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In yet another drug case, an Orthodox Jew (a mashgiah: “a religious officer who sees that kosher restaurants maintain their Jewish dietary codes”), David Bright, was arrested at New York’s La Guardia airport in 1996 with a briefcase containing $200,000 in cash. He was arrested and accused of laundering $2 million for drug cartels. Upon release, he “disappeared.” [GROSSMAN, p. 1] At the same time, Bright’s brother, another Orthodox rabbi – Alan Bright – also disappeared. This second Bright, notes the Chicago Tribune, “was a rabbi in Medellin, Colombia – a South American city that is home to the notorious Medellin drug cartel.” [GROSSMAN, p. 18]
 
In 1994, in Montreal, Canada, Rabbi Meyer Krentzman, a former director of the Canadian Zionist Federation, a former director of the Jewish National Fund of Montreal, and a former director of the Jewish Educational Council, was arrested for selling heroin and cocaine to an undercover police officer. An associate, Andor Galandauer, a voluntary official at the Beth Zion Congregation synagogue, was also arrested; Galandauer’s past included activism with the Jewish Defense League. [FISHKOFF, p. 1] “As recently as the fall of 1992, Krentzman was hired to preside over the synagogue’s auxiliary service during the High Holidays, Rosh Hoshannah and Yom Kippur. Galandauer acts in a voluntary capacity as the synagogue’s gabbai – the person who chooses people for honors during services.” [BLOCK, I., p. A3]
 
In 1999, another rabbi, Eli Gottesman, this one in Montreal, was charged with smuggling cocaine and marijuana into a federal prison where he served Jewish inmates. In 1988 he was named “chaplain of the year” by the New York Board of Rabbis. He has dual citizenship and is the author of Who’s Who in Canadian Jewry. Rabbi Gottesman “had been under investigation for several months by prison officials, as well as the Justice Department, the FBI, and state police.” [THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, p. A4] He eventually got off easy, pleading guilty only to a fraud charge and getting less than a year of prison time. [AP, 4-7-99]
 
In 1996 the Canadian ambassador to Israel, David Berger, was presented evidence that a Canadian embassy official in Tel Aviv, Douglas Wardle, was using diplomatic mail to smuggle Colombian cocaine. Two Israelis – Meir Hazor and Ya’acov Sternheim – were also arrested in the case. [CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS]
 
A news item in October 1999 noted the breakup of an international ring specializing in the illegal drug “ecstasy.” Israeli police announced that 49 suspects around the world had been detained; 24 were Israelis, most of the others were ultra-Orthodox Jewish Americans. [KILEY, S.] The Detroit Free Press noted that “ultra-Orthodox Jews served as couriers for a major international drug ring that operated in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Israel, and the United States … The syndicate, led by two Israelis living in Europe, was one of the world’s largest producers of the synthetic drug ecstasy.” [DET FR PRESS, 10-13-99, p. 59] The ring circulated tons of drugs, including cocaine and heroin. [DUDKEVITCH, M., p. 1] A few months earlier, “seven men were indicted in Brooklyn for allegedly operating an international drug ring that relied on Hasidic couriers dressed in black hats, dark suits, and side curls.” [HAYS, T., 7-23-99, p. A8] The key six Israelis arrested in this Ecstasy ring included Igal Malka, Yariv Azulay, Oshri Ganchrski, Eyal Levy, Robert Levy, and Oshri Amar. They were caught with 300,000 tablets on-hand, worth an estimated $7.5 million; 100,000 pills a week were funneled by the gang into the New York metropolitan area. [HENRY, M., 2-25-2000, p. A1]
 
As a Miami newspaper noted:
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 "In its June 1999 Drug Intelligence brief about Ecstasy, the DEA
 [Drug Enforcement Administration] states that Israeli organized
 crime syndicates (some composed of Russian-Jewish immigrants
 to Israel who maintain ties to Russian mobsters) are the 'primary'
 source of Ecstasy for distribution in the United States."
 [KISSELL, T., 9-30-99]
 
