(WMR)—Following President Obama’s January 28 State of the Union address, New York Republican congressman Michael Grimm not only threatened to throw Michael Scotto, a reporter for NY1 news, over a balcony in the Cannon House Office building but threatened to “break him in half . . . like a boy.” Grimm was upset over Scotto asking Grimm about allegations of campaign malfeasance. Grimm told Scotto, “Let me be clear to you, you ever do that to me again I’ll throw you off this fucking balcony.”
Scotto’s uncle is Anthony Scotto, a former head of the Brooklyn Longshoreman’s Union and a boss in the Gambino mafia crime family.
Grimm, a former Marine and FBI agent, is accused of accepting illegal campaign cash in his 2010 campaign. One of his campaign cash bundlers, Ofer Biton, an Israeli citizen, pleaded guilty to visa fraud last August. Grimm’s former girlfriend, Diana Durand, was arrested earlier this month in connection with the federal investigation of Grimm’s alleged campaign fraud.
Grimm also stands accused of accepting illegal cash donations from Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, whose Manhattan East Side congregation has attracted the likes of former New York Congressman and lewd Twitter aficionado Anthony Weiner. A former aide to Pinto claimed on Israeli television that Pinto foresaw the 9/11 attack. Pinto’s aide said, “We came to New York and we saw these two towers standing out in Manhattan . . . [Pinto said] ‘A devastating tragedy with airplanes will occur here.’” After a multi-year investigation of 9/11, WMR concluded that Israel was actively involved in the planning for and carrying out of the 9/11 attacks, using Saudi agents, as well as Arab dupes as cover.
WMR has been informed by sources close to New York’s legal community that Grimm’s rabbi troubles do not end with Pinto. Grimm also allegedly received foreign contributions to his campaign through the auspices of individuals connected to Orthodox Rabbi Jacob Ostreicher.
Ostreicher was arrested in Bolivia in 2011 for his alleged involvement in a fraudulent investment scheme involving co-conspirators in Bolivia, Brazil, and Switzerland. Ostreicher was held in a Bolivian prison for 18 months for alleged money laundering. Ostreicher’s case was taken up by actor Sean Penn who pressured the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales to release Ostreicher. In December 2013, Ostreicher was released by Bolivia, traveled to Peru, and flown to the United States where he was reported to be in an undisclosed location with Penn.
In turn, Bolivia’s government arrested fifteen people, including many of the prosecutors, judges, and government officials who handled the case against5 Ostreicher, for running an extortion ring. Israel’s lobby in the United States, including New York State Assemblyman Dov Hifkind and the Anti-Defamation League, brought pressure on the Bolivian government to drop its case against Ostreicher and release him from prison. Bolivia went one step better for the Lobby by charging all those who helped investigate and bring charges against the Brooklyn rabbi and the alleged money laundering and drug smuggling ring in Bolivia of running an extortion operation.
Our New York legal sources also claim that Grimm’s problems extend further to accepting illegal donations from the late New York slum lord and Hasidic Rabbi Menachem Stark. In early January, Stark’s half burnt corpse was pulled from a dumpster at a Getty gas station in Great Neck, New York. Stark owned some of New York’s worst roach and rat infested dwellings that served mainly as crack houses and centers for other illegal activity. Although members of New York’s Jewish community praise Stark for his “philanthropy,” the New York Post quoted one New York City police official saying of Stark, “He’s a Hasidic Jew from Williamsburg, and we think he’s a scammer . . . And he fucked over a few people.”
The word from the corridors of New York City’s court houses is that Grimm was placed in office by a group of crooked Jewish rabbis who are suspected of running rackets from organ harvesting, money laundering, diamond and drug smuggling, usurious loan sharking operations, as well as covering up for child sexual abuse among Brooklyn’s large Hasidic population. It is the last item on the rabbinical rap sheet that likely helped prompt Grimm to warn Scotto, who is reportedly gay, “I’ll break you in half . . . like a boy.“
These are the Grimm facts on one of the dirtiest members of the U.S. Congress, a distinction that is difficult to achieve with all the competition.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Dear Wayne,
This is a great story. Having grown up in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, near the Hasidic hood there, I’m very happy that you nailed the nasty business they’re up to. But more so, I’m happy that you nailed the roided bully known as Michael Grimm, who is truly grim. I knew, too, that the Scotto family has mob ties, despite the fact that Rosanna Scotto is an anchorwoman for Fox Five. Justice would be served if the family set loose Anthony Scotto to catch up with Grimm, so we’d truly see a little ass-busting, well-deserved for this adult bully. Michael Scotto, I believe is in the D.C. office of NY-1 and is much beloved there as in NYC. All the reporters came to his defense within 24 hours after the incident occurred. Additionally, I think Grimm is a sociopath who should be removed from office, and do some time for the “near death-threats” he made. You don’t survive “being broken in half like a boy” and being thrown off a marble balcony. I think there’s cause for indicting him, at least before Uncle Tony Scotto gets his hands on him.
Gracia,
Jerry Mazza.