Eliyahu Ezagui Arrested Monday 7/14/08 - Result of the Mesira by Rabbi Osdoba Family

[Kovod_Harabonim]

Wednesday 7/16/2008



A Full 2 Days after DaasHakohol posted our exclusive SCOOP story Monday 7/14/2008 about the Ezagui Arrest - the Daily News, finnaly posted the story today Wednesday 7/16/2008.


The Daily News officaly confirmed allegations by DaasHakohol.com, that Rabbi Y. Osdoba is guilty of MESIRA (Snitching) and that Rabbi Y. Odsdoba's MESIRA is DIRECTLY responsible, in DIRECTLY causing the current Ezagui Arrest.


The Daily News Confirms it by saying:


"The (Arrest, is the direct) results of a Daily News investigation, published April 27, led directly to a Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office investigation and his subsequent arrest".

The Daily News Investigation was as a results of Rabbi Osdoba's interview with the Daily News.





Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, (One of the 2 Elected Rabbonim of the Badataz) the father of the Moser, has written a letter calling for "DIN RODEF", upon several members of the community when they went to the authorities, although WITH permission of a Beis Din.

Howver, Y. Osdoba and others had a Din Torah with Ezagui and Lost the D.T. against Ezagui, yet Osdoba went to MOSSER anyway, without Reshus Beis Din.

Will Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba call for a "Din Rodef" for his own son, Rabbi Y. Osdoba who is responsible for the current Ezagui Arrest?

Click here to view Rabbi Osdoba Biased "Selective Justice" of Din Rodef PDF


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No bail after fugitive developer busted, charged in massive condo scam



BY JOHN MARZULLI AND WILLIAM SHERMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Wednesday, July 16th 2008, 4:00 AM


A Brooklyn developer accused of swindling some 40 Crown Heights families out of millions was ordered held without bail Tuesday night after returning from his Israel hideout.


Eliyahu Ezagui, 47, pocketed $15 million in mortgages on condos he sold to families living in two buildings he developed in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Authorities said it was the biggest local case of subprime mortgage fraud on record.


All the families are Hasidic, like Ezagui, and face eviction because Ezagui stopped making payments on the buildings at 770 Lefferts Ave. and 613 East New York Ave. He obtained the mortgages because he kept the apartments' deeds, rather than turning them over to buyers.

Ezagui fled to Israel late last year after his scheme started unraveling and was arrested on a warrant Sunday at Kennedy Airport.


The results of a Daily News investigation, published April 27, led directly to a Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office investigation and his subsequent arrest.


Federal Magistrate Marilyn Go rejected bail backed by a building owned by Ezagui's brother Solomon after prosecutor Jonathan Green argued Ezagui was a flight risk, entering The News articles as evidence.


Meanwhile, tenants facing eviction, most of whom knew Ezagui, had mixed emotions about his arrest. Jeff Minsky, who lives at 613 East New York Ave., said, "He has a wife and children, and I don't like to see anyone like that go to jail, but he did something that is getting us thrown out after he had chances to fix it. He has the money."


Robert Tolchin, lawyer for 17 tenant families facing eviction, said litigation with mortgage lending banks and Ezagui is continuing in Brooklyn Civil Court. Numerous foreclosure notices have been served, but no tenants have been evicted.


"Ezagui passed up many chances to straighten out this mess. The law finally caught up with him," Tolchin said.


In April, Ezagui told The News he was bankrupt, that he had tried develop the buildings properly and transfer the deeds to the tenants, but ran out of money.


In a telephone interview from Israel, Ezagui said he obtained the mortgages, including 13 in his mother's name, to pay off more than $3.3 million in loans he took out to finance construction of the buildings.

"I'm bankrupt. I hurt my parents, my family and I destroyed everything," Ezagui told The News.

wsherman@nydailynews.com