Newark, NJ – Government informant Solomon Dwek choked up while testifying in the Leona Beldini corruption trial this afternoon and was asked whether he has any friends outside of FBI agents.
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The emotional moments in the Newark courtroom for the man who has admitted swindling his friends, family, Jewish community and banks came after defense attorney Brian Neary played a portion of videotape during a meeting where Beldini, who was Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy’s campaign treasurer as well as the deputy mayor, said Healy’s word is gold.
“All I can ask for, I have the mayor, I have the deputy mayor, that’s all I can ask for, I’m on top,” Dwek said.
On the witness stand today, Dwek said: “I don’t know if I was schooled to say those exact words but I was schooled to say something to that effect.
Beldini watches Healy’s back, Neary says and says she was appointed deputy mayor because she and Healy are friends.
“You know what a friend is, Mr. Dwek,” Neay says, asking if Dwek has any friends. “How many are not FBI agents?”
There is a long pause.
“It is a very difficult question to answer,” Dwek responds.
“You don’t have a father as a friend.”
After a pause: “No.”
“Mother as a friend.”
Pause.
“No.”
Now Dwek is clearly choked up.
“Don’t have Uncle Joe as a friend.”
Dwek, emotional, looks down and can’t answer for several seconds. He puts his hand to his face and finally answers: “No.”
“Don’t have all the members of the community you stole money from.”
Pause.
“No.”
Each answer is given after a longer and longer pause.
After the line of questioning ends, Dwek takes off his glasses and rubs his eyes. He puts his glasses back on and rubs his nose before grimacing.
Neary quickly returned to the video clip and continued his third day of meticulous cross-examination that has turned into a duel between him and Dwek.
Little to late
I think the gov told him if you don’t become a informant we will kill you and your family.
I have seen him he is the nicest guy
B’h finally he realizes that at the end of the day friends r what counts…..just a little too late
This is the first good signs that he is finally realizing that he lost it all. While he might sit a few years less in jail, his life on the outside is worthless, and we shouldn’t be surprised if he commits suicide. That will happen when he realizes that the FBI aren’t his friends either. Anyone who betrays his own family is not respected even by his so called FBI friends. Even a carnivorous animal doesn’t eat their own.
Do you smell tsheuvah or its only me?
Good Good Let him think all day and night what he did, dying is to good of a punishment to him. let him live alone like a dog and think that the fbi are his freinds.
Personally, I feel bad for him. This whole thing is a snowball effect. I hear that the feds threatened him BIG time after the whole bounced check story. They told him “either you flip or you’ll sit forever”. Obviously, he should have made the decision to keep his mouth shut, but the threat of never seeing one’s family again would make anyone do crazy things. I’m sure he regrets not keeping his mouth shut, and wishes he hadn’t done what he’s done. I’m also sure he never thought it would come to this.
What does this change? in terms of the case. so he admits that he is alone, as well he should be, but how does this effect the case?
what do you expect? you knew when you were unloyal to your family and friends that the will hate you but I don’t know why his wife is still with him since he was unloyal to her by running a prostitution ring on his gambling boat
I feel bad for him but that doesn’t mean he deserves rachmanus. He did it to himself. What a Rasha.
I am affraid of what will follow, once the other trials will start.
As Much As I Hate ShLoMo Dwek It Makes Me Cry Remembering How He Was Just 5 Summers Ago. I Know All Of His Family Members And In Laws And I Cant Stand Reading This Anymore. There Is No Way Shlomo Doesnt Regret The Whole He Dug Himself Into. The Fact That He Has To Think That His Sweet Father And Sweeter Mother Dont Have Anything To Do With Him Can Make Him Go Nuts. And Thats What Happened.
Mr. Dweck , my heart goes out for you. Now , many people wish,that your heart would go … never mind.
I really don’t have a bit rachmunis on him!! He brought this to him self !!
cry away while 44 families suffer.
shame on him. no sympathy from me.
