The Jewish Laundry of Drug Money
Maariv, September 2, 1994,
By: Ben Kaspit, the New York correspondent
"Rabbi Yosef Crozer fell because of his big mouth. "I launder money, a lot of money", he
once told an acquaintance. "Every day I take $300,000 from 47 Street in Manhattan, bring it to the
synagogue, give a receipt and then take a commission".
The man who heard that story from Crozer was, how sad, an undercover Jewish agent of the U.S. agency for
fighting drug use, DEA. A month later, Crozer was arrested by agents on his way from 47 Street
to Brooklyn. They found on him prayer books, five passports, and also $280.000 dollars in cash in the
trunk of his car. He traveled that route every day. He would arrive at the gold trading oflice on 47 Street in
the afternoon, and leave shortly later, carrying suitcases and bags loaded with cash. From there he drove to
the "Hessed Ve'Tzadaka" ["Mercy and Charity"] synagogue in Brooklyn, which was turned into
an instrument for laundering millions of dollars, the revenue from drug sales in the New York area."
FL,
Head to the diamond district, maybe you can score some smuggled diamonds or gold as well. |
