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Abuse changes brains of suicide victims
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
Tuesday - May 6, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Suicide victims who were abused as children have clear genetic changes in their brains, Canadian researchers reported on Tuesday in a finding they said shows neglect can cause biological effects.
The findings offer potential ways to find people at high risk of suicide, and perhaps to treat them and prevent future suicides.
And, the researchers said, they also offer insights into how neglect and abuse can perpetuate unhealthy behavior through the generations.
Moshe Szyf of McGill University in Montreal and colleagues studied the brains of 18 men who committed suicide and who were also abused or neglected as children, and compared them to 12 men who also died suddenly but from other causes, and who were not abused, although some had various psychiatric problems such as anxiety disorders.
They found changes in the genetic material of all 18 suicide victims. The changes were not in the genes themselves, but in the ribosomal RNA, which is the genetic material that makes proteins that in turn make cells function.
These changes involved a chemical process called methylation, a so-called epigenetic change involving the processes of turning genes on and off, they reported in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, available at http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0002085 .
"The big remaining questions are whether scientists could detect similar changes in blood DNA -- which could lead to diagnostic tests -- and whether we could design interventions to erase these differences in epigenetic markings," Szyf said in a statement.
Dr. Eric Nestler of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas said both drugs and psychotherapy may act to reverse some of these changes......
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The gag order on reporting the story in the Israeli press is a highly unusual procedure for a financial crime. This to me indicates that the case is a very serious one since similar past corruption investigations did not result in such orders.
Olmert currently has three investigations hanging over his head including a claim that he purchased a Jerusalem home at below market price and another claim that he helped a financial supporter in his attempt to buy a newly privatized Israeli bank.
All of this is slightly odd considering that Olmert is a trained lawyer. You would expect such a savvy operator to know how to stay out of trouble. But it appears the lure of the good life may have been too great.
In light of all of this, yesterday’s post about the post-Olmert Israeli political landscape becomes a little more urgent.
There are a few other tidbits online about Talansky. Samson Blinded reports that Talansky is a rabbi. The right-wing blog also laughably labels him a “Jewish traitor.” Apparently, Talansky was among a group of investors who sued an Israeli defense contractor because a spy satellite he invested in was prohibited from providing data to Hugo Chavez. There is also a Morris Talansky who is executive vice chairman of Israel’s Shaarey Tzedek Medical Center, though this is likely a close relative. The Long Island Morris Talansky has also donated funds to Shaarey Tzedek. From his political donations, he largely supports Democratic candidates though he has a special fondness for Rudy Giuliani.
GIven the dearth of reporting on this, I’ve yet to see what motive Talansky might have to bribe Olmert, though the former does have many Israeli investments and seeking favor for one of them might’ve been a suitable motivation. Or Talansky might’ve just liked Olmert and wanted to help his political career financially.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-raid7-2008may07,0,1453422.story?track=mostviewed-storylevel
By Richard B. Schmitt and Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
May 7, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Federal agents Tuesday swarmed the home and office of the Bush administration official responsible for protecting government whistle-blowers, part of an investigation into whether the official retaliated against his employees and obstructed justice.
More than a dozen agents participated in the daylong raid, temporarily shutting down the e-mail and computer systems of the Office of Special Counsel and confiscating several desktop computers, including that of Scott J. Bloch, the agency head. Bloch's home in suburban Virginia also was raided, and agents from the FBI and the Office of Inspector General for the White House Office of Personnel Management were seen carting off boxes of documents in unmarked government sedans.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5729339.html
A landlord whose north Houston apartment complex was closed by city inspectors over unsafe conditions last year has paid a $100,000 fine, officials said Thursday.
The one-time owner of the Carter's Grove Apartments at 3405 North Shepherd, identified as Samuel Pinter of New York, settled more than 240 Municipal Court citations as a deadline approached last week.
Chief Prosecutor Randy Zamora said the fine was the largest against a single defendant in recent memory. The deal came after negotiations with Pinter's attorney.
"When you've got someone who is truly ignoring the laws of the city of Houston, and he is one of the worst of the worst, that's when we do everything we can to make them comply or suffer the penalty," he said.
Pinter and his attorney, Brian Cweren of Houston, could not be reached for comment Thursday. A spokesman for Pinter previously had blamed the city's enforcement on "gentrification" in the neighborhood, where new homes have sprouted up nearby.
