Jewish Pedophile Extradited from Isreal

Stefan Colmer, suspected of sodomizing two 13-year-old boys from the haredi Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York was extradited on Tuesday from Israel where he'd been hiding under an assumed name (David Cohen).

A revamped extradition treaty between the United States and Israel, which went into effect January 10, 2007, allowed Colmer to be returned to Brooklyn. Prior to the newly amended treaty, Israel and the US had agreed to extradite suspected sex criminals only if they had been charged with rape. Since last January, at least two other sex offenders have been extradited, including Michael Leon Zeve and Kenneth Frank.

Grand Rabbi among those arrested for money laundering.

The grand rabbi of Spinka, a Brooklyn-based Hasidic sect, was among six people arrested and charged with creating a money laundering scheme that spanned from Los Angeles to Israel.