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Jews in America have been prominent in the narcotics underworld since the early twentieth century. As Rich Cohen notes:
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  "The first major American drug dealer was probably Arnold Rothstein
   ... [COHEN, R., 1999, p. 131]  ... In the mid-nineteenth century, when
   the government started to ban certain narcotics, drugs were smuggled
   in from Europe and the Far East. But it was a slapdash affair -- not a
   business. Rothstein changed all that. He saw Repeal coming and knew
   drugs could fill the void left by alcohol ... So in the late [19] twenties
   Rothstein retooled a mechanism he had built to carry booze. It would
   now carry, among other things, heroin and cocaine ... [It became] a
   blueprint for smuggling drugs into America."
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Lot’s of people have been prominent in narcotics in America. This fixation of yours on Jews is something I find odious and disturbing.
 
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“By 1926,” notes Israeli scholar Robert Rockaway,
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 "[Rothstein] was allegedly the overlord of the foreign narcotics trade
 in America. Beginning with Rothstein, American Jewish underworld
 figures became prominently involved in smuggling and distributing
 opium and opiates in the United States. During the 1920s and 1930s
 Jews competed with Italians for dominance of the trade. The Italian-
 American's racketeering predominated during World War II. This
 was because of the Nazis. When the Germans began to exterminate
 European Jewry, they also destroyed the Jewish criminals who
 supplied American distributors." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 8]
 
Rothstein’s right-hand man was Louis Lepke, who took over the drug empire when his boss died in 1928. In the 1930s associate Yasha Katzenberg journeyed to Shanghai, China, contacted underworld figures there, and “taught them how to make heroin.” “In the last thirties,” says Cohen, “when officials at last figured out what Katzenberg was up to, the League of Nations declared him an international menace. A few years later Yasha was indicted, along with Lepke and twenty-eight others, for violation of narcotics laws.” [COHEN, R., p. 133-134] In the late 1940s, there were still “dozens of Jewish drug dealers roaming New York City, the remnants of Rothstein’s machine.” [COHEN, p. 139] Particularly noteworthy were Solly Gelb, Solly Gordon, Tudi Schoenfeld, Artie West, Niggy Rutkin, Harry Koch, Sam Haas, Moe Taubman and Harry Hechinger. Tolly
Greenberg even invented a machine to turn liquid heroin into pill form. [COHEN, p. 139-140] Harry Strauss, “Philadelphia’s gambling czar,” later became involved in smuggling “heroin into the United States from France. He reportedly earned $20 million a year from the trade.” [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 33-34]
 
Today’s drug dealing is probably the world’s most profitable crime; profit margins can range from 200% for cocaine to 1,200% for heroin. The Colombian international drug cartel, “Kali,” which monopolizes the trade in Los Angeles and Miami, is estimated to distribute over 80% of the world’s cocaine and a third of its heroin. Illegal drug syndicates are estimated to take in about $25 billion a year in the United States alone. In 1998, 59 tons of cocaine and 770 pounds of heroin were confiscated by American police authorities.
Little known – and little publicized – in America, in recent years the Jewish “Russian mafia,” and Orthodox religious and Israeli business networks with deep links to drug cartels, have been instrumental in maintaining the United States drug problem. Many of these criminals are particularly pious Jews, and a number of Orthodox Jewish religious institutions have been used for the laundering of literally hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money in (particularly) New York City. (Money laundering here refers to the task of getting huge sums of money that were paid for drugs, originally in small bills, into a form of assets that has the appearance of legality.) In 1994 Israeli journalist Ben Kapit exposed this story of Jewish culpability and corruption in America’s growing drug problem; he wrote in Hebrew, to an Israeli audience, in the newspaper Ma’ariv.
 
Daily transactions of huge sums of money – including interstate and international – is part of the diamond business (as is backroom secrecy, based on “personal acquaintance and trust,” [KAPIT, p. 2]; boxes, large packages, and armored trucks come and go regularly under heavy security. All this provides a convenient front for the laundering of massive amounts of drug money, most of it in $10 and $20 bills. “One of the most popularly successful ways to launder money,” notes Kapit, “is through Jewish religious institutions, such as yeshivas and synagogues. Since the majority of the 47th Street gold and diamond merchants are religious Jews, the process is made easier.” [KAPIT, p. 4]
 