In 2001, it was reported that
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  "an Israeli [Oded Tuito] described as a major international smuggler of the drug 
  Ecstasy is in custody in Spain awaiting a court decision on an American request 
  for his extradition ... Spanish newspapers reported that Tuito ran a massive smuggling
  operation in Europe, Israel, and the United States ... Israeli crime syndicates with links 
  to Russian mobs are the primary source of Ecstasy smuggled into the United States,
   according to the DEA." [ASSOCIATED PRESS/HAARETZ, 5-23-01]
 
In July, 2001, yet two more Israeli ecstasy kingpins were busted in America. David Roash and Israel Ashkenazi were arrested “in Manhattan on drug possesion charges after police seized more than a million Ecstasy tablets, the largest drug bust in New York City history.” [Emphasis added] The pills weighed 450 pounds and had a street value of $40 million. [RADLER, M., 7-20-2001] In November 2001, German police “arrested two Israelis [Uzi Gutman and Yosef Raphaelovitz] unloading a truck that contained 1.5 milion Ecstasy pills, capping a long drug investigation by German, Dutch, Australian, and Israeli police into international Ecstasy trafficking by Israelis.” [SOMMER, A., 1-22-01]
 
Elsewhere, San Francisco-based Steven Kalish (alias “Frank Brown”) was a partner in Panama strongman Manuel Noriega’s 1980s drug empire. [DINGES, 1990, p. 11-12] In 1984, he had “grossed $20 million from drug smuggling in the past year.” [DINGES, 1990, p. 14] Kalish, notes John Dinges,
“had started selling grass in the sixties at his high school in Bellaire, Texas, a
Houston suburb. By 1983 he had a Ferrari, a BMW, a Chevy Blazer and more
money than he could handle. That summer he and his partners had arranged
the largest marijuana-smuggling operation of their careers. An oceangoing tug
named the Bulldog pushed a refrigerated barge loaded with 280,000 pounds of
marijuana from Colombia on a circuitous route that ended in Louisiana … Kalish
was in charge of the logistics of the operation, which involved more than one
hundred people. That operation netted $15 million to $20 million; other smaller
deals that summer brought in another $15 million. The money had stacking up
in Kalish’s lakeside house on St. Charlotte Drive in Tampa.” [DINGES, J.,
1990, p. 156]
 
Kadish even became involved in Panama’s politics, economically supporting a presidential candidate he expected would be helpful to Kadish’s drug networking. [DINGES, J., 1990, p. 170]
 
As Guy Dunn, a scholar on organized crime, notes:
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 "Antwerp's port has a reputation for being a major smuggling base. The
 city's diamond dealers, many of them Russian Jews, have links to many
 Russian gangs and are allegedly among the world's most experienced
 in the art of laundering money and dodging taxes. Several Russian
 groups have been uncovered recently, among them a group head by
 Boris N. [Nayfield?], a leading mafia boss, who was charged with
 racketeering, drug trafficking, conspiracy to murder, and association
 with Russian Jewish criminal groups. In 1989-93 N's group was
 centered on companies owned by Antwerp Russians, as well as
 affiliates in Moscow, Berlin, Odessa, and Warsaw.He was heavily
 involved in laundering money illegally obtained through drugs and
 arms smuggling." [DUNN, G., 1996, p. 81]
 
In 1998, the (London) Independent, noting that the year before “police made a series of raids on diamond businesses suspected of tax evasion and money laundering,” announced that
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  "the Orthodox Jewish community [in London] has been shocked by a
   series of arrests of its members for alleged heroin smuggling. Police and
   customs inquiries are centering on a drugs link between Israel, Antwerp,
   and London ... Evidence of the new drugs link follows the professional
   execution on an Antwerp street last week of a Jewish jeweler and
   leading figure in the Russian mafia. A Talmudic scholar was also
   accused in Tel Aviv this month of laundering drug money."
   [LASHMAR, p. 3]
 
