Can You Spot The South Blooming Grove LLC Involved With Money Laundering?

There are 231 LLCs in South Blooming Grove, and more than a few of them are behaving badly.

While working on the second part of my investigation into local slumlord, and founding member of the United Jewish Community of Blooming Grove, Moche Halpern, I came across something interesting.

So, today is a brief post, because I spent a good chunk of today sharing what I have with the appropriate parties.

We’ll be back tomorrow to finish out our week focusing on events in Washingtonville surrounding Mr. Halpern. Then, we’ll turn our attention next week to what’s going on in the Town and Village of Monroe.

Cool?

Blooming Realty (Moche Halpern, Lazar Schvimmer) appear to be participating in a real estate scheme.

Essentially, they’re taking out loans on property they own, then transferring the property to LLCs they control, only to then take out additional loans on that same property.

Is this just smart real estate strategy? Maybe.

There are a ton of loopholes when it comes to real estate, and a lot of those loopholes are legal. (Some of them probably shouldn’t be, but that’s a discussion for another time. Also, shout out to BiggerPockets, where I learned a lot about these very legal loopholes in the American real estate system.)

Sometimes though …

Smart real estate strategy can also look a lot like money laundering.

And since Mr. Halpern and Mr. Schvimmer are heavily involved with the Village of South Blooming Grove Board of Trustees and Village Planning Board in terms of business before those boards, this is something we should take a look at. If for no other reason than to make sure everything is on the up and up.

The last thing this village needs is yet another scandal involving its local government, you know?

So, below are some examples of what I found with Blooming Realty that raised some eyebrows:

443 Clove Road

On November 8th, 2021, 443 Clove LLC (Lazar Schvimmer) sold/transferred the property to himself for $0.

On December 17th, 2021, 443 Clove LLC received a loan of $700,000 from Grands Capital NY LLC 

On February 2nd, 2022,  Ark Mortgage issued a $720,000 loan on this property to Mr. Schvimmer.

January 12th, 2023, Lazar Schvimmer then sold/transferred the property back to his 443 Clove LLC for $0.

On December 20th, 2023, The LLC sold/transferred the property to ... Itself for $0

On January 5th, 2024, the LLC sold/transferred to Schvimmer's business partner, Moche Halpern.

On January 10th, 2024, the LLC receives a loan for $1.75M from united Wholesale Mortgage.

7 Kingsville Drive

On August 11th, 2022, Mr. Halpern purchased 7 Kingsville Drive for $10. 

On August 26th, 2022, Mr. Halpern took out a loan of $1.35M from BYRFP LLC 

On September 12th, 2022, 7 Kingsville Drive was sold/transferred by Mr. Halpern's 7 Kingsville LLC for $0.

On April 21st, 2023, Mr. Halpern took out a loan for $1.3M from NYRFP LLC.

On July 26th, 2023, Mr. Halpern refinanced with Ark Mortgage for $2.1M

279 Mountain Lodge Road

On 279 Mountain Lodge Road was sold/transferred to LMNY Holding LLC. This company uses the address of Mr. Halpern's business, Blooming Realty, of 9 Dallas Drive.

On November 30th, 2022, LMNY purchased this home for $342,000.

On February 21st, 2023, LMNY sold/transferred the home for $0 to Moche Halpern.

On March 7th, 2023, Ark Mortgage provided a loan to Moche Halpern for $375,000.

61 East Main Street

On May 15th, 2018, Four Guys LLC sold the property to 12 Dallas LLC for $655,000. 

12 Dallas LLC is operated by Leiser Schwimmer. His relationship to Lazar is not clear at this time, but 12 Dallas has done business with Blooming Realty before.

Mr. Leiser Schwimmer is a direct relative to Mendel Schwimmer, who is an investor in Keen Equities LLC. Keen Equities LLC's other big investor, Jacob Gold, is Mr. Joel Stern's employer. 

In 2018. 61 E. Main Street, represented by Mr. Moche Halpern submitted paperwork to Washingtonville to redevelop the property.

So 12 Dallas was, or is, connected to Mr. Halpern through this project.

12 Dallas LLC sold the property on February 4th, 2019 for $655,000 to Isaac M Schwartz.

Four months later, on June 5th, 2019, Mr. Schwartz sold the property to Mr. Halpern's associates at 61 East Main Street Assoc. LLC for $667,674

On May 20th, 2022 61 East Main Street Associates sold/transferred the property to Halpern for $0

On June 22nd, 2022, Mr. Halpern took out a loan of $640,500 from United Wholesale Mortgage.

231 LLCs

The following is a mostly complete list of LLCs in South Blooming Grove that currently own property within its borders. I added a few additional ones that had previously owned property and transferred it to one of the following. I also left out trusts, since unlike LLCs, it is MUCH harder to get information on them.

I’ve talked with the Department of State and asked for their assistance in pulling up Articles of Incorporation for all of the following. For some of them I have that paperwork, most I do not.

The goal, and maybe you can help with this, is to find out which of these LLCs are controlled by members of United Jewish Community of Blooming Grove (aka, the local hate group) and Blooming Realty at 9 Dallas Drive.

The founding members of the UJC are: Joel Stern, Isaac Ekstein, Moche Halpern, David Krauss, Mordchai Holtzer, Chaim Gluck, Aberaham Weiss, Shia Bittman, and Hershel Lowy.