Pinter's complex, which recently was sold to a Phoenix company that rehabilitates troubled properties, had so many unresolved electrical, plumbing and nuisance violations that city officials took the unprecedented step last year of closing the property and helping residents move.
Police and city inspectors say they focused on the property for a variety of factors, including an incident in which two kids were shocked and burned by an unsecured transformer.
A police officer also stepped in waste water in the parking lot during an unrelated call. Other citations at the complex included findings of exposed electrical wiring, wiring from one apartment to another and a failure to comply with orders to make repairs.
Substandard conditions
Inspectors also noted an inadequate roof, termite infestation, leaking natural gas and numerous plumbing-code violations, including a lack of hot water in many of the apartments.
City officials notified management about the problems in January 2007, but problems remained, leading to citations and a decision to revoke the property's certificate of occupancy.
Mayor Bill White, who was traveling on city business and unavailable for comment Thursday, last year called Pinter a "slum landlord."
In Pinter's case, city officials said they received no cooperation. He faced charges for missing five court appearances as his citations worked their way through the process, for example.
http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2008/05/hospital-kosher-certified-cafeterias.html?showComment=1210126800000#c1877027564220588129
A to Z Supermarket in Fresh Meadows, Queens now has a new owner who has stopped selling all Rubashkin except for vacuum packed items that he does not slice. The meat is Alle - Beis Yosef glatt only - and the chicken is either Kiryas Yoel or David Elliott. They have a special teuda from the Queens Vaad certifying that they are Beis Yosef only.
http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2008/05/hospital-kosher-certified-cafeterias.html?showComment=1210102140000#c8425475980919086531
Anonymous said...
Yeshivos can be a problem too. One yeshiva I learned in had a cafeteria run by a local caterer under contract. He kept the kitchen like a sty that was always infested with bugs. It was a common occurance that dead bugs were in the food. Sometimes you were zoche to get live ones too.
The food was very poor quality to start with and he would recycle all his leftovers from his other shul kitchens. Mushroom sauce from a chassuna the week before would become soup the next week in yeshiva, possibly with crunchy "additives".
The bochurim were disgusted and eventually started bringing their own fridges. The first year it was a minyan. The 2nd year it doubled to 20 bochurim. When the caterer found out it would be 40 bochurim during the 3rd year who would not be paying for his food, he ran to the executive director, a personal family friend, and had him make a "takona" that you have to pay for his food even if you don't eat it. The parents hit the roof, forcing the yeshiva to back down.
http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2008/05/hospital-kosher-certified-cafeterias.html?showComment=1210126560000#c5334822659109393770
There have been stories, including in yeshivos, where the cook or other kitchen workers are not getting along with the employer. As they start getting more tzebissin, they start purposely tarfening the kitchen to get revenge. When they get caught, it's anyone's guess how long it's been going on for.
Sometimes the cooks are not upset at the boss. They just feel that hilchos kashrus does an injustice to the art of food. In many cases they have taken it upon themselves to add butter to fleish and in at least one infamous case, chometz flour to potato starch cakes at a Pesach fresser hotel.
http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s18&SecId=18&AId=59508&ATypeId=1
In another case, a mother whose daughter was refused a place at the Beis Yaakov High School for Girls in Salford said that one reason given was that her husband wears jeans to synagogue on weekday mornings.
The mother whose daughter was denied a place at Beis Yaakov in 2006 said that she and her husband had sought an explanation from the governors after receiving the rejection letter. Also wishing to preserve her anonymity, she said the family was fully kosher and Shabbat-observant.
“They didn’t think we were the right type for the school,” she said. “At meetings, we were told by various different governors what they thought of us. One said he didn’t like the way I looked. They didn’t approve because my husband wore jeans to shul on weekdays.”
She claimed that in a meeting with the governors, she and her husband had been subjected to “invasive, intrusive” questions and in one instance, she was told “pick yourself up off the floor”.
She said the family had offered to get rid of its television and had asked for a list of any additional religious requirements with which the school wanted them to comply. “I object to the fact that I did not get a list of specifics. It was left to their discretion,” she said.
Neither the Independent Jewish Day School nor Beis Yaakov, Salford, were able to find a spokesman available for comment.
Does anyone have any info on a Rebbe who was fired from YSV in Monsey? Does anyone know of any victims of sex abuse at YSV? Did the school cover for him?