I know this will elicit a response from other VIN readers and in now way am I saying what Dwek did is acceptable is any way, but I cannot read this and not have rachmanus on him. Imagine how hard it is to come to terms with the fact that one’s father and mother who raised him is no longer “a friend.”
a little after madof went to prison one reporter asked his inmates how they feel about him so they said that they respect him becuse he didnt tel what he knew about other people which could of helped him to get a smaller time in prison!
but dwek went and did the opposite by pulling in people…. so what can we say?….
I really feel very sorry for him. He definitely regrets what he did.. #1 its NEVER too late but difficult to move the clock backwards… I wish that somehow he gets back into our community (yiddishkeit). Tshuva DOES apply here “IF” we ppl feel like it accepting his apology… The “Shchina” is crying :'(
He knew all along he could get away with it.
He will do what he wants & when he exits jail, he will return to Deal, & say Chatati Aviti Ufashati ani Oseh tshuva with a big cry of crockedile tears, and all will fall for it, he will be back in & back to the top before you could say boo. Then watch out all your rachmanus he will fleece you again.
Reshaim meleim charata, reshayim afilu bepischoi shel gehinom ainom chozrim bitshuva.
On his first tear you fall for it & pitty him. I don’t buy it all I hope that the jury sees that this witness is so impartial & such a dishonest crook, that they vindicate this guy, and by Purim they toss all the other cases out.
What a shame williamson plead guilty.
Solomon Dwek looks like like carp fish. Do you agree???
sad, sad, sad, far reaching for all of klal yisroe.
When desperately need moshiach
You don’t have to be a psychologist to see on his face that he is one tortured soul, this attorny seems to be great but I don’t get what the above helps the client.
you could have seen him, and he can act like a nice guy, and even BE a nice guy, but compulsive liars and psychopaths etc, can still be addicted to robbing. You can’t be so liberal as to say that because someone is nice that they must be not as bad as they were made out to be.
It is a sad waste of a life. Hopefully he will become a better person in jail, do teshuva, and do mitzvos in jail and otherwise.
At least he has a wife and children, which is more than me (and many others).
It’s not so pashut that he’s not speaking to his parents. Things have changed.
Nice show by dwek to gain some mercy, it’s all a big show, don’t get fooled by this lowlife’s shtik
Does anyone know if the kids go to cheder?
Why did the Baltimore Community accept him?
מורידים ולא מעלים וכ״ש שאין מרחמים עליו.
Look at what one tear in Mr Drek face brings out so much ROCHMONUT from our readers. There is a pool of tears from hundreds of people being accused and facing jail and many problems because of this piece of DREK. He will one day drown in is own tears. As they say, your day will come, and you will not have a father ,mother, wife (she will leave you, guaranteed) , children, or friends to comfort you. The FBI will squeeze the last drop of blood out of you and throw you to the wolfs. You deserve it. Rot in jail . You will never be forgiven for your MASUROT.
he was told to do and act so by his attorney
Shlomo, time to back down, bite the bullet, no more testifying.
sad, sad, sad, far reaching for all of klal yisroe.
When desperately need moshiach
SOF HAGANEV LTLIA!!!!
Its defiantly all a game he has no bit of remorse
Remember he didn’t do a wild step he did it day in day out for two years
He is a musserr in cold blood
De gemara in bubh metzieh says when one hiers faulse witness the hierer is the first to dipise them, (fbi)
2) Mee shehee RACHMON al ACHZER soif naaseh ACHZER al RACHMONE. Wake up
Mr Dwek . how much suffering did you cause your family? The families that you caused to stumble? the loses and damage you caused to organizations ? the mistrust?the stolen money the damage to the community? how many people will die without a liver transplant and what about the massive chilul hashe-m? sholomo u can still do teshuba! go to each and everyone of the families that you hurt . beg cry plead for their forgiveness. refuse to testify from this day forward. sit in solitutude in jail . immerserse yourself in torah and tefila and musar . take fasts upon yourself . do a full teshuva and you can still find favor in the one above . its NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE. if u don’t do this , the life that you have will always be empty. no simchas . no shul . no friends but a dark cold life . the ball is in your court , I hope that you listen to me . sincerely a community guy
Could some one answer the qwastion of #8
Dreck can stop testifing any time he wants .