Dror Hazenfratz – carrying both an Israeli passport and a Belgian identity card – was arrested with 15 kilograms of heroin worth well over a million dollars. He appeared in British court “wearing traditional dress and carrying the Talmud … The ultimate destination of the drugs was reputedly David Santini, a Glaswegian who, at the time, was Scotland’s leading heroin dealer.” [LASHMAR, p. 3] Santini was arrested earlier. Other Jews arrested included"a young man from Antwerp with 10 kg of heroin allegedly concealed
in his hire-car. He is awaiting trial. Shortly before, an older man had
been arrested at Coquelles at the French entrance to the Channel Tunnel.
British customs allegedly found quantities of heroin and cocaine. The
man was an American Orthodox Jew living in Stamford Hill. British
drug officers suspect they are seeing the beginning of a new drug
operation involving Antwerp Orthodox Jews and the Russian mafia."
[LASHMAR, p. 3]
 
From Australia, we have the noteworthy case of Nachum Goldberg, an Orthodox Jew in the Addas Israel congregation, who was busted and sent to prison in 1997. (A Jewish associate, also charged with tax fraud, died before sentencing). Member of an international ring that included diamond merchants in Israel, Belgium, and Sydney, Australia, Goldberg laundered “dirty money” to Israel: an estimated $90 million over 13 years through a bank account set up for a fake organization called United Charity. “Nachum Goldberg,” noted the Sydney Morning Herald, “was a master money launderer, who was helping some of Sydney’s and Melbourne’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish businessmen evade taxes … Most of the money that he laundered came from the sale of diamonds that had been imported illegally into Australia.” Tens of millions of dollars were sent to his brother, who managed a Bank Leumi branch inJerusalem. “The strict religious faith of the defendants,” noted the Herald, “was one of the main elements of the plea that the sentences should be lenient and it was one of the main reasons why the judge went easy on the Goldberg family.” Goldberg was given a reduced prison sentence, and his wife and two sons, active players in the scam, were given suspended sentences. [BARRY, P., 10-14-2000]
 
Joseph Gutnik, a Chabad rabbi and one of the richest men in Australia, even filed
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 "a libel suit against the magazine Barons and its mother company, Dow Jones.
 The magazine published an article linking Gutnik's name with that of Nahum
 Goldberg, a businessman accused of using an Israeli charity fund to launder
 money. The article claimed that $24 million had been laundered -- Goldberg
 was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. In October 2000 The
 Age reported that the judge in the Goldberg case had criticized the Israeli
 government for not being more cooperative with the Australian investigators who were trying to follow the trail of funds through the local banks."
 [HANDWERKER, H., 5-15-01]
 
The international scope of the “Russian mafia” is reflected in recent headlines about the problem: Russian Mafia Making Austria Its Haven (San Francisco Chronicle, 1996), Swedes Face a Russian Invasion (New York Times, 1993), and Russia’s Notorious Mafia Spreads Tentacles of Crime Around the Globe (Christian Science Monitor, 1995). A large number of these Russian crime groups are Jewish in control. In the United States one of their bases is located in the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn. [ROSNER, p. xi, xii] A 1986 Presidential Commission on Organized Crime report, noted the New York Times, “warned that the Jews from the Soviet Union were among several ethnic-organized crime groups to have emerged recently in this country.” [RAAB] “Some [Russian immigrants to America] find the free enterprise system difficult to understand,” wrote Newsweek in 1985, “Others end up in the ‘Russian mafia.’” [NEWSWEEK, Ag 19, 85] “In the 1990s,” says Rita J. Simon, “there are reports of extensive organized criminal activities within the Soviet Jewish community, especially in the Los Angeles and Brighton Beach areas of Brooklyn … [SIMON, p. 137] … Terms such as ‘Soviet Jewish Mafia’ are widely used in print and electronic media [This is not true. This author’s extensive research has yet to run across any such term that highlights Jewish involvement. The common nomer is ‘Russian Mafia’ which disguises any Jewish dimension] to describe the activities of these recent immigrants to the United States (especially New York and Los Angeles), parts of Western Europe, and Israel, and of criminals in post-communist Russia. They are believed to be involved in drugs, prostitution (especially in Israel), racketeering, and various forms of illegal activities.” [SIMON, p. 145] “Russian” control of prostitution even exists in Romania. [TANNER]
 
