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Michael Chertoff - Wikipedia

In September 1986, together with United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudolph Giuliani, Chertoff was instrumental in the crackdown on organized crime in the Mafia Commission Trial. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C…

In 1983, the Federal Bureau of Investigation recorded several wire tapped conversations of Ralph Scopo extorting money from contractors.

In 1983, members of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) installed an electronic surveillance device inside the dashboard on

Salvatore Avellino's Jaguar while he and his wife were at a dinner dance.

According to Colombo hitman and FBI informant Gregory Scarpa, Carmine "Junior" Persico and Gambino boss John Gotti backed a plan to kill the lead prosecutor, and future New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani in

late 1986, but it was rejected by the rest of the Commission.

In 1980, FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio became Scarpa's contact and handler and restarted his relationship with the FBI.

After having emergency ulcer surgery at Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn in 1986, Scarpa

received several blood donations from family members and associates. Scarpa had refused blood from the hospital blood bank.

Scarpa eventually got blood from mobster Paul Mele, a bodybuilder who was using injectable anabolic steroids. Mele had contracted HIV from a dirty needle

and transmitted it to Scarpa in the blood transfusion.

Scarpa's status as an informer was only revealed in 1995, during a racketeering and murder trial of seven members of the Orena faction. At that time, former Colombo family consigliere Carmine Sessa, now a government witness,

told prosecutors about DeVecchio's corrupt dealings with Scarpa.

Michael Chertoff mother was Livia Chertoff (née Eisen), a naturalized American citizen after having held status under a British mandate and the first flight attendant for El Al.

In the 1950's, Abigail S. Koppel’s

father, who is now retired, opened the first ticket office in New York for El Al Israel Airlines.

Abigail S. Koppel married Leslie H. Wexner, the founder and chairman of the Limited Inc.

A. Alfred Taubman served as a mentor for Les Wexner, starting in the mid 1960s, and the two

partnered on many deals involving Taubman's shopping malls.

Wexner addressed the Wexner Foundation, releasing a written statement that his former financial advisor, Jeffrey Epstein, had “misappropriated vast sums of money” from him and from his family. Les Wexner retained the

services of Debevoise & Plimptoncriminal defense attorney and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Mary Jo White.

After President Bill Clinton's controversial last-day presidential pardons, Mary Jo White was appointed by new Attorney General John Ashcroft

to investigate Marc Rich's pardon.

Marc Rich sold Iranian oil to Israel through a secret pipeline. Due to his good relationship with Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini, Rich helped give Mossad's agents contacts in Iran.

Marc Rich and Marvin Davis bought 20th Century Fox in 1981.

Mary Jo White stepped down before the investigation was finished and was replaced by James Comey.

Marc Rich's lawyer, Jack Quinn, had previously been Clinton's White House Counsel and chief of staff to Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, and had had a close relationship with

Eric Holder.

In 2000, Jack Quinn co-founded Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a public affairs and public relations firm with Ed Gillespie.

Until late 2016, Jack Quinn was a director of Constellis, a holding company that includes several private security companies (including

Academi, Triple Canopy, and The Olive Group) that provide security services and training to both governmental and private sector clients. Quinn co-chaired the Governance and Compliance Committee of Academi with former Attorney General and Senator John Ashcroft.

In September 2016, Constellis was bought by Apollo.

Apollo was formed in 1990 by Leon Black, Josh Harris, and Marc Rowan, former investment bankers at the defunct Drexel Burnham Lambert.

In March 2021, Leon Black resigned as CEO and chairman after revelations that he paid

Jeffrey Epstein $158 million for personal tax-related advice between 2012 and 2017. He was replaced as CEO by Marc Rowan.

In July 2022, investment funds managed by Apollo acquired Tenneco.

Jeff Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader.

He swiftly moved up to become an options trader, working in the special products division, and then advised the bank's wealthiest clients, such as Seagram president Edgar Bronfman, on

tax mitigation strategies.

In 1991, Les Wexner formed with billionaire Charles Bronfman the Study Group, which is more widely known as the Mega Group.

