U.S. court sets $10 million bail for alleged Israeli drug kingpin

[Poll_Blind]

Emphasis is mine

U.S. court sets $10 million bail for alleged Israeli drug kingpin
By The Associated Press

A federal judge set a $10 million bail Tuesday for an alleged Israeli organized crime figure described by U.S. authorities as one of the world's biggest distributors of Ecstasy.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres set the bail amount for Zeev Rosenstein over the objections of federal prosecutors, who said they were concerned that Rosenstein had ready access to huge assets and could readily flee the United States.

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Rosenstein, 51, is accused in a 2004 grand jury indictment with conspiring to distribute more than 1 million Ecstasy pills in the United States between summer 1999 and November 2001. He has not yet entered a formal plea but his attorneys have said he will plead not guilty.

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Rosenstein was on the Drug Enforcement Administration's list of 44 top worldwide drug traffickers. He was arrested in Israel more than a year ago.

Rosenstein, who largely escaped prosecution for his alleged crimes in Israel for years, faces up to 20 years in prison on each of the two counts in his drug indictment. Rosenstein's Ecstasy network allegedly spanned four continents and used Latin American smugglers to bring the drug into the United States.

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[Tom Joad]

1. Another reason to be drug-free.

[cantstandbush]

2. I was roundly attacked here and had posts removed when I posted about

the Israeli connection to organized crime and ecstasy. If you folks only knew the real truth behind much of the drug smuggling into this country.

[number6]

3. now thats interesting

nt ....

[mike_c]

4. doesn't the AP have proof readers or copy editors anymore...?

Just what is an "alleged Israeli?" Don't they know for sure where he's from?

[saigon68]

5. He's from Mars

The city of Gyxcnrte, on the planet Mars

[Betsy Ross]

6. Proof reader went to the G. W. * school of editing. N/T