Among the various “ethnic” groups that are members of the “Russian” mafia are those from the former Soviet area called Georgia. Jews are well-represented among this group too, and, with a long tradition of criminal underworld behavior, were primed to continue this in other countries. Menachem Amir notes what happened when these Jews from Georgia moved to Israel:
These new immigrants arrived by the thousands in the mid-1970s. In
1980-82 there were repeated reports in the [Israeli] media and in police
statements that among the Georgian Jews were ‘special’ types of
criminals, engaged in ‘big and serious’ crimes, which they had previously
practiced in Georgia … What became a hallmark or specialty of Georgian
criminal organizations, however, was their control, by the use of
violence, of carting and hauling services at air and sea ports. They used
this position for large-scale theft of passengers’ luggage, as well as
theft from cargo planes and anchored ships. In addition, there were
reports of grand scale thefts from warehouses, sophisticated frauds of
religious objects and diamonds, counterfeiting of money and documents
(drivers’ licenses and professional diplomats), and large-scale fencing."[BLOCK, A., 1996, p. 28]

Amir further notes formal Israeli anthropological studies into the Georgian Jewish crime community. These investigations concluded that the Georgians’ “original normative system” of crime “favored their immediate entrance and persistence into organized criminality and organized crime.” The results of fifteen years of Israeli efforts to dissuade Jewish Georgians from crime were a “success” only to the degree that they left Israel and had “continued their criminal activities in their new ‘places’ while maintaining criminal relations with their brethren who remain in Israel (e.g., contraband goods, drugs, laundering money or distributing counterfeit money, produced in Israel [and] in Europe.” [AMIR, M., 1996, p. 29-30]
 
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It may be that the aforementioned Senate testifier merely neglected Jewish/Israeli pre-eminence in the third Russian crime family. As the New York Review of Books noted in November 2000 in a review of the book The Russian Mafiya:
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 "'Of all the nations where the Russian mob has established a presence, none
 has been more deeply compromised than the State of Israel,' [author Robert]
 Friedman writes, adding that the Russian mafia has 'become a grave threat to the stability of Israel.' Although this may be a bit hyperbolic, the Russian
 mafia does have a strong, safe base in Israel -- a story that American and 
 Israeli journalists have largely overlooked. One FBI report observes, for
 example, that most members of [Jewish crime boss Semion] Mogilevich's criminal
 organization have Israeli passports. And Jonathan Winer told Friedman (when
 Winer was still the State Department's crime expert), 'There is not a major
 Russian organized crime figure whom we are tracking who does not also
 carry an Israeli passport.'" [BONNER, R., 11-16-01]
 
Another testifier before the Senate subcommittee, an Italian “Colombia family” Mafioso figure, described his crime contacts with the Russian Mafia, represented to him by Michael Markowitz, David Bogatin, and Lev Persits, men “in a position of leadership [who] had about 200 other Russians working under them in various capacities. They were also continuously assisting other Russians in immigrating to the United States.” [US, COMM, Perm, p. 39] Another, a representative of the Italian Mafia Lucchese family, noted that “I know of Russian criminals in this country who ship guns and cocaine back to Russia. These men have beautiful offices in Rockefeller Center and Beverly Hills and look like legitimate businessmen. They run import-export businesses funded by the mafia over in Moscow.” [US, COMM, Perm, p. 51] Two New York City police detectives, Daniel Mackey and Ralph Cefarrello, testified that “Brighton Beach is also a hub for Russian-born criminals with a well-deserved reputation for extreme violence. Their criminal activities include vicious murders and assaults, extortion of Russian-owned businesses, prostitution, illegal gambling, and a vast collection of frauds and schemes that ravage the economy, causing government, businesses, and consumers millions of dollars.” [US, COMM, Perm, p. 54]
 
In 2000, the Jerusalem Post noted another Russian Jewish criminal kingpin: “recently, there were reports that the FBI had identified commodities trader Semyon (Sam) Kislin, a generous donor to Jewish and Israeli causes and to the campaign of [New York] mayor Rudolf Giuliani, as a member of a Brooklyn-based Russian crime syndicate.” [HENRY, M., 1-13-00, p. 3]
 
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