Jackie Mason is no stranger to controversy. The Jewish-American comedian is known for his stand-up act, which he started in the 1960s in his fast paced, thick Brooklyn, New York Jewish accent. He has acted in several movies and TV shows. His most recent work is a video blog and CD called The Ultimate Jew in which he comments on current events.
I’ll tell you the truth. Barack Obama isn’t only fooling the Jews. He’s fooling all the people of America. Right now, people are determined to prove they can vote for a Black person because they were told they’re racists all their lives. White men are walking around feeling guilty thinking if they don’t vote for Barack Obama, they’re racists.
But as far as the Jews are concerned, they are still wedded to the Democratic party, when the Democratic party is not interested in Israel. The Democratic party has voted very often against Israel on major issues. The Republican party is determined to help Israel almost more than the Jews are. Even the Hassidic Jews. I don’t care how religious you are. They’re not as willing to fight for Israel as the Evangelical Goyim. But since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Jews have been told that the Republicans are for big business and not for the underdog. The Jews feel the Democrats are helping the struggling people. And they still believe it. The Jews are more willing to feel guilty for not helping a poor person than anybody else is. Because a Jew has to feel that he’s always compassionate and always helping the underdog.
A Miami man was convicted for his participation in a fraud scheme involving a marijuana growing conspiracy, according to Jeffrey H. Sloman, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
Noel Albanes-Gomez was convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud charges. Sentencing for Albanes-Gomez has been scheduled for Jan. 22, 2010, before U.S. District Court Judge Jose E. Martinez.
In May 2006, Port St. Lucie police began an investigation, soon joined by the Drug Enforcement Administration, that led to the discovery of numerous hydroponic marijuana grow houses in St. Lucie County. These marijuana grow houses were established and operated by the Pupo organization.
According to the trial evidence, in September 2005, Albanes-Gomez purchased a house on Chello Lane in Port St. Lucie at the behest of Elieser Pupo. Co-defendant Magalys Fajardo, a mortgage broker, testified at trial that she falsified Albanes-Gomez’s mortgage application as part of her agreement with Albanes-Gomez and co-defendant Pupo.
The mortgage application contained materially false information regarding the intended use of the property and Albanes-Gomez’s employment and income. Fajardo previously pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 27 months in prison.
Another witness, Liban Beritan, testified that he was recruited by Pupo to maintain the house that would be used to grow and distribute marijuana. Pupo and his brothers converted this house into a hydroponic grow house, equipped with a sophisticated timed watering and lighting system with electric meter diversions.
According to Beritan, he was required to sign a lease with Albanes-Gomez. As part of the agreement, Pupo paid for Beritan’s living expenses and transportation, and supplied and set up the grow house materials (including marijuana plants). As well, Pupo taught Beritan how to care for and harvest the mature marijuana plants.
Beritan was one of the original grow farmers charged when the houses were discovered in May 2006. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five months I prison, followed by four years of supervised release.
Albanes-Gomez testified in his own defense and admitted that he bought the house at the behest of his lifelong friend, Pupo, because of his good credit and as an investment. He denied knowing the mortgage application was false. He also admitted that Pupo made all payments, including his deposit on the property.
During his testimony, Albanes-Gomez admitted to owning a grow house in Miami in November 2005 but denied any knowledge of the marijuana growing in his Port St. Lucie property.
Elieser Pupo and his brothers, Manuel, Serguey and Elmer, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute more than 100 marijuana plants, conspiracy to maintain a place to manufacture and distribute marijuana, conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering earlier this month and are scheduled for sentencing in December.
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Sandy Hutchens team member – The Miami “Soup Nazi” is facing charges in the biggest U.S. case of credit and debit card fraud.
His real name is Albert Gonzalez and the U.S. federal prosecutors are charging him and two other Russian hackers in Newark, N.J., with conspiracy, theft and fraud for allegedly infiltrating merchandiser networks to steal data on over 100 million consumers.
Albert Gonzalez and his cohorts targeted 7-Eleven and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers.
The accused also targetted Heartland Payment Systems, one of the largest processors of payments ranging from credit cards to cheques and online transactions.
Earlier in 2009, Canada’s five largest banks and Canadian Tire confirmed a small number of customers may have been affected by a security breach at Heartland.
Experts said the case demonstrates once more how easily hackers can create financial havoc for companies and consumers. There is without a doubt a serious need for vigilance in protecting private data.
Calling the case the largest known theft of credit and debit card data in the U.S., prosecutors said the Soup Nazi led “injection attacks” to penetrate computer networks, pillage card data and then transfer that information to “malicious” servers in California, Illinois, the Netherlands, the Ukraine and Latvia.
Gonzalez used the following online names: “segvec” “j4guar17″ and “Soup Nazi,” the latter a reference to the Seinfeld character who was a skilled chef with a nasty demeanour.
The indictment referred to the other two defendants as “Hacker 1″ and “Hacker 2″ residing “in or near Russia.” They are not in confinement.
The three face a maximum five years in prison for conspiracy and another 30 years for fraud plus fines of up to $1.25 million or twice the gain from the offences, whichever is greater.
Starting in October 2006, the trio allegedly colluded in scanning the list of Fortune 500 companies to select prospective targets and then seek out weaknesses in their online consumer systems.
They stole account data in order to sell it to other parties intent on making fraudulent purchases or unauthorized bank withdrawals, the indictment added.
The trio utilized a number of clever methods to hide their hacking efforts and data breaches, including the use of “proxy” computers.
Yesterday’s indictments aside, “the sophisticated level of the hacking community has evolved to the point where many people believe that the bad guys are five years ahead of the good guys,” Levin said in an interview from New York.