New Jersey: Nice Kidney you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

nexuscrawler

Always gotta one up us eh Hoboken?

Morgenstern

Psst, anyone know where I can get a kidney real cheap?

ElJeffe

So is there a reason they were specifically harvesting Jewish kidneys?

Like, are they kosher, or something?

Couscous

ElJeffe wrote: »

So is there a reason they were specifically harvesting Jewish kidneys?

Like, are they kosher, or something?

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the investigation initially focused, with the help of the cooperating witness, on a money-laundering network operating between Brooklyn, Deal and Israel. The network is alleged to have laundered tens of millions of dollars through charities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey.

The organ trafficking allegedly involved patients paying middlemen to find willing donors in Israel. Investigators allege that the suspects had donors and patients lie to hospitals by saying that they were related. Hospitals would do the operation unaware that cash payments were part of the deal.

So the organs weren't necessarily Jewish. Some of the Rabbis were just helping set up the deal.

TheScruple

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Always gotta one up us eh Hoboken?

You gotta problem wit dat?

nexuscrawler

TheScruple wrote: »

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Always gotta one up us eh Hoboken?

You gotta problem wit dat?

Damn hipsters!

*fist shake*

ElJeffe

Couscous wrote: »

ElJeffe wrote: »

So is there a reason they were specifically harvesting Jewish kidneys?

Like, are they kosher, or something?

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the investigation initially focused, with the help of the cooperating witness, on a money-laundering network operating between Brooklyn, Deal and Israel. The network is alleged to have laundered tens of millions of dollars through charities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey.

The organ trafficking allegedly involved patients paying middlemen to find willing donors in Israel. Investigators allege that the suspects had donors and patients lie to hospitals by saying that they were related. Hospitals would do the operation unaware that cash payments were part of the deal.

So the organs weren't necessarily Jewish. Some of the Rabbis were just helping set up the deal.

But why specifically donors from Israel? Just because they would be more likely to help out their fellow Jews?

Or is it saying that the patients thought they were getting Israeli kidneys, but the rabbis were just funneling kidneys from any old place?

This is such a bizarre case.

OptimusZed

Couscous wrote: »

So the organs weren't necessarily Jewish. Some of the Rabbis were just helping set up the deal.

So they were stealing gentile organs?

Conspiracy theory... confirmed?

Couscous

But why specifically donors from Israel? Just because they would be more likely to help out their fellow Jews?

I assume it is because the rabbis would probably have decent relations and contacts with people in Israel who are willing to give an organ for money and the rabbis loved money plus they could probably justify it to themselves using some shitty excuse.

ElJeffe

OptimusZed wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

So the organs weren't necessarily Jewish. Some of the Rabbis were just helping set up the deal.

So they were stealing gentile organs?

Conspiracy theory... confirmed?

Seriously, it's like every Jewish stereotype squished into one amorphous blob of conspiracy.

The only thing that would make it perfect is if they were trying to recoup the expenses the incurred when they pulled off 9/11.

Xenogears of Bore

Well obviously there aren't enough healthy organs on board the Zionist airships...

Wulf

I can't wait for someone to flip on Corzine! :glee:

also, obligatory Fiddler on the Roof shot...

Spoiler:

shryke

OptimusZed wrote: »

KalTorak wrote: »

New T-shirt: Come to New Jersey - Have a Heart!

I [ ] New Jersey!

Pure Gold.

But seriously, this story can only get better then more of it we hear.

Variable

gigEsmalls wrote: »

The Soprano's is the first the thing that pops in my head when I hear New Jersery. Stories like this... no surprise.

I actually just saw a book about Jersey corruption called "The Soprano State"

Typhoid Manny

this reminds me of the time a wiseguy restaurant owner in Elizabeth tried to burn his place down for the insurance, but fucked up and caught a gas pipe, blowing up an entire block.

i fucking love my state

nexuscrawler

Looking more into this it's almost certain Jersey City's mayor was involved.

in the document they reference an unnamed high ranking official that matches up perfectly with him

The Raging Platypus

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Looking more into this it's almost certain Jersey City's mayor was involved.

in the document they reference an unnamed high ranking official that matches up perfectly with him

Jesus fucking christ, my state is so freakin' retarded.

My landlord's family are HUMONGOUS Healy supporters, so this is going to make for interesting conversation tonight.

nexuscrawler

The Raging Platypus wrote: »

nexuscrawler wrote: »

Looking more into this it's almost certain Jersey City's mayor was involved.

in the document they reference an unnamed high ranking official that matches up perfectly with him

Jesus fucking christ, my state is so freakin' retarded.

My landlord's family are HUMONGOUS Healy supporters, so this is going to make for interesting conversation tonight.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resource ... 23-beldinicheatamshaw.pdf

Read this and tell me "JC official 4' doesn't sound like Healy

Aegis

The NYTimes article on this starts out hilariously:

A two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation stretching from the Jersey Shore to Brooklyn to Israel and Switzerland culminated in the arrests of 44 people on Thursday, including three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen and five rabbis, the authorities said.

The case apparently began with bank fraud charges against a member of an insular Syrian Jewish enclave centered in the seaside town of Deal, N.J. Eventually, stemming from that arrest, a federal informant posed as a crooked real estate developer offering cash bribes to obtain government approvals — and the case mushroomed into a political scandal that could rival any of the most explosive and sleazy episodes in New Jersey’s recent past.