4:16A.M. May 7, 2008
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Get back on topic and spill the beans. With the high at-risk teen population in Monsey you know darn well what happened at YSV. Of course they covered for the spacheem. You know why!
Bill Clinton was born & raised in Hope, Arkansas.
http://www.hopestar.com/articles/2008/04/18/news/news1.txt
Authorities are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of a local rancher, and the man alleged to have shot him to death on Wednesday.
Hempstead County Sheriff's Chief Deputy James Singleton said Thursday that Delton R. Pinter, 54, of the Shover Springs area, died in a Hot Springs hospital Thursday as the result of a single gunshot wound to the head.
Singleton said the sheriff's department was notified by National Park Medical Center in Hot Springs of Pinter's death at 7 a.m. Thursday.
Singleton said Pinter, who worked for local rancher Billy Joe Butler, allegedly shot Butler to death on Wednesday morning at the Butler farm on Arkansas Highway 29 South and, then, allegedly turned the gun on himself.
http://www.hopestar.com/articles/2008/04/17/news/news1.txt
“Mr. Pinter brought up that he was not satisfied with his salary arrangement,” Singleton said.
He said Pinter had worked for Butler's cattle and farming operation for more than a year. He said that the argument between the two men allegedly escalated, and Pinter allegedly retrieved a .22-caliber handgun from his truck and shot Butler, then allegedly turned the gun on himself.
Singleton said at that point, Pinter's wife, Cynthia Pinter, 51, called for help, and Butler's son, Billy Bob, called 911 at approximately 9:05 a.m. Wednesday, and Hempstead County deputies and Hope Police Department officers responded.
“Upon arrival, deputies discovered two males lying near a barn, both suffering from apparent gunshot wounds,” Singleton said.
Billy Joe Butler, the owner of the farm, was pronounced dead at the scene by Hempstead County Deputy Coroner Ben Brazzel, Singleton said.
He said Pinter was transported by air ambulance to National Park Medical Center in Hot Springs, after a decision was made not to transport him to LSU Medical Center.
Singleton said a six-shot, .22-caliber handgun was recovered at the scene.
“We did recover three spent rounds and there were three live rounds in the revolver,” he said.
Which Fresser Hotel had the incident with the chometz flour?
what's the mikor for laidega'er chasidishe guys to be called a "tunabagel"?
Wasn't there a Rabbi Talansky in YTV?
Talansky's nickname is the "laundry man"?
Are you sure he's not ein Chaim Berliner?
Rabbi Horowitz blames the Internet for causing chillul hashem, I blame it on apathy in the Jewish community of Monsey to other people’s plights.
Examples:
1. A young boy is being pummeled by an adult three times his size in front of a Bar Mitzvah with 400 guests. NO ONE SAID BOO!
2. Another young boy is physically assaulted by the same man in a shul in front of 50 people. THE PERPETRATOR WAS ALLOWED TO STAY.
3. When charges were filed, the perp’s father-in-law threatened the victims family. THE COMMUNITY WAS SILENT.
4. A teenager approached a group of adults limping because he was just kicked down a flight of 15 steps. THEY SENT HIM BACK FOR MORE.
5. A married man is grabbed at a public event, slammed into a brick wall and was being threatened with bodily injury. NO ONE CALLED 911.
6. A woman instructed a rebbi at YSV to beat up her son for her, so he’ll stop complaining about her behaviors to his friends’ parents. THE HANHALLAH NEVER CALLED DCFS.
7. A woman spreads rumors that her son renounced his faith, got divorced and simply disappeared without a trace. NO ONE THREW HER OUT OF SOCIETY.
It is for these reasons that a large portion of the frum community in Monsey never bought food from Shevach Quality Meats. We saw Moish and Brenda in action. We saw the brutality, their pugnacious attitude towards their own son, their own flesh and blood. If people are so fearful of standing up to them, they are obviously truly wicked. Despite being in the news for her husband’s scandal, Brenda had nothing more pressing on her mind than to start up with her son. She told FoxTV that her husband was at a family wedding in Chicago. Everyone knew he was home and certainly not visiting Chicago. We were sickened by her gall.
As long as we as a community cower in fear of a few bullies, smile at them to stay in their good graces, and fail to report abuse to the proper authorities we will continue to be featured in prime time.
