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Monsey, NY Stabbing – Request for Information, Video Footage, Chats
ANYONE WITH ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE STABBING IN MONSEY, NEW YORK ON NOVEMBER 20, 2019 CAN PASS IT ALONG TO OUR GMAIL ACCOUNT AND WE WILL PASS IT ALONG TO THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES.
IF WE ARE ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ASSISTING IN APPREHENDING THE CRIMINAL AND ENTITLED TO A REWARD ANY REWARD MONEY WILL BE DONATED TO THE FAMILY OF THE VICTIM –
We have been asked why we are not broadly covering the subject of the brutal stabbing in Monsey, New York on the morning of Wednesday, November 20, 2019.
Sometimes what we do not post speaks volumes. We are precluded.
For professional reasons the blogger will not be posting any comments or particular posts regarding this incident except what has been posted so far. If you Google “Monsey Stabbing” there is more than enough to keep you busy reading, both about the events and about the internet chatter. Twitter has information available as do a host of Facebook sites.
We are. however, making one comment quite adamantly:
this was not a hate crime.
It appears that video footage was sought out and destroyed by members of the same community where the victim lives and worships; and that this may be hindering a speedy resolution to apprehending the criminal or criminals involved. If you have footage from CCTV or other cameras, please feel free to forward it to the gmail account listed below. We will send it to the authorities. It MUST not be doctored and the exact source for the footage must be provided.
Suffice it to say that we have been in touch with law enforcement and are actively trying to assist in the investigation.
As such, please feel free to contact the blog-site directly with any information and it will be kept confidential.
The gmail is: findinglostmessiah@gmail.com.
We wish the family of the victim well. We wish the victim of the attack a refuah shlema. We will not be posting anything more during this last weekend in November.
Please. If you have information come forward.
Not Victimless Crimes – Money Transmitting Scheme
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, November 21, 2019
U.S. Attorney Announces The Arrest Of 3 Individuals For Operating A $6 Million Unlicensed Money Transmitting Scheme
The Defendants Are Alleged To Have Operated a Money Transmitting Business for the Purpose of Transmitting $6 Million of Illegal Proceeds
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Carl E. Dubois, Sheriff of Orange County, announced the arrest today of CHASKEL LANDAU, ALTER LANDAU, and JOSEPH NEUMAN in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business for the purpose of transmitting proceeds derived from illegal activity. The defendants are scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Paul E. Davison in federal court later today.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “The defendants allegedly engaged in a brazen scheme to unlawfully transmit and conceal millions of dollars of proceeds that they believed to be derived from illegal activity. They allegedly did so for personal profit and with the aim of avoiding law enforcement detection. This Office is committed to rooting out such criminal activity.”
FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. said: “Making money illegally is criminal in and of itself, but operating an unlicensed money remitting business, especially from outside of the United States, will almost certainly result in federal criminal charges. Whenever someone needs to hide and move money, there’s a pretty good chance something’s afoot. The FBI is committed to working with our law enforcement partners to ensure this type of behavior ceases to exist.”
Sheriff Carl E. Dubois said: “We continue to work closely with the FBI and our other federal partners, and the success of this long term investigation is proof of the benefits in these relationships. Illegal financial systems pose a great risk to our residents and their financial institutions. Law enforcement must continue work together to deter criminals from operating and engaging with organizations that allow them to evade banking regulations.”
According to allegations contained in the Complaint[1] unsealed today in Manhattan federal court:
CHASKEL LANDAU, ALTER LANDAU, and JOSEPH NEUMAN were arrested following an FBI sting operation. As alleged, from approximately in or about September 2014 to in or about August 2016, CHASKEL LANDAU, ALTER LANDAU, and JOSEPH NEUMAN engaged in a series of conversations and meetings with a confidential witness (the “CW”). In order to induce the CW to invest approximately $6 million in property owned by CHASKEL LANDAU and his family, the defendants agreed to receive and transmit what they believed to be millions of dollars of funds that the CW had illegally obtained from his business. The defendants agreed to conceal the source of the CW’s money by transmitting the CW’s money to third parties, with the expectation that it would be returned to the CW, in return for a 10% “fee.”
The scheme was two-pronged. First, the defendants agreed to take cash from the CW, exchange the cash for checks written from real estate companies controlled by JOSEPH NEUMAN, and make the checks payable to a third party bank account purportedly controlled by the CW. Second, the defendants agreed to use charitable organizations under their control to transmit the CW’s overseas money into the United States. Over the course of the conspiracy, the defendants transmitted approximately $500,000 of what they believed to be stolen property, and agreed to transmit approximately $6 million total.
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CHASKEL LANDAU, 45, ALTER LANDAU, 64, and JOSEPH NEUMAN, 78, are each charged with one count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and one count of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, each of which carries a maximum term of five years in prison.
The maximum potential sentences are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as the sentencing of the defendants will be determined by a judge.
Mr. Berman praised the work of the FBI, the Orange County Sherriff’s Department, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, and the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division.
