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Sunday, January 05, 2014

Oy Vey! Where is Columbo when we need him?


There was a kidnapping and murder in New York City last week and the police are are having a difficult time finding the perps. Not because they have no suspects, but because they have far too many.
The millionaire Hasidic slumlord found burned and suffocated in a Nassau County dumpster — his body still smoldering from the waist down — had so many enemies that investigators say they almost don’t know where to start looking.

“Any number of people wanted to kill this guy,” one law-enforcement source said of Menachem “Max” Stark, 39, describing the father of eight as embroiled in several “shady” real-estate transactions and being up to his tuchus in debt.

“He owed a lot of people money,” said another source.

Stark was last seen alive on surveillance tape getting pulled into a van by two men in a dramatic, mid-blizzard abduction Thursday night outside his Rutledge Street offices. On Friday afternoon, his body was found in a trash bin at a Great Neck, LI, gas station.

Just hours before he was snatched, Stark had borrowed a half-million dollars from a business associate, money he never had the chance to withdraw and use, the source said...

“He was involved in shady business deals, was known to carry around a lot of money and had a sealed arrest for forcible touching” in his past, one law-enforcement source told The Post.

The alleged victim was a young teen girl, said the source, declining to give further details.

“He’s a Hasidic Jew from Williamsburg, and we think he’s a scammer,” another investigator said of Stark, who had defaulted on more than $30 million in real-estate loans in recent years and owed tens of thousands in penalties for building violations.

“He f–ked over a few people,” the source added.

Many on Stark’s enemies list took to social media Saturday — and not to mourn his passing.

“His slanted shtreimel on his head gives his crookedness away,” one commenter wrote on FailedMessiah.com, referring to the victim’s fur hat in a photo.

“Sentence his kidnappers to live in one of his buildings,” wrote another poster to the site.
What a pillar of the community. When one of his tenants is quoted as saying " I wanted to kill him myself,” joked Greg Hanlon" it will be a long investigation. No one would make jokes like that to Hercule Poirot.

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