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=437
DC superlawyer Nathan Lewin. Lewin, often called "defender of the tribe," has represented such high profile clients as President Richard Nixon, Attorney General Ed Meese and actress Jodie Foster. Having argued some 27 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Lewin has taught law at Harvard, University of Chicago, Georgetown, Columbia and George Washington University Law Schools. He is an expert in the financial prosecution of such terrorist groups as Hamas.
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=437
Refael Bigio in Montreal remembers the moment that the regime of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser seized his family’s property. He was driving to the factory with his father that traumatic August day in 1962. Police cordons surrounded the buildings at 14 Aswan Street in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. As Bigio and his father nervously stepped up the stairs, a policeman barked that the government had nationalized the business. "Give me the keys," he demanded. Once inside the offices, policemen and soldiers demanded the keys to the vault as well.
The nightmare of dispossession suffered by approximately one million Jews throughout the Arab world had finally descended upon the Bigio family. Brutal jailings and intimidation against Bigio family members culminated in a forced penniless exodus from the nation. The Bigios, along with a million other Jews across the Arab world, were expelled with just a few dollars in their pockets. The family fled to Canada. But the Bigios never forgot the life they knew in Egypt—or their assets.
Coca-Cola in Atlanta signed a major license agreement with the Bigios to produce the bottle caps.
In the early sixties, using the Nazi Aryanization model that seized Jewish businesses and then either used them for state purposes or sold them to others, the Nasser regime ordered middle-class Egyptian Jews pauperized and expelled from Egypt. The Bigios’s land was seized, and their various cola bottling and manufacturing supply companies were nationalized and merged into a single, larger enterprise called the El Nasr Bottling Company or ENBC. Unbeknownst to the Bigios, the land itself was sold off to the Egyptian national insurance company, Misr.
After the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visited Jerusalem and signed a White House peace treaty, the beginnings of Jewish restitution appeared in Egypt. The Bigios went back to Cairo and sought to recover their property and factories. The government in 1979 invalidated the earlier confiscation. The Egyptian Ministry of Finance issued Decision Number 335, declaring the land rightfully belonged to the Bigios. The government even returned the money Misr Insurance had originally paid for the illegally seized Bigio property.
But Misr refused to comply, unwilling to give up the constantly appreciating land now purportedly valued at many millions based on its central location in fast-growing Heliopolis.
To the Bigios’s astonishment, Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, their former business tenant and customer, purchased Coke bottler ENBC for a reported $142 million. The Atlanta conglomerate acted through a Coke subsidiary and in concert with a partner called MAC Investments, according to documents related to the sale. Amid much fanfare, ENBC was renamed The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt (TCCBCE).
Unmentioned in the glitter and gee-whiz surrounding the acquisition was that the company Coca-Cola purchased from the Egyptian government and renamed TCCBCE included the illegally seized and never returned businesses of the Bigio family.
Bigio took Coca-Cola to court under a variety of legal theories including trespass, unjust enrichment and liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act, which has been successfully used in foreign terrorism cases.
Bigio on February 3, 1994, long before the acquisition, telephoned Coca-Cola in Atlanta to alert the company that it was about to purchase his stolen property.
The record details letter after letter by Bigio warning the company not to proceed until compensation had been arranged. These letters went to senior officials including top attorneys in Coca-Cola’s Legal Department.
Despite abundant warnings and requests for reasonableness, Coca-Cola went ahead and in 1994 acquired ENBC, renaming it The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt.
Bigio’s uphill litigation against Coke has spanned more than a decade. In recent years, his cause was taken up by Mort Klein, executive director of the Zionist Organization of American, a pro-Israeli group. Klein became an active agitator and in the run-up to Coca-Cola’s 2007 annual shareholder meeting, he threatened a visible protest and boycott of Coke. The media—from the Chicago Tribune to the Wall Street Journal was filled with brief articles about Bigio’s "David and Goliath" struggle. The noise was enough to get Coca-Cola’s attention. To assuage Klein and quiet the tumult, Coca-Cola promised to negotiate fairly with Bigio’s attorneys to resolve the matter.
A year later, little has happened to show progress, according to those close to the legal team. Coke to this day continues to pay a pittance for rent on the Bigio property—not to the Bigios but to Misr Insurance Company which refuses to comply with the Egyptian governmental decree to return the property. The rent on the multimillion dollar Heliopolis properties: a mere $350 per month.
An angry Klein said he has given up waiting for fairness from Coca-Cola. "For a year" he said, "Coca-Cola made no more than a miserly offer on the properties despite a valuation of millions. Coke’s conduct is completely absurd."