Crocodile tears is what he is crying.
Just say no to the fbi and deal with hisown trial the best he can.
The whole world does not have to suffer for his sins.
his wife is only with him till everything is over otherwise she would have to sit time as well since most of the properties are in her name.
He’s fat, bald, selfish, and has no friends. One word describes this situation best. Killself.
He is going to gladly do and say in trial whatever the FBI tells him to do and say. Everything is a stage. EVERYTHING. He is the FBI’s hand puppet, plain and simple. They pull the strings and he moves to their beat. To believe anything else makes you a complete and utter gullible fool. He’s been doing everything they have asked of him for years already, and they are going to use him until the last drop. Whatever they could get him to do or say, they will not hesitate to use to their advantage. Wake up people. This is ONE BIG SHOW. He’s acting just as he has scammed 44 people already. Oh no he’s crying. Boo Hoo. Do me a favor – The acting is making me sick. The world should not view this abomination as a member of the Jewish community.
i guess his wife isnt his friend or his children too
he can go to any bar in baltimore and makes friends ………. he probably does
On May 7, 1931, the most sensational manhunt New
York City had ever known had come to it’s climex.
After weeks of search, “Two Gun” Crowley—the killer,
the gunman who didn’t smoke or drink—was at
bay, trapped in his sweetheart’s apartment on West
End Avenue.
One hundred and fifty policemen and detectives laid
siege to his top-floor hideaway. They chopped holes in
the roof; they tried to smoke out Crowley, the “cop
killer,” with tear gas. Then they mounted their machine
guns on the surrounding buildings, and for more
then an hour one New York’s fine residential areas
reverberated with the crack of pistol fire and the rat-
tat-tat of machine guns. Crowley, crouching behind an
overstuffed chair, fired incessantly at the police. Ten
thousand excited people watched the battle. Nothing
like it had ever been seen before on the sidewalks of
New York.
When Crowley was captured, Police Commissioner
E.P. Mulroney declared that the two-gun desperado
was one of the most dangerous criminals ever encountered
in the history of New York. “He will kill,” said
The Commissioner, “at the drop of a feather.”
But how did “Two Gun” Crowley regard himself?
We know, because while the police were firing into his
apartment, he wrote a letter addressed “To whom it
may concern.” And, as he wrote, the blood flowing
from his wounds left a crimson trail on the paper. In
his letter Crowley said: “Under my coat is a weary
heart, but a kind one—-one that would do nobody any harm.”
A short time before this, Crowley had been having a
necking party with his girl friend on a country road out
on Long Island. Suddenly a policeman walked up to
the car and said: “Let me see your license.
Without saying a word, Crowley drew his gun and
cut the policeman down with a shower of lead. As the
dying officer fell, Crowley leaped out of the car,
grabbed the officer’s revolver, and fired another bullet
into the prostrate body. And that was the killer who said:
“Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one–
–one that would do nobody any harm.”
[ Crowlet was sentenced to the electric chair. When
he arrived at the death house in Sing Sing, did he say,
“This is what I get for killing people”? NO, he said:
“This is what I get for defending myself.”
The point of the story is this: “Two Gun” Crowley
Didn’t blame himself for anything.
That is the usual attitude amongst criminals!!!]
its all lies hes still in touch with most of his siblings/parents
רשעים מלאים חרטות
the baltimore community did not accept him. they accepted his wife & children & only b/c rabbonim & gedolim paskened that the community should do so.
Oh, Please. What a fake he is! Who can fall for this melodrama?
if he had enough money he wouldnt need friends