{"id":253181,"date":"2023-05-19T12:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paju.org\/irwin-cotler-as-a-false-humanitarian-cotler-viciously-targets-critics-of-israeli-apartheid-allegedly-had-connections-to-the-mafia-part-three\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:39:39","slug":"irwin-cotler-as-a-false-humanitarian-cotler-viciously-targets-critics-of-israeli-apartheid-allegedly-had-connections-to-the-mafia-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paju.org\/fr\/irwin-cotler-as-a-false-humanitarian-cotler-viciously-targets-critics-of-israeli-apartheid-allegedly-had-connections-to-the-mafia-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Irwin Cotler as a False Humanitarian: Cotler viciously targets critics of Israeli apartheid & allegedly had connections to the mafia: Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Irwin Cotler as a False Humanitarian: Cotler viciously targets critics of Israeli apartheid & allegedly had connections to the mafia: Part Three<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was first published in The Canada Files<\/a> on December 29, 2020<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written By<\/em> <\/em>Bruce Katz<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underworld Connections?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, an investigative report in the French-language newspaper Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/em><\/a> entitled \u201cLe ministre de la justice avait des associ\u00e9s qui pr\u00eataient \u00e0 la mafia<\/em>\u201d (\u201cThe Minister of Justice had associates who lent money to the Mafia\u201d), the two journalists breaking the story wrote that \u201cTwo business partners of former minister Irwin Cotler financed the godfather’s straw man<\/em>,\u201d the godfather being Vito Rizzuto. The Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/em> report states that \u201cPolice even wiretapped the offices of these Irwin Cotler associates from January 2004, over their alleged financial ties to a Rizzuto fund manager. One of them was also caught<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cotler told police that he was unaware of the dealings of the two men under police surveillance named as Hyman Bloom and Richard Dubrovsky. Cotler said that \u201che never had any information about possible financial links between his associates and the Rizzutos, or other members of organized crime.\u201d Cotler claimed his role in the companies was passive even though he was vice president of Faybess, which he co-founded with Dubrovsky, for part of the period in question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/em> investigative report informs us that in 1995, \u201cIrwin Cotler founded the Faybess Investment Company with the Dubrovnik family. He is still a significant shareholder of the company today and served as its vice-president until May 2004, five months after being appointed Minister of Justice, according to the Registry of Companies.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2000 to 2004, Bloom and Dubrovsky were involved in a series of financial transactions with Jonathan Myette, Vito Rizzuto’s real estate straw man but, according to the Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/em> report, there was no evidence that they knew of  Myette’s connection to the Mafia. The names of Dubrovsky and Bloom came up at the Charbonneau inquiry into corruption in Quebec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yves Engler informs us of Cotler\u2019s ties to American billionaire, Leslie Wexner<\/a>. Jeffrey Epstein also had close ties to Wexner. As Yves Engler explains<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n