Attorney Lewin who has been heading the stalemated negotiations agreed, the Coke offer is "world’s apart," from the economic value of the property.
Klein vowed to throw a protest line in front of the annual stockholder’s meeting tomorrow April 15, 2008 at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. He stated, "The only answer now is a boycott of Coke and we are launching one in time for Passover. It is important," Klein continues, "to remind people that Jews of Arab countries had their wealth and possessions stolen." The irony was not lost that Passover observes the ancient injustices heaped upon the Jews in Egypt. Indeed, the House of Representatives on April 1, 2008 adopted House Resolution 185 officially recognizing the refugee status and plight of Jews expelled from Arab countries."
Lewin says the problem is this: "It is now more than 13 years after Coca-Cola callously rejected the Bigios’ personal plea made to the corporate officers in Atlanta and embarked on its major capital investment that took and exploited the Bigios’ property in Egypt. The time has come for Coca-Cola to meet a minimal standard of decency and justice."
One observer of corporate conduct stated, "Coke will probably find it easier to throw some token money at Jewish organizations to buy their silence, rather than deal fairly with the Bigio family."
Despite numerous attempts by this reporter to pose questions or obtain any specific answers on the topic, officials at Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta would not respond, with the spokesman’s office asserting it was short-staffed and busy preparing for the annual meeting.
Coca-Cola in its emailed statement also stood by its legal argument: "This dispute is between the competing claimants, Misr and the Bigios. The Coca-Cola Company is not the proper defendant."
But those who support the Bigios say they will press on both seeking justice and proliferating a Jewish-led boycott of Coke products.
Edwin Black is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of IBM and the Holocaust, as well as award-winning investigations of the relationships between General Motors, Ford Motor Co, Carnegie Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation with Nazi genocide.
http://www.cjp.org/page.html?ArticleID=173065
Apr. 10--BRIDGEPORT -- All Agnes Kole wants is for Danbury federal prison officials to allow its Jewish inmates to be able to purchase such Passover staples as chicken, gefilte fish and smoked salmon, like they could for the past 12 years she's been an inmate.
Instead Kole claims the prison has cut back the Passover purchase list from 12 items to just five. Those five consist of matzohs, grape juice, two kinds of chocolate and macaroons.
So Kole, a New Jersey resident, has made a federal lawsuit out of the cutbacks.
"It's retaliation," Kole told U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall this week. She claimed it stems from her complaining last year when the prison cut the amount Jewish inmates could spend on Passover food purchases from $290 to $100. Her efforts got the higher figure restored.
Kole, a short, pudgy woman, said when she complained about the food cutback this year Sister Anne Marie Raftery, the prison's chaplain, told her "when some people start getting lawyers involved that's what we get."
Bruce Koffsky, a Stamford lawyer, is representing Kole in her suit against prison officials charging they are violating his client's First and 14th Amendment rights. He is asking Hall just to restore the other staple foods to the ordering list.
Hall is expected to continue the hearing on Monday. The eight-day Passover holiday begins April 19.
"I'm not here to micromanage the Bureau of Prisons," Hall told Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Soloway. "But what is the penalogical reason for not offering these items?"
When Soloway suggested that security is an issue because items are being bartered, Hall shook her head.
"You can't tell me there is a security reason when you are offering salmon in December and not during Passover," the judge said.
Prior to that exchange, Koffsky introduced a three-page monthly listing of items that can be purchased from the commissary. Those include wrist watches and athletic shoes. He submitted a lengthy list of food items including a pizza-making kit that all inmates can purchase during the December holiday season. At that time, inmates can spend up to $340.
Nevertheless, Soloway advised the judge it's not like Kole and the other 15 Jewish inmates at the female prison aren't eating any kosher food.
"They get three hot square meals a day that are kosher," Soloway said.
However, Kole said the three meals "are insufficient for you to feel comfortable during the eight days of Passover."
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Apr/20080427News012.asp
Inmate wins kosher food lawsuit
Published Sunday, April 27, 2008
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that Missouri prison officials violated the constitutional rights of an inmate once labeled a white supremacist when they refused to serve him kosher meals.
Norman Lee Toler, serving a 10-year sentence at the state prison in Bowling Green for statutory rape, sued in December 2005, saying he grew up in a Pentecostal home but chose Judaism in 2002. He claimed the state violated his right to practice his religion by forcing him to eat nonkosher food. The term kosher refers to food that meets standards for ritual purity under Jewish law.