This case is being handled by the White Plains Division. Assistant United States Attorneys Mathew Andrews and James McMahon are in charge of the prosecution.
[1] As the introductory phrase signifies, the entirety of the texts of the Complaint and the descriptions of the Complaint set forth herein constitute only allegations and every fact described should be treated as an allegation.
Arrest of 3 in Monsey for Illegal Money Transmitting Business
FBI Makes Three Arrests In Monsey On Thursday Morning
The FBI arrested three people in Monsey early Thursday morning. The U.S. Attorney says the were arrested for carrying out a multimillion-dollar scheme to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business for the purpose of transmitting proceeds derived from illegal activity.
According to allegations contained in the complaint unsealed today in Manhattan federal court, the three were arrested following a sting operation.
From approximately in or about September 2014 to in or about August 2016, the three engaged in a series of conversations and meetings with a confidential witness (the “CW”). In order to induce the CW to invest approximately $6 million in property owned by one of the men and his family, the defendants agreed to receive and transmit what they believed to be millions of dollars of funds that the CW had illegally obtained from his business. The defendants agreed to conceal the source of the CW’s money by transmitting the CW’s money to third parties, with the expectation that it would be returned to the CW, in return for a 10% “fee.”
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Help Police Determine Who Stabbed a Man on His Way to Shul [VIDEO]
Surveillance video and data from license plate readers are a main focus of investigators, CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported. If they can locate the car used in the attack, it’s a big step towards finding the attackers themselves.
A local volunteer group, the Chaverim, is assisting investigators in the meticulous effort to spot and track the vehicle. The volunteers have trained in methods that include video enhancement, and take pride knowing their work may help in the quest for justice.
“For law enforcement to go from house to house, person to person, they would be stretched thin. There may be some cultural language barriers, and no disrespect to cops, many of them wouldn’t know how to work the machines,” said Yossie Gestetner of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council.
The victim’s family is fearful as police continue their search for suspects.
On Wednesday, just before 6 a.m., as the 30-year-old victim and father of four was walking to a worship center on Howard Drive in Monsey, he was jumped by men who got out of a car. He was beaten and stabbed multiple times, including in his face.
The obvious concern: Was he targeted as part of a hate crime?
“My hope is that once the victim recovers, we’re able to have a conversation with him and maybe that will help guide us in that direction,” Ramapo Police Chief Brad Weidel said.
“Some of that video may need enhancement. That takes time. I can tell you we have deep compassion for the victim and his family. He’s still at Westchester Medical, needs additional surgery, but he’s hanging in there, and that’s great news,” Weidel added.
To calm fears in the Hasidic community, Ramapo police have enhanced patrols. The Anti-Defamation League is offering a $10,000 reward for information that helps locate the attackers.
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Rockland’s Ed Day, Ramapo’s Michael Speech, and Rabbi Chaim Schabes – Voices of Reason: The Measles and a Misguided Gathering in Monsey.
To the People Who Organized this Travesty of a Gathering, to the Owners of this Hall Who Allowed It, You Should be Paying the Bills for Anyone who Gets Sick!
To our readers:
If a person carrying the HIV virus knowingly has sexual relations with someone without first informing that person of the risks, it is a crime. HIV is spread through blood transfer and the interaction of certain bodily fluids. It is not airborne and is generally not contagious.
However, a family can choose to not vaccinate themselves or their children for measles and can walk into a crowded Costco or onto a cruise ship, infected with the measles and it is not a crime? The measles is highly contagious, is airborne and does not require a live host to pass from one person to another. Why are the actions of this family not viewed as criminal?
Perhaps the difference is what it takes to spread the disease? HIV requires intimate contact, generally speaking and measles only requires that you go out in public. Is that the difference?
A family that chooses not to vaccinate its children, that then infects others should be held fully and completely accountable for the damage to those who become ill. The measles is life threatening. It has financial implications. It has health implications. It is now costing the United States health insurance industry millions of dollars. It is costing public welfare like Medicare and Medicaid in the tens of millions.
In the year 2000, the Measles was virtually eradicated from the United States.
We have moved centuries backwards and Rabbis, attorneys couching their arguments in fundamental freedoms and wayward knuckleheads named Bigtree are preaching the virtues of anti-vaxing and its already debunked theory of a connection between the vaccine and autism.
What about the fundamental rights of the rest of the population to be able to travel out in public and feel safe. What about new mothers with children who are too young for the vaccine? And what about people who are finding that the vaccines from the late 60’s are not protecting them. And finally, what if the virus mutates, a very real possibility.
The priorities here are upside down and it has nothing to do with illegal immigrants!
Rabbi At Anti-Vaccination Symposium Blames ‘Illegals’ For Spreading Disease
Hundreds of Orthodox Jewish families gathered in a catering hall Monday night in the Rockland County hamlet of Monsey, where they heard anti-vaccine crusaders claim that inoculations are the real health risk, and that measles can help produce growth spurts and prevent everything from cancer to heart disease.
