FBI Takes a Bite out of Jewish Organized Crime and Political Corruption
NOVANEWS
By Delinda C. Hanley
A man is brought from a bus in handcuffs to federal court in Newark, NJ, July 23, 2009. Three New Jersey mayors and five rabbis were among 44 arrested in a sweeping federal investigation into corruption that also uncovered human kidney sales and money laundering from Brooklyn to Israel, authorities said. (Reuters/Chip East)
Headlines and photos in the mainstream media shocked readers on July 24, 2009: “Rabbis, Politicians Snared in FBI Sting." Scenes of agents rounding up manacled suspects, including five black-clad rabbis, three New Jersey mayors and two state assemblymen, ran for a day—then the story mostly dropped out of sight, except in local papers or the Jewish press.
Those newspapers, including the New York Daily News, took to task the FBI’s informan...