“Today,” noted Newsweek in 1977, “the Japanese give diamond engagement rings nearly as often as American, and wealthy Arabs who once eschewed diamonds for the more colorful stones, have become insatiable diamond buyers … Little wonder, then, that tampering robberies and even murders have come to haunt the business, not only along West 47th Street in New York – where the mostly Jewish dealers see an ‘Israeli mafia’ behind the murder last month of one of their numbers – but the world’s other diamond centers as well.” [ATLAS, p. 95] “The robberies that plague the diamond districts of New York and Tel Aviv,” notes David Koskoff, “are almost always perpetrated by people from within the diamond community.” [KOSKOFF, p. 191] In 1990, the Jerusalem Post, paraphrasing the Los Angeles County Sheriff, Sherman Block (also Jewish), noted that “Los Angeles’ small but potent 'Israeli mafia’ has spread across America, graduating in the last two decades from extorting poor Jews – often concentration camp survivors – to major drug-dealing and fraud schemes against the rich … Cocaine is the favored product of the mafia’s drug dealing, and their clients tend to be affluent people who demand the highest quality.” [DERFNER, 9-9-90, ONLINE]
 
U.S. Federal agents have identified, says Kapit, what it calls “the Cocaine Triangle. Its sides are: Colombian drug barons, Israeli-Jewish money launderers, and Jewish-Russian mafiosos … You need only look at the list of arrests and indictments of the past three years in order to grasp the enormous scope of Israeli involvement in the field.” [KAPIT, p. 3] There are numerous murky criminal interfaces between these Israeli drug dealers, the so-called “Russian” mafia, and some of the most pious Jewish Orthodox religious circles. The link between Israeli weapons dealing and South American underworld organizations is also deep. In 1988, for example, an Israeli paramilitary training company called “Spearhead,” directed by a former senior army officer, Yair Klein, was hired to train members of a drug cartel in Colombia.
Klein was eventually fined all of $13,000 by Israeli authorities for “exporting defense know-how not covered in his permit.” [HIRSCHBERG, p. 13] In 1990 the Jewish Week reported that “three United States officials were in Israel … investigating possible Israeli connections to the Colombian drug cartel” and that earlier NBC had reported that “Israeli reserve officers… [were providing] military training to drug-cartel gunmen.” [GOLBERG, A, p. 51]
 
Among the recent items of news that failed to make more than passing mention," noted R. T. Naylor in 1989, “… is the scandal over the chummy relations senior members of Israel’s military maintain with both the Colombian cocaine barons and their Panamanian affiliate, General Manual Noreiga.” [TAYLOR, p. 136] Noreiga’s alleged “right hand man” was a Mossad agent, Mikhail Harari. In 1988 the Jewish Week reported that “[U.S.] Senate investigations have turned up information linking Panama’s recently indicted military strongman, General Manuel Antonio Noreiga, to the Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence agency.” [WAGMAN, p. 5] Jose I. Blandon, a former influential Noreiga adviser and Panamanian counsel in New York, told Congress that Michael Harrari, “described as a former Israeli army general who later worked for Mossad,”
lived in close contact with Noreiga for 5-7 years and trained “Noreiga’s private guard – a unit separate from the Panamanian army. Guard officers report to Noreiga through Harari.” [WAGMAN, p. 5] Brandon also noted that “Harrari often acts as a middleman in weapons purchases that Noreiga makes in Europe,” and that “when Noreiga travels in Europe, Harari arranges for his protection by Israeli military intelligence and Mossad personnel.” “Investigators believe Panama,” reported the Jewish Week, “a kind of Switzerland of the Caribbean, has become a center of Israeli financial dealings and for so-called front companies – corporate shells operating for secret owners, in this case the Israeli government. Investigators believe another of Harari’s functions is to oversee bank accounts and shell companies …
Panama [functions] … as a haven for shadowy financial transactions.” [WAGMAN, p. 5] Secret reports were also in Noreiga’s possession of various United States politicians, from Senators Edward Kennedy to Jesse Helms; “Some [Senate investigators] speculate,” said the Jewish Week, “the files may have come to Noreiga through Harari.” [WAGMAN, p. 5]
 
In 1985, Israeli Shmuel Targan, who used a fake shoe store in New York City as the front for his drug operation, was arrested for cocaine and heroin smuggling. Rudolph Giuliani, then the U.S. District Attorney for Southern New York, noted that Taragan’s store “was one of a 100 Israeli-operated legitimate businesses in the city that disguised illegal operations.” [FISHER, A.] In 1986 five Israelis were arrested in New York for a million-dollar-a-week heroin and cocaine operation. In 1988 five more Israelis were busted in Boston for drug running by the FBI. Also in 1988, in Los Angeles, Israelis Abraham Zarchia and Yitzhak Edvi received ten year prison sentences for drug trafficking – $22 million over a five month period. [HUNTER, LINK, p. 4, 6, 7]
 
In 1985, Max Mermelstein, described by his lawyer as “just a nice Jewish guy who got into the wrong industry,” [MURPHY, pt. 1, p. 3] became a government witness against a number of former accomplices in Colombia’s international Medellin drug cartel. Over seven years, Mermelstein was himself responsible for the smuggling of 55 tons of cocaine, worth $360 million, into the United States. (Curiously, the town of Medellin was actually founded by Spanish Jews in 1616).
 