In a ruling earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Jean C. Hamilton in St. Louis said the state failed to conduct any studies to determine whether providing Toler with kosher meals would be an unreasonable burden. She gave both sides until early June to negotiate the feasibility of three scenarios: having the department buy prepackaged kosher meals, offer kosher food already available on its menu or give Toler kosher foods from outside vendors.
Brian Hauswirth, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Toler won’t be getting kosher food for now. He said the department is still considering its options.
The department had doubted the sincerity of Toler’s claim that he is Jewish. Guards at an Illinois prison caught him with photos of Adolf Hitler and white supremacist literature. He also has several white supremacist tattoos, including a jailhouse one that reads, "SS," the name of the Nazi police organization.
However, Hamilton found that Toler was sincere in his practice and belief of Judaism, noting that he regularly reads from the Torah, keeps in contact with rabbis and that other inmates know he is Jewish.
Officials worry the ruling could lead other inmates to ask for food to accommodate religion. Currently, 60 to 70 of Missouri’s 30,000 inmates have told officials they are Jewish. Missouri officials argued that serving kosher food could cost two or more times the $2 or so it costs to feed an inmate for a day. Also, they said, special servings might slow meal lines and encourage pushing and shoving like Fressers at a Chassidishe Tish.
i was sent here to destroy your failed leaders, and then give them a nice perm.
FINALLY - ON EVERYBODY'S RADAR SCREEN!
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PARIS (AP) — A suspected pedophile targeted in an international manhunt was detained Thursday by police in the United States, Interpol announced.
The arrest was made two days after Interpol, the international police agency based in Lyon, France, appealed for public help to track down the man.
Interpol says the man was detained in Union City, New Jersey. The police agency identified the suspect as Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, an actor who also goes by the stage name of Casey Wane.
Interpol said the man is suspected of sexually abusing at least three young boys from Southeast Asia. It said that photos seized by police in Norway in 2006 showed the man's alleged abuse. Interpol said the boys were thought to have been as young as 6 to 10 years old.
The agency had appealed for public help because two years of police investigations had failed to determine the man's identity, nationality and whereabouts. Interpol said it feared that the man's alleged abuse of children could continue if he was not caught.
Interpol had said Wednesday that its appeal produced more than 200 leads — potential names, locations and photos of the suspect — in the first 24 hours.
It was only the second time that Interpol had launched such a public manhunt for a suspected pedophile. The first time, last October, also rapidly led to an arrest, by police in Thailand, of a 32-year-old teacher from Canada, Christopher Paul Neil.
In that case, Neil's face had originally been disguised in Internet photos with a digital swirl. Police reversed the swirl process, unmasking his face, and Interpol released those cleaned-up images publicly. Neil went on trial in March, accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old boy.
The suspect in the latest case did not appear to make any effort to hide his identity in the photos that were seized in Norway on the computer hard drive of a man later convicted of child sex offenses, Interpol officials said.
Interpol on Tuesday had released six photos of the suspect publicly as part of its appeal for help. They showed a gray-haired white man wearing glasses or lying on a checkered mattress or blanket in a yellow plaid shirt. Other photos seen by the Associated Press, not among those made public, appeared to show the man engaged in sexual acts with boys.
Because of the lack of basic information about the man, Interpol officials had previously been simply calling the suspect "Mr. IDent" — shortened from the word identity.
Interpol officials said they did not know why the man did not attempt to disguise his face in photos that showed alleged abuse. But officials noted that pedophile offenders sometimes reveal their identities to win trust in child-sex offender circles, in hopes of getting access to other children or images.
A computerized Interpol database of child abuse images played a part in the hunt for the man.
The first photos seized in Norway and others received in the two years since were run through the database of more than 520,000 images. It compared the photos with others, looking for matches. In all, the database and police investigations helped turn up a total of around 800 images, including nearly 100 of the man himself and others of his suspected victims or places where he is thought to have committed his alleged crimes, Interpol said.
Brooklyn, NY - Two former principals at a Brooklyn mortgage lender have been charged with fraud in two separate schemes to steal more than $44 million in payoff proceeds from refinanced mortgages and to sell nonperforming mortgage loans using falsified loan histories.