Dr. Larry Palevsky, who runs the Newport Wellness Center in Long Island, a practice that specializes in “holistic pediatric services,” asked onlookers to question whether there was actually a measles outbreak, or if people were actually catching measles from the vaccine itself. Or, perhaps, doctors have been misdiagnosing other illnesses as the measles.
“Is there a bad lot of vaccines?“ Palevsky asked the crowd. “Is it possible that these lots are bad? Is it something other than the unvaccinated children?”
The symposium, hosted by a group calling itself the “United Jewish Community Council,” was advertised through robocalls and fliers sent around WhatsApp groups. Getting wind of the rally, Rockland County officials sent out a desperate message urging people not to attend.
“This type of propaganda endangers the health and safety of children within our community,” County Executive Ed Day, Ramapo Supervisor Michael Speech, and Rabbi Chaim Schabes wrote in a joint statement. “It is unfortunate that these outsiders are targeting our community and attacking our right of self-determination…We urge our residents to continue to ignore these attempts to exploit our differences and ask that they stand together.”
But the message did little to dissuade hundreds of people from showing up, mostly Orthodox Jewish families from all over the region; some bussed into Monsey from as far away as Brooklyn and Lakewood, New Jersey.
Crowds trickled in at first, but by 8:30 p.m. the ballroom was packed with hundreds of spectators, with women and men separated by a cloth partition. (The podium was in front of the men’s side, while women initially had to make do with a video projection. After some protest from non-Orthodox women there, organizers pulled back the curtain a few feet so women could see the stage.)
Just one of the event’s five speakers, who were introduced as “distinguished personalities” and the “cream of humanity’s crop,” was from the Orthodox community. Rabbi Hillel Handler, who has likened vaccination to “child sacrifice” in the past, told the crowd that according to “medical research,” if you catch “measles, mumps and chickenpox, your chances of getting cancer, heart disease, and strokes goes down 60 percent.”
He also said that Hasidim were being scapegoated by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who he called “a very, very sneaky fellow” and a German.
“The Jews are our misfortune,” he said, bringing up how Jews were stigmatized in Nazi Germany. “We Hasidim have been chosen as the target in order to distract from the virulent diseases that are sweeping through the city from illegals.”
The other speakers were figures from the national secular anti-vaccination circuit, who traded in long-debunked and fraudulent claims that vaccines cause autism or other autoimmune disorders, while painting measles as a trivial childhood illness that can give children a growth spurt or protect them from cancers.
D.C. lobbyist Greg Mitchell took the stage after Rabbi Handler. Mitchell has pushed for such causes as the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform bill signed into law late last year by President Trump. Mitchell, according to a report from the Daily Beast, was booted from those efforts when organizers found out he was also lobbying for the Church of Scientology, and that the church was potentially trying to convert formerly incarcerated people through a nonprofit it runs.
“I will be your voice in Washington, I’ll make it will help you carry your message; I will stand next to you,” Mitchell said, admitting not to know much about the vaccine safety issue and deferring to the expertise of other speakers. “I’m your lobbyist, I’m here to help you.”
Palevsky then questioned the reality of a measles outbreak, while warning the crowd about the measles vaccine. “Hundreds of thousands if not millions of mothers…have witnessed children regressing after they get the MMR…the children stop talking, they don’t look at you, they start flapping their arms, they start banging their head,” he said.
According to New York City and Rockland Health Departments, the vast majority of people who’ve gotten sick with measles have been unvaccinated. In Rockland County, 92 percent of people were either completely unvaccinated or had an known vaccination status, according to the county’s health department. In New York City, 92 percent of children who got sick and 72 percent of adults were unvaccinated as of April 24, according to a city Department of Health advisory sent out to health care providers.
The final speakers were two of the biggest names on the anti-vaccination circuit. Andrew Wakefield, the author of the fraudulent 1998 paper published then retracted in the Lancet that claimed there was a link between the Measles Mumps Rubella vaccine and autism by looking at 12 autistic children, spoke to the crowd via videoconference.
“I want to reassure you, I have never been involved in scientific fraud,” he said. “What happened to me is what happens to doctors who threaten the bottom line of the pharmaceutical companies and who threaten government policy in the interest of their patients and that is what happened.”
Gwynne Hogan@GwynneFitzSee Gwynne Hogan’s other TweetsAfter Wakefield’s study was found to contain factual inaccuracies and ethical violations, investigative journalist Brian Deer revealed that Wakefield had also been receiving payments from an attorney trying to sue the vaccine manufacturer.
Finally, Del Bigtree, TV producer-turned-anti-vaccination YouTube host, addressed the crowd.
“This could destroy our species…They wanna talk about the measles,” Bigtree shouted to the exuberant crowd. “I wanna talk about autism, I want to talk about the greatest epidemic of our lifetime and all the other chronic illnesses that are skyrocketing in this country.”
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