Newark, NJ – Solomon Dwek, the FBI witness at the center of this summer’s massive corruption sting, pleaded guilty today to the bank fraud charges that led to him becoming an undercover informant.
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The 37-year-old failed real estate developer spent more than two years wearing a wire for federal investigators, leading to charges against 45 people in an epic web of alleged extortion and money laundering.
Dwek entered courtroom smiling at 9:48 a.m. wearing grey suit and light blue tie. He answered questions from U.S. District Judge Jose Linares in a soft voice.
“How do you wish to plead to the two counts set forth in the information, guilty or not guilty?” the judge asked.
“Guilty your honor,” Dwek said.
Linares set sentencing for Feb. 9.
Dwek pleaded guilty in connection to the $50 million bank fraud that first brought him to the attention of federal authorities in 2006, according to a source familiar with the investigation who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the matter.
Later in the day, Dwek is scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Monmouth County to plead to similar state charges.
Well deserved, your honor!
Excuse me, but which room does (Rav Ben Chaim, Rav Kassin, etc ) go to get back their good names?
moiser moridin v’en maalin
Was he wearing a yarmulka? How can he continu living where ever like a jew?
From the picture you would think it was Obama’s motorcade!
Where was he till now???
if he’s not getting his immunity, there isn’t a case against all the others
Why is he being sentenced if he became an informant???? Doesn’t he get something for that? ( and I dont mean jailtime)
he will be scentenced and whisked away by the witness protection program.
9 sometimes you have to do some jail time even if you are going into the WPP. They might keep you in jail under an assumed name or in segregation.
if anyone other than the criminal knows about the criminal’s crime…..its one too many.
lets all try to be careful in money matters
stealing small money is also stealing!
and lets start paying up our bills, espaecially to frumer store owners and supplies!
He can be sentenced to no jail time at all or to a very light sentence, the Govmt. will ask the judge for leniency for his cooperation and judges always give in in order to encourage others to cooperate with the Govmt. he will get his punishment from Shumayim, and same goes with all other Mosrim even in some instances they may wear a Shtrimal. Ym”s!
Hopefully, the sentence will be very short or limited to the time already in jail and this will put the issue behind him so he and his family can get on with his life (although I suspect he will not find a lot of support within his old community). He might wish to relocate to Monsey or another community where this episode has not received so much publicity.
the judge has wiggle room to depart up or down from the sentencing guidelines if he finds it fit. he won’t get that much unfortunately
he may get out of jail but will never get out of gehenom
“He made mistakes, which he compounded by drawing in other jews to his scheme but that cannot be undone.”
Mesira is not a mistake. There should be no sympathy for this moser.
“Dwek, 37, wore a dark blue pinstriped suit, white shirt, blue tie and black yarmulke and had a closely cropped beard and mustache. He wore glasses, which he adjusted numerous times during the court proceeding.”
Although moser is one of the most heinus crimes out there to the point where the rambam paskins that one who is going to be mosair is considered a rodaif and that dwek will surely have a lot of tshuva needed not to have a real hard time in gehinnom, we must remember that what these rabbonim did was wrong and that they are not neccesarily just innocent bystanders they were stealing money on a high scale and frankly everyone gets caught eventually and they should have known that eventually it would turn out to be a huge chillul hashem, now dwek was extremely wrong for exposing it but the rabbis were also wrong for doing it
It’s all peanuts to what the Beis Din Shlamala will punish
Here are some snippets of the court papers, it shows how ugly this human fell..
Dwek (identified as “CW” for “cooperating witness”),
The CW represented that the proceeds of this $50,000 check came from
“that guy who was holding, uh, my, uh, money for me on that
Florida insurance, uh, scam that I did.” In response to that
statement, defendant BEN HAIM asked “[a]nd you need forty-five
thousand?” The CW responded in the affirmative, prompting
defendant BEN HAIM to reply “[o]kay . . . Give me a couple days.”
The CW described the bank check, which was in the amount of $75,000, as
follows: “this is 75 from that bank schnookie deal. And I have
one more 75 from him and that’s the –- we got a half million from
a bank . . .” Defendant BEN HAIM wondered what he should tell
authorities “[i]f they ask me where did you get this check from?”
After the CW again referred to the check as stemming from a
fraudulent loan, defendant BEN HAIM answered his own question by
stating that he would tell authorities that “he mailed me an
anonymous donation . . . .”
Welcome to today’s orthodox world: Where a CW is labeled a ‘moser’ and is considered far worse than any serial child molester. Disgusting!
Who is the “private individual” paying for his protection? Why?