TEL AVIV, July 26, 2009, (WAFA)- Three New Jersey mayors and several rabbis were arrested on Thursday in a sweeping federal investigation into political corruption that also uncovered human kidney sales and money laundering from Brooklyn to Israel, the daily Haaretz said.
Among the 44 people arrested were Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, whose at 31 the city's youngest-ever mayor, “was charged with taking $25,000 in bribes, including 10,000 last Thursday”, said the U.S. Attorney's office in Newark, New Jersey.
The case exposed 'a corrupt network of public officials who were all too willing to take cash in exchange for promised official action,' Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph Marra said in a statement. 'It seemed that everyone wanted a piece of the action. The corruption was widespread and pervasive.'
The undercover witness helped infiltrate a money-laundering network by rabbis who operated between Brooklyn, Deal,New Jersey , and Israel and laundered millions of dollars through charitable nonprofit entities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey
The undercover witness helped infiltrate a money-laundering network by rabbis who operated between Brooklyn, Deal,
Rabbis accused of money-laundering were Eliahu Ben Haim, the principal rabbi of a synagogue in Deal; Saul Kassin, chief rabbi of a synagogue in Brooklyn; Edmund Nahum, the principal rabbi of another synagogue in Deal; and Mordchai Fish, a rabbi at a synagogue in Brooklyn. were arrested early on Thursday by federal agents.
One of the many criminal complaints filed in the case also accused a