Elsewhere, a pioneer in the laundering of Colombian drug money (particularly that from marijuana and cocaine) was Isaac Kattan-Kassin, son of a Sephardic Jewish family that had fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s. In the late 1970s, over $100 million a year of the tainted bills passed through his family’s currency exchange business in Cali, Colombia, although Kattan established business offices in New York and Miami, where he spent most of his time. In 1977, he “went to work full time for several cocaine organizations” [POWIS, p. 34] and he eventually became known as “the most famous of the money launderers of this period.” [POWIS, p. 32] Another prominent drug money launderer in this era was Beno Ghitis, who also headed a Colombian currency exchange business founded by his father, Alter. Victor Eisenstein was also a crucial partnerin the drug money ring, and Abel Holtz, president of Capital Bank in Miami, was a participant as the American depository. [POWIS, p. 74]
 
In 1993 an FBI sting operation arrested an Israeli in New York City, Zion Ya’akov Eveheim, who had both Israeli and Colombian citizenship. In less than a year he and his associates laundered $22.5 million in drug money through a fake corporation called Prism. Other Israelis arrested with him were Raymond Shoshanna, Daniella Levi, Binyamin Hazon, Meir Ochayan, and Alex Ajami. “Many other suspects,” says Kapit, “escaped to Israel.” [KAPIT, p. 3] One of the interviewers in Hebrew for the FBI was a Jewish New Jersey resident, Neil Elefant. He was disturbed to discover an Israeli friend in trouble. He went to his rabbi, Elazar Teitz, who recommended “that it was his religious duty to warn [Elefant’s Jewish friend].” Elefant did so, and upon his own exposure for aiding a drug criminal to escape, Elefant claimed he did it because of “the zealousness, almost approaching anti-Semitism, which he found among the FBI agents trying to involve Israel in drug affairs.” [KAPIT, p. 3] Among those Israelis who escaped, thanks to Elefant’s warning, were Adi Tal, David Va’anunu, Yishai Ya’anunu, and Ya’akov Cohen. “Most of them,” says Kapit, “came out of the affair with a lot of money they took to Israel. The Americans know that the chances of any of them being extradited to the United States are close to nil.” [KAPIT, p. 4]
 
In another drug laundering case, in 1990 Aharon Sharir, “undoubtedly the major Israeli launderer,” in America was busted; he subsequently confessed to laundering $200 million. Sharir’s testimony led to 35 other Jewish launderers, including American Stephan Scorkin, “the biggest laundering shark in the history of the United States.” Scorkin was accused of laundering $300 million. Sharir’s partner, Lihu Ichilov, fled back to Israel. [KAPIT, p. 6] “Even with automatic money counting machines,” testified Sharir, “it was difficult to count the money. It arrived in bills of five, ten, and twenty dollars. The bills, most of which had been to sniff cocaine, had a strong odor of coke. A real stink. My employees could not stand it. Every 2-3 hours they had to take a break, go out for some fresh air, so as not to get high.”
 
Another Israeli drug laundering ring, led by Adi Tal, a former El-Al airline security guard, was broken up by American authorities in 1988. Eleven members were arrested. “An important member of Tal’s laundering ring,” notes Kapit, “was Rabbi Shalom Levitin, a Lubavitch Hassid, head of the Chabad branch in Seattle. It is assumed that all the considerable political power of these Hassids were exerted in favor of that laundering ring.” [KAPIT, p. 4] “I was motivated by my desire to help my brethren in need,” explained Rabbi Levitin, “with funds being transferred to Israel.” “People in the community know that he is only concerned about helping Jewish people,” said Mark Goldberg, President of Congregation Shareiev Telfilah-Lubavitch." [Degginger, C., p. 12] Levitin got off easy with a $10,000 fine and a 30-day sentence in a half-way house.
 
In 1984 the oldest yeshiva [Jewish Orthodox religious studies center] in New York City, Tifereth Yerushalayim, was also busted for drug laundering. “The yeshiva’s representative,” says Kapit, “was a very pious Hassid, Mendel Goldenberger, who daily received cash … and deposited the money in the yeshiva’s account … Nine persons were convicted in the affair, including Rabbi Israel Eidelman, Vice President of the yeshiva, and some of its dignitaries.” [KAPIT, p. 4] “Laundering money is extremely beneficial to the yeshivas and other Jewish institutions,” Kapit was told, “… The attitude of the pious Jewish community … is drugs are sold anyway. As long as it does not harm our community and only does good for it, it doesn’t matter if we benefit from drug trade.”
 