The group was a loosely organized club of some of the country's wealthiest and most influential businessmen who were concerned

with Jewish issues. Max Fisher, Michael Steinhardt, Leonard Abramson, Edgar Bronfman, and Laurence Tisch

Micheal Steinhardt is an offspring of the Prohibition-era "Jewish Syndicate" of National Crime Boss Meyer Lansky. His father, Sol Frank "Red" Steinhardt, was a bigtime

gambler and convicted jewel fence, who worked with Meyer Lansky.

Together with his friend Bernie Cornfeld, Tibor Rosenbaum founded the Banque De Credit International Genève in Geneva in 1959, which went bankrupt in 1976, combined with a considerable loss of prestige for the

Hessische Landesbank, which was most recently closely associated with it. Rosenbaum originally financed arms purchases for Israel through the bank. For the major organized crime figure Meyer Lansky, who first met Rosenbaum in 1965, the bank also opened a connection to Israel.

Sylvain Ferdman, who was BCI's office manager in Geneva, acted as "money courier" for Meyer Lansky and other U.S. customers of the bank.

Shmuel (Charles) Rosenbaum as Geneva head of investment vehicle Cifco, was an associate of Ephraim Margulies notable for the Guinness

share-trading fraud related to Ivan Boesky.

The Guinness share-trading fraud involved the manipulation of the London stock market to inflate the price of Guinnessshares to thereby assist Guinness's £4 billion takeover bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers.

In 1947, British Petroleum Chemicals was incorporated as a joint venture of BP and Distillers Company.

From 1942, Distillers Biochemicals (DCBL) operated an Agency Factory of the British Ministry of Supply manufacturing penicillin in Speke.

Distillers was also responsible for

the manufacture of the drug Thalidomide in the United Kingdom.

In 1958, Chemie Grünenthal reached an agreement with the William S. Merrell Company in Cincinnati, Ohio (later Richardson-Merrell, now part of Sanofi), to market and distribute thalidomide throughout the US.

In 1964, Israeli physician Jacob Sheskin administered thalidomide to a patient critically ill with leprosy at Hadassah University in Jerusalem.

The Hadassah organization was established in 1912 in New York City to provide health care in Ottoman-ruled Jerusalem.

At a meeting at Temple Emanu-El in New York City on February 24, 1912, Henrietta Szold together with other Zionist women, proposed to the Daughters of Zion study circle that they expand their purpose and embrace proactive work to help meet the health needs of Palestine's people.

Henrietta Szold never married and never had children of her own. While she was in her forties, she had an unrequited relationship with Talmudic scholar Rabbi Louis Ginzberg.

In 1913, Louis Marshall requested that Ginzberg refute the Beilis blood libelcharge in Kyiv.

In 1920, Louis Marshall also attempted to stop a newspaper owned by Henry Ford, The Dearborn Independent, from spreading anti-Semitic propaganda. Marshall and Samuel Untermyer entered the fight against the alleged libelous attacks featured in the paper, which led to a 1927

lawsuit against the automaker in federal court.

In 1933, Governor Herbert H. Lehman designated Irving Untermyer as a justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department, where he served alongside Justices that included Roy Cohn’s father

Albert until Untermyer's retirement in August 1945.

In 1979, Roy Cohn became a member of the Western Goals Foundation; he served on the board of directors with Edward Teller.

Teller had a heart attack in 1979, and blamed it on Jane Fonda, who had starred in The China Syndrome,

which depicted a fictional reactor accident and was released less than two weeks before the Three Mile Island accident.

Western Goals Foundation was founded in 1979 by Major General John K. Singlaub, the publisher and spy John H. Rees, and Congressman Larry McDonald. It went

defunct in 1986 when the Tower Commission revealed it had been part of Oliver North's Iran–Contra funding network.

The Tower Commission, composed of former Senator John Tower of Texas, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.

John Tower became the liaison for Robert Maxwell, a British publishing mogul and super-agent for Mossad, to the White House and to US government operations.

Samuel Pisar was the longtime lawyer and confidant of Robert Maxwell. Pisar was possibly the last person to speak to

Maxwell before his splash landing death from his luxury yacht Lady Ghislaine in November 1991.

His stepson, Antony Blinken was appointed to President Joe Biden's cabinet as Secretary of State.