Lieb Pinter and Barry G. former principals of Olympia Mortgage Corp., have been indicted on charges of conspiracy and fraud charges.
The men are expected to be arraigned before a federal judge in Brooklyn late Thursday. They each face a maximum of 30 years in prison on the fraud charges.
“I disagree. Chabad used to be about disseminating Chassidic teachings which the Baal HaTanya wrote, saying his divrei Torah, etc. In America, Chabad started out with shlichim [sic] going out and bringing the masses back to Judaism. These are goals which we share and do not contest.”
“But present-day Chabad has nothing to do with the above. Present-day Chabad has become a personal cult centered on the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe. Everything they do, from beginning to end, revolves around this. They constantly project his image, talk about him and how great he was, how smart he was, how he was a better strategist than all the generals, that he was Mashiach, etc. This is the way people talk about a cult figure. There’s no room in Yiddishkeit for a personality cult in which an individual is deified and glorified. Whether he was great or wasn’t great is immaterial. There have been many great people in Judaism. The personality cult of glorifying an individual person, giving him unique titles, elevating the shape of the building he was active in, etc., has no place in Yiddishkeit.”-
Yisroel Belsky (Halevi)
On the one hand, Belsky shambles Chabad calling them "a personality cult", and on the other hand he continues to machshir Rubashkin for the OU, which has an overwhelming majority of Chabad shochtim. Now you know why Tzvi Hersh Weinreb quickly apologized to Chabad and condemned Belsky's comments in Mishpacha. That Rubashkin account is too lucrative to lose. UOJ, wouldn't it be ironic if Belsky loses his OU position when he finally speaks the truth about something?
Steve,
Even a messed up, screwed up, old broken clock is right twice a day!
Two Former Principals of Olympia Mortgage Indicted on Conspiracy, Wire Fraud and Bank Fraud Charges
May 8 11:28 AM US/Eastern
NEW YORK, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leib Pinter and Barry Goldstein, two former principals of Olympia Mortgage Corporation, a Brooklyn, N.Y., based mortgage lender, were indicted with conspiracy, wire fraud and bank fraud, Benton J. Campbell, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Mark J. Mershon, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the FBI, New York Field Division, announced today.
The defendants' initial appearances and arraignments are scheduled later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joan M. Azrack at the U.S. Courthouse in Brooklyn. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon.
The indictment charges two fraudulent schemes. In the first, Pinter is charged with fraud in connection with the theft of $44 million of payoff proceeds for refinanced mortgage loans funded by Fannie Mae, a federally chartered mortgage lending company, and serviced by Olympia (the "Fannie Mae Fraud"). In the second, Goldstein is charged with fraud in connection with Olympia's sale of a portfolio of non-performing mortgage loans to Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) using falsified loan histories (the "CSFB Fraud").
According to the indictment, Olympia originated and serviced mortgage loans owned by Fannie Mae, and some of those loans were refinanced through Olympia. When Olympia refinanced a Fannie Mae mortgage loan, Fannie Mae wired the money to an Olympia account. Olympia was then required to pay off the underlying mortgage loan by remitting the outstanding balance to Fannie Mae. Instead, Pinter allegedly misappropriated the proceeds of the refinanced mortgage loan for the benefit of Olympia. When the fraudulent scheme was revealed, Fannie Mae held nearly $44 million in unpaid, but refinanced, underlying mortgage loans from Olympia.
The indictment alleges that Olympia also sold loans to investors, including CSFB, now doing business as Credit Suisse. Prior to purchasing a loan, CSFB required Olympia to produce, among other things, a loan history detailing what payments homeowners made and whether those payments were made on time. Olympia owned several loans for which payments had not been made in a timely manner. In an effort to induce CSFB to purchase these non-performing loans, Goldstein directed Olympia employees to alter delinquent loan histories to reflect that all payments were made in a timely manner. CSFB purchased 12 loans whose histories had been fraudulently altered in this manner.
"Investigating and prosecuting mortgage-related fraud is a priority of the Department of Justice and this office," said U.S. Attorney Campbell. "Those who enrich themselves at the expense of mortgage lenders are on notice that such crimes will not be tolerated."
FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Mershon said, "Commercial banks and government loan guarantors assume some risk in assessing mortgage loans. But deliberate misrepresentation by unscrupulous mortgage brokers, lenders or appraisers can trump even determined due diligence. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney are committing more resources than ever to policing the mortgage lending arena."
