering and three counts of tax evasion.^[10]

 

Marc Rich Case

 

 

 

Maurice Hank Greenberg ex Wiki
Ran American International Group. Stayed out of prison when fraud came to light. AIG was fined $1.6 billion. He was running things as the Financial Crisis 2008 was being set up. AIG was bailed to the tune of $180 BILLION.

 

 

Jeffrey Greenstein
Helped tax evasion on $1.6 billion

 

 

 

http://nypost.com/2011/02/24/500m-insure-scam-ring-nailed/

$500M ‘insure-scam’ ring nailed _ New York Post.htm

$500M ‘insure-scam’ ring nailed

$500M ‘insure-scam’ ring nailed
Greedy life-insurance agents took out huge policies on penniless seniors, and then asked them to fake illnesses so they’d seem more likely to die, as part of a $500 million scam, investigators said yesterday.

The fraudsters sought to cheat not only the insurance companies, from whom they reaped huge commissions, but also investors looking to buy the policies on the secondary market, postal inspectors said in mail-fraud charges filed against eight defendants in Brooklyn federal court.

Chaim Mayer Lebovits, of Liberty Planning, in Monsey, NY, facilitated the purchase of policies on behalf of the elderly “straw buyers,” according to the complaint.

He and seven other defendants were released on bail yesterday.

 

 

 

 

Philip Green, An Ugly, Fat, Rich Jew & Parasite Explained [ 11 May 2016 ]
Green has just sold off the mortal remains of BHS after a major Asset Stripping operation. See Fat Jew Bungs Wife £400 Million As BHS Goes Bankrupt. Doctor Joyce explains how Jews carry out their parasitical work. He mentions:-
Marc Dreier - defrauded hedge funds, stealing $400 million
Sholam Weiss - insurance fraud
Sholom Rubashkin - bank fraud, money laundering, use of illegal immigrants and child labor
Scott Rothstein - ran a $1.2 billion pyramid scheme
Bernie Madoff - world record thief, stole $50 billion
Nevin Shapiro
Steve Cohen and Michael Steinberg
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg
Eric Stein
Eliyahu Weinstein........ and others.
You just might see a pattern of behaviour here. As Leona Helmsley, another rich Jew said: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes"