911-Ch. Bollyn-Questions about Olmert's 9/11 Visit to NYC

CHRISTOFER BOLLYN

Questions about Olmert's 9/11 Visit to NYC

June 15, 2011
In an effort to learn more about Ehud Olmert's secret visit to New York City on the eve of 9/11, I sent the following question to Shaul and Meir Levy of Wings beachwear company after trying to reach them through their New York City-based real estate company, the Wings Group.  The Levy brothers, Israeli immigrants of Syrian ancestry, have become extremely wealthy selling beach towels, sun lotions, and beachwear.  I was trying to get answers from Shaul and Meir Levy about their meeting with Ehud Olmert in New York City on September 10, 2001.  Although the meeting was reported in a 2004 article about the Betar football club in the Jerusalem Post there has been no discussion of Olmert's 9/11 visit elsewhere.  The Levys are evidently not interested in answering my questions.

Shaul Levy (here with his wife Elaine) has made millions from his chain of beachwear and souvenir shops in the Carolinas, Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, and California.  Levy gave $2 million to create a Chabad Lubavitch center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  He and his brother were co-owners of the right-wing anti-Arab Betar football club of Jerusalem, which is supposedly the reason they met with Ehud Olmert in New York City on the eve of 9/11.  If that is really all their meeting was about why has it been kept secret?


The Levy brothers, Syrian Jewish immigrants from Israel, came to the United States in 1967.  They oddly named their beachwear chain after the "wings" emblem given to Israeli pilots in the air force.  Their beach stores in Florida are usually staffed by young Israeli men fresh out of the military.  How much sense does that make?  The Wings company has a documented history of allowing the Israeli men running their warehouses to sexually abuse female employees.  Such boorish behavior is actually quite typical in Israeli military operations.  Is the Wings network providing logistical services for the Mossad?


The Levy brothers' retail stores are usually stand along operations with large warehouse spaces in the rear.  This does not make a lot of sense.  Is there an off-the-books backdoor business that has enabled the Levys to become millionaires in a competitive market in which most merchants barely break even?  Every other store in Florida sells beach paraphernalia, including the corner drug store.  How is it possible for the Levys to have done so well with so much competition?  Are they running more than beachwear through their network of stores?  Where does all the money come from?

The Levy brothers have grown their Wings business into plazas...


turning small stores like this one (in the Brompton in 1990) at 200 E 86th Street in New York City (a beach store in Manhattan?)...


into large commercial properties.


The Wings Group is based at 666 Broadway in this building in which they own the majority of the floors, according to their website.  The 666 building is also home to Ariel Levy's Avenue Real Estate.


Some of the Wings Group properties are clearly engaged in logistics, like the Levys' Palmetto Center in Myrtle Beach...


like this unmarked warehouse building at their Airport Industrial Park at Myrtle Beach airport in South Carolina...


or this Miami warehouse next to the Opa-Locka airport in Miami...


or this row of warehouse type buildings at 170-180 Jacobs Lane near the Myrtle Beach airport...


and next to this huge warehouse run by the Israeli Rafi Moshe in Socastee, South Carolina.  Why would an Israeli come to America to run a warehouse in South Carolina?


The warehouse is actually the home of the Israeli-run Strand Imports at 550 George Bishop Parkway - 1 mile from the Myrtle Beach International Airport.  Why are the Levy's invested in warehouse properties near airports on the East Coast?  Is the Levy network involved in drug smuggling?  Is the Wings operation the real reason Israeli "art students" were snooping around DEA offices prior to 9/11?  If you run a large drug smuggling operation you need a multi-state logistics network and inside information from law enforcement agencies to protect the operation.  See the DEA report "Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities"



The Wings group is also developing residential real estate projects in Costa Rica, along the coast - but of course...


and in Jaffa, the old Palestinian port city near Tel Aviv...


and, of course, in Jerusalem - the Israeli occupied capital city of Palestine.  The Levys are very much involved in Israel, especially with the ruling extreme right-wing Betar/Likud faction of Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, Menachem Begin, and Benjamin Netanyahu.  So why did the Levy brothers meet with Ehud Olmert, the Likudnik mayor of Jerusalem, in New York City on the eve of 9/11, and why has this visit been kept secret by the U.S. media and political class?

BOLLYN'S OPEN LETTER TO THE LEVY BROTHERS

I called the Wings Group and asked to speak with Shaul or Meir.  I was told by a receptionist named Andrea that I should send my questions by email.  After two days, I have not received any response so I am posting the email that I sent as an open letter:

Question for Shaul and Meir Levy about Betar and Olmert
Monday, June 13, 2011 7:52 AM
From: "Christopher Bollyn"
To: reception@wingsgroup.comCC: ariel.levy@wingsgroup.com
Shaul and Meir Levy,

I am a journalist working on an article about Ehud Olmert and the Betar football club.  These questions are for the purpose of this article.

The Jerusalem Post reported that you were formerly co-owners of the Betar football club:

"Three years ago, Betar was sold to a four-man consortium (US businessmen Meir and Shaul Levy, local businessman Meir Finegel, and Jerusalem real estate agent Sasson Shem Tov, who pulled out a few weeks ago), following a meeting in New York with then-mayor Ehud Olmert on September 10, 2001. There were no other potential buyers."

Source:   "A fallen empire," by Daniel Ben-Tal, Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2004

I assume Meir Finegel is actually Meir Panigel?  How long were you owners of the Betar club?  What was the purpose of the meeting in New York with Ehud Olmert on September 10, 2001?  Where did this meeting take place?  Did Mr. Olmert remain in New York until September 11, 2001?

Thank you for your consideration of my request,

Christopher Bollyn 

Israel and 9/11: Mossad in Florida

June 6, 2008
Reposted from Bollyn.info

Roy Sarfati, on the left, is the son of the Israeli weapons smuggler, Maurice Sarfati, who runs the family business and websites under the alias Moshe Tzorfati.  Does these Americans really know who they are doing business with?

Is the Israeli Weapons Dealer Maurice Sarfati Still Doing Business in Miami?
Maurice Sarfati, the Miami-based Israeli who brokered the 1989 sale of Israeli weapons to the Medellin drug lord Rodriguez Gacha of the Colombian drug cartel, is apparently still doing business in the Miami area under the alias, Moshe Tzorfati.
Sarfati was one of the Israelis who supplied 500 machine guns (Uzis and Galil assault rifles) and other weapons to one of Colombia's most notorious drug traffickers. The illegal weapons transfer was directed by three Israelis, Maurice R. Sarfati, Yair G. Klein, and Israeli Brig. General (Res.) Pinchas Shachar. The deal was financed by Bank Hapoalim, an Israeli bank in New York.
The Colombian authorities discovered the Israeli-made weapons and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition when they searched the ranch of Jose Rodriguez Gacha after he was ambushed and killed by the Colombian police.
Jane Hunter wrote about the Miami-based Israeli weapons dealers in an article entitled "Covert Operations: The Human Factor." The article appeared in The Link in August 1992.
Hunter wrote about Pinhas Shachar (Shahar):

Shachar, according to a British television report, was a Mossad agent and an “undercover representative” of the state-owned Israeli Military Industries (IMI). He was part of a network of Israeli arms dealers in Miami that had been selling Israeli weapons to Latin America since 1982.

And about Yair Klein:

Klein's work in Colombia, where his Israeli-licensed security company, Spearhead Ltd., trained the hit squads of the Medellin cocaine cartel in assassination and bombing techniques, was beginning to attract unwelcome attention. In August 1989, a promotional film that Spearhead made of the training exercises in Colombia would fall into the hands of Colombian authorities and, to Israel s acute embarrassment, it would be aired by television stations around the world. Colombian authorities would lay much of the blame for the 1989 assassination of a leading presidential candidate, a series of massacres, and the bombings of a passenger aircraft and the headquarters of the domestic intelligence agency on Spearhead's tutelage. In 1988, Klein was in Antigua, looking for a new way to provide arms to his Medellin client, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha.

About the Sarfati Weapons Deal:

In 1988 Shachar, Klein and Sarfati convinced Antiguan officials to provide a false front to ship $381,500 worth of rifles and ammunition to Medellin boss Rodriguez Gacha. Gen. Shachar placed the order with IMI. His name, Klein's and Sarfati's would all appear on the paperwork for the sale and, when the operation was exposed, Shachar would quickly depart for Israel.

In March 1989, Israel dispatched the Medellin's guns on a ship, escorted by Captain Philip Earon, subsequently the deputy mayor of Eilat. The arms would be discovered in January 1990, buried on a farm belonging to Gacha's son, with papers and serial numbers identifying Israel as the source. Already fending off charges that it had sanctioned, or assigned, the Spearhead training team to Columbia, Israel insisted that Antigua had ordered the weapons fair and square. Although, after intense international pressure, it put Klein on trial and handed him a token conviction, Israel insists to this day that its security maestros were training Colombian ranchers.

Klein, depending on which story you believe, was paid in cocaine delivered to him in Israel or in narco-dollars delivered in the U.S. and subsequently transported to Israel by a network of Orthodox Jews specializing in laundering.

Sarfati used his melon farm as a front for Israeli activities with the Colombian drug cartel. Sarfati's illegal business activities on Antigua had been bankrolled with U.S. taxpayer money from the Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), an agency of the U.S. government.

Sarfati's OPIC loan application had been submitted for his company called Roydan (Antigua) Limited. The Roydan company is apparently the combined names of his two sons, Roy J. Sarfati and Dan A. Sarfati.

By July 1988, Roydan Ltd. was $8 million in debt. By February 1989, Sarfati's Roydan Ltd. was no longer in existence, but Sarfati was.

Sarfati had received $1.3 million in loans from OPIC in 1985 and 1986, the Washington Post reported in November 1990. OPIC later suspected that not all of the money ended up in melons. In 1988, OPIC sued Sarfati for defaulting on the loans.

The Post article reported:

The loan requirements of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. read like those of any bank in the United States. The only difference is that OPIC is a government agency and if a borrower doesn't pay back a loan, American taxpayers are the losers.

Under the circumstances, one would expect OPIC to be tight with its money. But one would be disappointed. In recent years OPIC, which lends money for business ventures in developing countries, has come under increasing scrutiny for risky loan practices. Now an investigation into an arms deal threatens to resurrect one loan that OPIC would just as soon keep buried.

Although there is no evidence that Sarfati was involved in arms trafficking at the time the loans were made, court documents from OPIC's 1988 lawsuit when Sarfati defaulted indicate he was a risky loan. OPIC did a marginal job in checking out Sarfati before handing him $1.3 million.

For example, in 1983 Sarfati had the Bank of Credit and Commerce in Miami send OPIC a letter of recommendation. The bank called Sarfati "one of our valued customers" and said he had five companies with accounts at the bank. Sarfati later testified in the lawsuit that three of the companies either had no assets or never got off the ground.

In 1988, the General Accounting Office looked into Sarfati and found that if OPIC had looked closely enough, it would have found that the melon business was showing a loss before OPIC gave Sarfati a second loan.

Maurice Sarfati is apparently still doing business in Miami under the name Moshe Tzorfati. The Sarfati family has a website called the D.R.I.M. group, which apparently uses the first initial of the four family members: Dan, Roy, Ilana, and Maurice -- or Moshe.
The website www.drimgroup.com says this about the D.R.I.M. Group:

Established in 1995, The D.R.I.M. GROUP is a multi faceted group of companies, with diversified activities:

-Strategic Consulting in sophisticated financing vehicles for income producing real estate and other specific type of businesses.

-Commercial Aviation Consulting.

-Research and Development of a treatment method (Patent pending) for speech dysfluency (stuttering), language and communication disorders.

-Development of specialized centers in traditional and alternative healthcare.

The website provides the contact information:

USA :
4601 Sheridan Street
Suite 301
Hollywood, FLORIDA 33021
Tel: 954-965 6924
954-965 6925
Fax: 954-965 6926

MTzorfati@drimgroup.com

MTzorfati is evidently Moshe Tzorfati, whose website domain is registered at: 19901 E Country Club Dr., Apt. 2101, in Miami. This is in the Zip Code area of 33180, where the Sarfati family (ies) have several residences and relations.
Moshe Tzorfati and Maurice Sarfati are both listed as living at 20314 NE 34th Court. After his criminal role was exposed in supplying weapons to the Colombian drug cartel, he evidently decided to change the spelling of his name. Maurice Sarfati is the name of a famous French actor but that name could no longer be used in Miami and the United States.
Here is Sarfati's old listing from the U.S. Public Records Index:

Name: Maurice Sarfati (along with Ilana and Roy J.)
Birth Date: Jun 1941
Street address: 20314 NE 34th CT
City: Miami
County: Miami-Dade
State: Florida
Zip Code: 33180
Phone Number: 305-466-1832
Record Number: 829168268

Here he is after his Israeli makeover with an new Hebrew alias:

Name: Moshe Tzorfati
Street address: 20314 NE 34th CT
City: Miami
County: Miami-Dade
State: Florida
Zip Code: 33180
Phone Number: 305
Record Number: 838149884

It is interesting that the Sarfati's D.R.I.M. group is involved in aviation, finance, and healthcare. Here are the sections from the website:

Aviation

The Aviation Consulting Division has extensive experience in commercial aviation. Specifically in the formation of start up companies for passengers transport, charter programs, and cargo airline.

The Aviation Consulting Division, provides a variety of services, including over-flight rights, landing rights, and opening new routes. Such services were provided to governments, international travel corporations, and airlines. We are uniquely placed to facilitate aircraft refurbishing and pre sale inspections.

Financing

The Financial Strategic Consulting Division developed a structure specifically designed for qualified start up or existing corporations acquiring income producing real estate, to use this vehicle, and seek financing under certain terms, by way of a Private Offering(rule 144-A). This ready structure reduces considerably the time and costs, usually required.

The D.R.I.M. GROUP engaged a leading legal institution, and a team of experts in sophisticated Asset Backed Securities transactions, to adapt the structure.

Healthcare

Communication Disorders

The D.R.IM. GROUP developed a comprehensive treatment program,The Ultimate TM SpeechCare Systems, for individuals who stutter. Innovative and unique techniques, presently under patent review, were developed by Roy J. Sarfati, MS,CCC-SLP, and incorporated for the first time in specific intensive treatment programs for children and adults. Our team consist of highly trained clinicians in a variety of fields, is at the forefront of progress.

Rejuvenation and Anti-Aging

This program is one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive available today. Headed and developed by Dr. Cass Terry MD,Ph.D., one of the world leading experts in this field, the program is designed to address every facet of aging and rejuvenation.

Geriatric and Rehabilitation Centers

The D.R.I.M. GROUP began diversifying into healthcare in 1997. Its team designed and developed a unique program for Geriatric and Rehabilitation Centers, operated with the state of the art technology.

The activities of the Sarfati family clearly show how Israeli criminals working with their network in Miami are able to operate with impunity. At least for the illegal transfer of weapons to the Colombian drug cartel Maurice Sarfati (a.k.a. Moshe Tzorfati) should be prosecuted and tried. Why has the U.S. government not pursued its case against Sarfati, the Israeli criminal who masterminded illegal Colombian weapons deals from his home in Miami?
Sources and Recommended Reading:
Bollyn, Christopher, "9-11: The Florida Connection", 21 May 2008
http://www.bollyn.com/9-11-the-florida-connection