Crooks Again

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Spanish police arrest former Mossad agent in AIM fraud affair.

Abraham Hochman is reported to be among six arrested in connection with the $600 million fraud.

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/ ... 91&fid=942

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... fraud.html


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'Mini-Madoffs' Nabbed in Alleged Ponzi Schemes.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washin ... stigations

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059764.html

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Did Israeli officials help U.S. firms win security tenders?

A secret seven-year investigation at the Defense Ministry has raised concerns that senior ministry officials used inside information to help certain American companies win more than $100 million in security-equipment tenders advertised in the United States. …

Police and Defense Ministry investigators focused on suspicions that employees at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv and at the defense procurement office in New York leaked sensitive information from the closed bids made by companies participating in the tenders to companies they favored, helping them win the contracts.

The corruption allegations regarded secret tenders for the procurement of security software and advanced computer technologies, including software, databases, storage and backup systems, from U.S. firms. The tenders were for American firms only because the payment for the equipment, the software and technology was to be made from U.S. military assistance funds, requiring that the money be spent in the United States

"Our concern from the start was that the investigation would open a Pandora's box," a senior Defense Ministry source told Haaretz. "That if we deepen the investigation, the Americans may start getting curious and the relations between the two countries might suffer."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1060788.html


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Lawyers bilk Holocaust survivors for thousands of Shekels in state compensation.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1060360.html


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Madoff – Whistleblower -- Video.

Markopolos: SEC ignored my repeated warnings, from 2000 to 2008. He says the SEC is "captive to the industry" and was "afraid of Mr. Madoff."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/0 ... 63846.html

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Another Ponzi Swindler – fled to Israel.

Arnold (Arnie) Zaler, who fled to Jerusalem last March to escape 30 counts of fraud in Colorado, has flown back to the US and turned himself in after having allegedly scammed numerous Israelis during his 11 months here.

Zaler, 59, dubbed "the Bernie Madoff of Denver" because he had been charged with a Ponzi scheme and preying on Jewish clients, was arrested at an Atlanta airport on Friday on arrival from Tel Aviv.

A former hot dog king, he had lived for almost a year as a fugitive in Jerusalem before returning home voluntarily, apparently after Jerusalemites he had allegedly swindled informed the FBI of his whereabouts, authorities said. …

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull

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Angolagate --- Arcadi Gaydamak.

… Business tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak …. has also been embroiled in an investigation against him for alleged fraud and money-laundering through Bank Hapoalim. …

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067206.html

…. Gaydamak left France after many years, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him in connection with Angolagate, an arms-dealing scandal. He is wanted on two charges; illegal arms dealing with Angola, and tax evasion. France has unsuccessfully attempted to obtain his extradition from Israel, but this has been declined by the Israeli judiciary on the grounds that the factual allegations could not be considered as an offense under the laws of the extraditing country (in this case, Israel) at the time that they were allegedly committed, this being an international prerequisite of extradition, and that other alleged offenses, such as fiscal ones, are not extraditable by nature. …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadi_Gaydamak

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Business tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak:

… The billionaire reportedly is hoping that having Russian citizenship will make it difficult to extradite him to France, depending on a March 4 verdict in a French court over an arms-dealing affair.
Gaydamak is accused of illegally organizing the sale of Russian arms to Angola from 1993 to 2000 for $791 million. …

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/26/ ... nship-back

Israeli Corruption is ‘”none of Diaspora’s business”.

Corruption scandals are "none of Diaspora Jewry's business," Israel's prime minister ranted during discussion of a report assessing Israel's and the Jewish peoples' situation.

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/25/ ... s-business

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A string of corruption suspicions involving Israel’s Prime Minister Olmert.

… Of the various allegations against Olmert, the most detailed have come Talansky, a New York businessman who testified in an Israeli court that he handed envelopes stuffed with tens of thousands of dollars to Olmert before he became prime minister, in part to help finance a luxurious lifestyle of expensive hotels and fat cigars.

Olmert is also suspected of having double-billed trips abroad, pocketing the difference or financing trips for relatives. Other allegations include a shady real estate deal and questionable political appointments, all before he became premier following Ariel Sharon's debiliating stroke in January 2006. …

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067786.html

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California is suing a prominent Jewish philanthropist for being one of the primary conduits to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

... For decades, Stanley Chais posed as an investment wizard, but in truth he was nothing more than a Madoff middleman, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in investor funds to his friend's Ponzi scheme," ...


http://jta.org/news/article/2009/09/22/ ... off-scheme

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Olmert's Trial to Begin Friday

... Olmert will be tried for allegedly double-billing for trips, and using the money he took to fund private travel. He will also be tried for allegedly receiving illegal cash donations, and for allegedly acting to promote a friend's interests during his term as Minister of Industry and Trade. ...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/ ... spx/171498