If convicted of either the conspiracy to commit wire fraud or wire fraud counts, Pinter faces a maximum prison sentence of 30 years. If convicted of either the conspiracy to commit bank fraud or bank fraud counts, Goldstein faces a maximum prison sentence of 30 years.
The government's case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jonathan E. Green and Daniel A. Spector.
SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice
TEACHER ACCUSED OF MOLESTING FIVE FEMALE STUDENTS
By Tami Abdollah, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 9, 2008
The president of Santa Monica's school board said Thursday that a "breakdown in communication" prevented the board from fully examining a 2006 complaint against a teacher who was charged this week with molesting five of his female students.
Oscar de la Torre, president of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District board, said he and other board members learned about the 2006 complaint only this week after Lincoln Middle School teacher Thomas Arthur Beltran, 60, was arrested. De la Torre said then-Principal Kathy Scott, who reported the allegations to police, is no longer with the district.
Santa Monica teacher held in abuse case was investigated in '06 L.A. school dean suspected of concealing evidence in sex case"There was a transition in leadership, and I think the communication [channels] suffered a breakdown," De la Torre said. "The school board was never alerted to the allegations in 2006."
As a result, De la Torre said he still wasn't clear on whether Beltran was temporarily moved out of the classroom after the complaint was made and on what basis the principal decided to let him continue teaching. No mention of the complaint was found in Beltran's personnel file, De la Torre said.
District officials said prosecutors found insufficient evidence at the time to pursue a criminal case against Beltran after a police investigation. The student was removed from his class and Beltran, who said at the time that his actions were "misinterpreted," was warned not to touch female students.
De la Torre said that at the board's meeting May 15 the district superintendent would present a report on new protocols and policies regarding potential child abuse cases. He said the policies might include interviewing a sample of students, informing parents when such an incident is reported and instituting a districtwide open-door policy when students are alone with teachers.
He said that informing the board about such allegations against a teacher and including that information in the personnel file would ensure that it did not fall through the cracks.
"The important thing here is to protect students first and foremost, and to think of a reasonable plan that will do that without setting up a scenario where it's very easy for someone to retaliate against a teacher they do not like with malicious intent," De la Torre said. "That's the hard part."
On Thursday, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said police were questioning at least five additional people who alleged they were sexually molested by Beltran, perhaps as far back as 1998.
Beltran, who is married and worked at Lincoln for two decades, was arrested Saturday after a 12-year-old student reported the alleged abuse to her parents, who notified police. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 14 felony counts of sexual molestation, including eight counts of a lewd act on a child, three counts of continuous sexual abuse and three counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object on a child under 14. The charges include the alleged 2006 incident reported to school officials. All the alleged incidents occurred in his classroom, police say.
According to court documents, the alleged abuse of the students took place between Dec. 1, 2004, and April 30 of this year. Police said that at least one incident was recorded on a videotape that was discovered during the investigation. Police will be contacting former students of Beltran as far back as possible, but the statute of limitations allows charges to be filed only in incidents since May 1998, said Santa Monica Police Lt. Darrell Lowe.
Beltran, a 30-year employee of the district who taught English as a second language, remains in jail in lieu of $3.3-million bail. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The state penal code requires educators to report child abuse allegations to authorities. The district has a four-sentence reporting policy that requires teachers to report alleged incidents to nurses and school principals, who then "assume responsibility."
In the alleged 2006 incident, Assistant Principal Francis Costanzo informed Scott of the alleged abuse. District officials said Thursday that they were still reviewing the circumstances of the case.
Assistant Supt. Mike Matthews said he reached Scott by phone Wednesday night and had "some initial discussions" regarding the 2006 inquiry. He wouldn't elaborate. "We're going to continue those discussions and try to get a more complete picture as they occur," he said. "It was a helpful initial discussion, but we're not done yet."
Scott is now a principal in the Anaheim Union High School District. She has not returned calls made to her office this week. Scott left her post as Lincoln principal in June 2006. Then-Supt. John Deasy also left the district in 2006; current Supt. Dianne Talarico was hired in July of that year.
Costanzo is still an assistant principal at the school and could not be reached for comment. At a Monday night meeting, he told about 200 parents the importance of talking to their children about "good touch" and "bad touch."
"If something happens, use it as a teachable moment," Costanzo said, choking back tears. "This is a teachable moment."
tami.abdollah@latimes.com
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