It was replete with tales of the illegal sales of body parts; of furtive negotiations in diners, parking lots, and boiler rooms; of nervous jokes about “patting down” a man who turned out to be an informant; and, again and again, of the passing of cash — once in a box of Apple Jacks cereal stuffed with $97,000, according to prosecutors. F.B.I. agents anticipated seizing so much money that they planned to go to the offices of a federal credit union in Lower Manhattan to use its counting machines, one law enforcement official said.

Mustachio Jones

Best state or best state?

No, seriously. Jersey is the greatest. I am willing to fight people over this.

PantsB

Henroid wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

Aside from the organ thing, none of this is all that surprising.

Well,, we aren't just talking about regular illegal political shit; we are talking about illegal shit that has little to do with politics other than involving politicians.

Not to mention how many were involved in this shit.

Its two D mayors, a D assemblyman and a R assemblyman so far right? Plus a deputy mayor? How many of the 41 are political I wonder. While the politicians are probably there solely because of bribery, I would anticipate the others are more there for the thing they were giving bribes to cover up/facilitate.

ElJeffe wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

ElJeffe wrote: »

So is there a reason they were specifically harvesting Jewish kidneys?

Like, are they kosher, or something?

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the investigation initially focused, with the help of the cooperating witness, on a money-laundering network operating between Brooklyn, Deal and Israel. The network is alleged to have laundered tens of millions of dollars through charities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey.

The organ trafficking allegedly involved patients paying middlemen to find willing donors in Israel. Investigators allege that the suspects had donors and patients lie to hospitals by saying that they were related. Hospitals would do the operation unaware that cash payments were part of the deal.

So the organs weren't necessarily Jewish. Some of the Rabbis were just helping set up the deal.

But why specifically donors from Israel? Just because they would be more likely to help out their fellow Jews?

Or is it saying that the patients thought they were getting Israeli kidneys, but the rabbis were just funneling kidneys from any old place?

This is such a bizarre case.

I wouldn't surprised if the donors in Israel were Palestinians.

HerrCron

Wow.... just... i have no words.

This is both amazing and horrifying, and people claim we have rampant corruption here.

To paraphrase bill hicks

you do not have crooks, like we have crooks.....

Mustachio Jones

It's still great that they got them for like $10k bribes. honestly, that's like nothing.

fmz65

Hmm, here's a tag-line for the tourism department

"Come to New Jersey,
We have an airport international flights pass through so you pretty much fucking have to"

...On second thought that may be too long.

Typhoid Manny

New Jersey: Come for the Guidos, Stay for the humorously corrupt politics

TheScruple

Why would anyone come to New Jersey for the guidos? That's why people leave New Jersey! That, and property taxes.

MrMister

truck-a-sauras wrote: »

Maybe now people will stop telling me I'm a monster for not being an organ donor. All my wild claims of organ hungry psychos have been validated.

The reason stuff like this happens is because not enough people are donors in order to meet the demand. So no, you're still a monster.

lonelyahava

Wait.

A scandal this insane happened in New Jersey and NOBODY who was arrested was from Camden???

My heart. It makes me feel so much better to know that you might be getting better.

Or at least less corrupt.

YamiNoSenshi

lonelyahava wrote: »

Wait.

A scandal this insane happened in New Jersey and NOBODY who was arrested was from Camden???

My heart. It makes me feel so much better to know that you might be getting better.

Or at least less corrupt.

Camden is weird. They actually arrest the straight politicians, since they don't want to spoil the reputation they've worked so hard to obtain. Seriously, I thought Camden was just home to all the run of the will regular shit-hold criminals, none of this white collar crime.

Typhoid Manny

lonelyahava wrote: »

Wait.

A scandal this insane happened in New Jersey and NOBODY who was arrested was from Camden???

My heart. It makes me feel so much better to know that you might be getting better.

Or at least less corrupt.

no one from camden was arrested because cops don't go into camden. they shoot at any vehicle with flashing lights in camden

Rust

Camden is so bad not even Wikipedia can find anything nice to say about it.

Lighting it on fire would count as gentrification.

People from Jersey are allowed to say this things, no touchie!

Rust

double post

Rust

Holy crap for a second there I saw at least five repeat posts, this site's had better nights

Typhoid Manny

in jersey, politicians traditionally go straight from the state house to the big house

lonelyahava

Rust wrote: »

Camden is so bad not even Wikipedia can find anything nice to say about it.

Lighting it on fire would count as gentrification.

People from Jersey are allowed to say this things, no touchie!

Hey hey hey!

My Rutgers campus was pretty awesomesauce.

Just save those 2 blocks and the waterfront, and it's all good.

galenblade

Ah, New Jersey. Armpit of the East Coast.

Captain Carrot

I'm trying so hard not to make a foreskin/circumcision joke.

Darklyre

Typhoid Manny wrote: »

in jersey, politicians traditionally go straight from the state house to the big house

Are you sure it's not vice versa?

shryke

galenblade wrote: »

Ah, New Jersey. Armpit of the East Coast.

Hey! Don't insult my armpits like that!

YamiNoSenshi

galenblade wrote: »

Ah, New Jersey. Armpit of the East Coast.

"Sir, what is this $40,000 item on the budget? I'm not sure what you mean."

"Well, we need to clean up our image as a state."

"Yes, but a deodorant stick 200 miles wide?"