Dwek filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and left a mess for his creditors, banks and investors.

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Dwek, a real estate developer with nearly 400 properties, was trying to pay back some loans, but the feds later charged him with bank fraud.

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Solomon Dwek, a 36-year-old real estate developer, has been identified as the main cooperating witness in the massive government corruption probe announced today in Newark, N.

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The sweeping chain of events started in April 2006, when Dwek pulled up to a drive-through window at his longtime bank, a PNC Bank branch in Eatontown, N.

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In 2009 Solomon Dwek, who had been indicted for bank fraud, was the main cooperating witness in a sting that resulted in 44 arrests, including prominent politicians and mayors in New Jersey.

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Dwek had been charged with bank fraud by the feds back in 2006, which should have given Cammarano and Schaffer reason to wonder if Dwek was wearing a wire as part of a deal with the government.

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In total, 44 people wound up in handcuffs, including rabbis from New Jersey and Brooklyn as Dwek broke up cases on separate fronts for the feds, including one scheme that involved the trafficking of body parts in a network that went all the way to Israel.

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