In 1990 another rabbi, Yosef Crozer, was arrested by FBI agents; he had in his possession prayer books, five passports, and $280,000 in cash in the trunk of his car." [KAPIT, p. 1] In another 1990 case, a group of Hassids in the Orthodox community of Williamsburg, New York, was investigated for drug laundering operations. The accused included Naftali, Miklosh, Yitzhak, and Ya’akov Shlesinger, and Milton Jacoby. Money was laundered “on checks drawn from the account of Camp Yereim (Camp of the Pious) – a Hassidic summer camp in the Catskills.” [KAPIT, p. 5] The next year, in an unrelated case, a 38 year old Israeli – Uri Mizraci – was murdered in Manhattan; investigators suspected he was smuggling hashish and heroin into the United States. He was also suspected of being a “hired executioner” from an Israeli organized crime group. [JAMES, p. B4] Earlier, in 1986, Daniel Whitman and “cocaine dealer Robert Cohen were arrested for conspiring to murder Raymond Cohen, no relation to Robert, allegedly to keep him from testifying in [a National Football League] ticket scalping investigation.” [MOLDEA, 1989, p. 396] In 2001, Israel drug dealer Alen Amor, living in the U.S. on a tourist visa, was arrested in Los Angeles. Police found 30 pounds of marijuana at his home, as well as cocaine and heroin. [LOS ANGELES TIMES, 10-17-01, p. B5
 
Further indictments against “Russian” immigrant criminals cited by Block include David Podlog and Alexander Moysif, “on charges of distributing heroin and cocaine,” “four Russian émigrés … indicted for the manufacture of crack cocaine vials at factories in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,” and various heroin smuggling charges against Boris Nayfield, Shalva Ukleba, Alexander Mikhailov, Simon Elishakov, and Valery Krutiyl. [BLOCK, A., 1996, p. 193-194]
 
In 1994 still another Hasidic rabbi, an especially prominent one, Abraham Low, of the Mogen Abraham synagogue in Los Angeles, was arrested with a Jewish businessman, Alan Weston, and an African-American woman, Charlesetta Brown, on charges of a drug laundering project worth about $2 million. It involved elements of the usual scenario: Hasidic diamond dealers in New York City and the bank accounts for Orthodox Jewish religious charities. [DE LAMA, 1, 10] “The cash would be delivered to Hasidic diamond dealers known to the rabbi.” [MALNIC, A16] Brown also offered to sell an undercover FBI agent "assault rifles, pistols, bullet proof vests, and knives – “any quantity … on a regular basis.” [MALNIC, A16] When the FBI received the tip about Rabbi Low’s drug laundering activities, he was already under investigation in a $189 million “check kiting” scheme and a “promissory note scheme in which the Bank of America might lose $70 million.” [WEINSTEIN, B9]
 
The rabbi was subsequently convicted of a felony: good for five years in prison. “Low,” noted Israeli journalist Kapit, “is married to the niece of the Satmar [Hasidic sect] Rabbi, Moshe Teitelbaum, who wields enormous political power in New York state.” [KAPIT, p. 5] (Three years earlier, another pious Hasidic Teitelbaum – Hanoch – was sentenced in Rockland County, New York, to 20-months to five years in prison for stealing $1 million in mortgages, loans, and welfare payments). [NYT, 12-6-91] From prison, Low later filed a law suit, demanding special privileges, including housing with other Jews. Rabbi Low “also wanted the prison to buy him a $30,000 Torah, about 200 religious texts, and to build a separate prayer room with a special sink.” [HOUSTON] Incredibly, the government agreed to a settlement in which it paid $270,000 in Low attorney fees, as well as to let him leave prison for ten days on Passover, and to spend further time in a half-way house for the “High Holy Days.” [HOUSTON] No wonder that in 1997 the London Observer ran an article about American prison consultants who offer “advice to nervous white-collar criminals on how to survive a spell in the slammer.” Among the advice for better prison treatment is “pretend to be Jewish.” [HELMORE, p. 17]
 
Another example of this kind of special treatment was the newsworthy 1996 case of Sholam Weiss, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, who was serving a seven-month prison term. He “conned his jailers into giving him permission to spend Passover with his family, then took off for a high-rolling trip to an Atlantic City casino.” [SMITH, G., 5-22-96, p. 24] In 1998 Neil Lederman (sentenced to prison for 11 months for writing a bad $60,000 check) made Washington DC-area news for the results of his request for kosher food from his jailers. To save the hassle of providing it, Lederman was released from jail and allowed “detention” in his home. Earlier, jail officials had even “allowed him to go to work during the day. At night, he returned to the jail.” [JACKMAN, T., 10-8-98, p. B12]
 
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