Benzion Zirkind, Charges For Money Laundering

SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 21 – Benzion Zirkind was arrested and released on money laundering charges on July 21 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

He put up a $100,000 bond secured by a property at 1349 President Street in Brooklyn owned by a friend of the family.

SDNY Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses held a proceeding late on July 21, and Inner City Press covered it.

Benzion Zirkind unlike most defendants in the SDNY had retained counsel, who announced that he had "four questions."    Judge Moses joked that those should be for the youngest child.

One of the questions was how the defendant should avoid speaking with co-defendants, if some of them are sealed. More, apparently, will be family members. 

 The President Street property is valued at over $2 million.

The next court date is July 29 before District Judge Denise L. Cote.

The case is US v. Zirkind, 19-cr-463