And here is the list of LLCs I am currently working through …

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DYAS Group LLC

125 Prospect I LLC

BG 143 Prospect LLC

BG NY Development LLC

BG Holdings NY LLC

BG Holdings NY 3 LLC

Alden Gardens, LLC

211 Prospect LLC

Grove Gardens LLC

UCBP LLC

JCJ Homes, LLC

BHF, LLC

H&S Prospect 236 LLC

H&S Prospect 234 LLC

H&S Prospect 216 LLC

251 Prospect LLC

245 Prospect I LLC

Blooming Grove Holdings, LLC

Blooming Grove Property LLC

Allstate Properties LLC

1205 Route 208 LLC

Blooming Grove Land Devt LLC

Blooming Grove Gardens LLC

6 Tanager Rd LLC

335 Lake Shore Dr. Holding

337 Lake Shore Dr

SBG Lake View LLC

363 Lakeshore Dr LLC

379 Living LLC

North Equity NY LLC

Tzadik Katumor Inc.

312 Lake Shore LLC

303 Lake Shore LLC

5 Red Bird LLC

3 Red Bird Drive LLC

6-LONE, LLC

Manfield Developers LLC

8 Merriewold Lane, LLC

261 Prospect LLC

271 Prospect I LLC

273 Prospect LLC

Peddler Hill 1 LLC

Prospect Peddler LLC

38 Peddler Hill Road LLC

B.B.V.T. Inc.

25 Lark LLC

20 Shannon Lane LLC

J Grove Estates LLC

Mosayonu Grove LLC

1233, LLCGrove Woods LLC

052720226 Shannon Corp

1032 Rt 208 LLC

Keen Equities LLC (Jacob Gold, Mendel Schwimmer, Ziggy Brach, others.)

583 Clove Rd LLC

585 Clove LLC

Carpenter Drive LLC

JBC88-1 Realty, LLC

Grove Empire LLC

Strawberry Grove, LLC

RSBM NY LLC

332 Washington St LLC

17 Green LLC

Eleven Green Rd. Corp

IYH Estates LLC

Merriewold Ln LLC

Mangin Rd LLC

13 Mangin LLC

Rimeniv & Riff Holding Corp

Blooming Grove Holdings LLC

3 Virginia LLC

Pennsylvania Gardens LLC

LDL Estates LLC

49 Virginia LLC

Reb Mendel Stropkov LLC

Arlington Retreat, LLC

16 Arlington Dr LLC

5 Roanoke LLC

16 Virginia Realty LLC

14 Roanoke LLC

Penn Luxury Villas LLC

11 Pennsylvania Avenue LLC

Peddler Hill LLC

N and M Investments LLC

Witgrove LLC227

8 Kings St LLC

Bull Mine 16 LLC

Lemberg Apartment LLC

Tanager 2401 LLC

Tanager Holdings LLC

Morello Family Fortuna LLC

Fortuna Morello Family LLC

2101 Tanneger LLC

Rose@Home Realty LLC

2503 Tanager LLC

25 Tanager Inc.

1703 Tanager LLC

23 Tanager Apt. 2306 LLC

Charvoinu LLC

Silveria Holdings LLC

Lyons Realty LLC

Forest NY LLC

GB Realty Group LLC

46 Tanager Unit 4601 LLC

L P Realty Corp

RJL Properties, LLC

38 Tanager Rd Inc

Bel Management Group Inc.

3706 Tanager LLC

Lemberg Apartments LLC

RJL Properties LLC

Raywood Realty LLC

APTA Way Realty LLC

Yakov Family LLC

Bakerstown Estates Realty LLC

Amber Realty Group LLC

2604 Peddler LLC

Garen Blooming Grove, LLC

Goldhill LLCQ4 Solutions LLC

20 Lee Ave LLC

17 Lee Avenue Associates

American Tower Corp

Preferred Estates Relaty LLC (Joel Stern, Isaac Ekstein)

Stonegate Partners LLC

Duelk LLC

48 Duelk LLC

Greenland Services Agency

14 Duelk LLC

4 Duelk, LLC

Ridge Road Builders LLC

15 Duelk Avenue Inc.

2 Alamo LLC7 Duelk LLC

BSHT LLC63 Duelk LLC

55 Duelk LLC

Blooming Grove RE Holdings LLC

Dwellington LLC

Hersh Estate LLC

Manfeild Team LLC

GMF Real Services Inc.

12 San Antonio Circle LLC

9 San Antonio LLC

American Tel & Tel Co

104 Duelk LLC

All The Best A2Z LC

Pecos Holdings LLC

90 Duelk LLC

GPS 64 LLC

3 Glendale Rd LLC

2 Sears LLC

SYW Property Holdings LLC

Blooming Grove Hotel, LLC

577 Route 208 LLC

Route 208 Realty LLC

600 Route 208, LLC

32 Mountain LLC

Positive Developments LLC

DYAS Group V, LLC

23 Sleepy Hollow LLC

43 Mountain Road LLC

Dank Hashem LLC

Delano Grove Inc

Mountain Grove LLC

3 Glendale LLC

MB Walden LLC

H&S 100 Duelk LLC

Dorm Portfolio LLC

3 San Marcos LLC

9 Fort Worth Place LLC

Dallas Manor, LLC

5 Houston LLC

9 Houston LLC

21 Houston LLC

SW Witklag LLC

29 Dallas LLC

34 Fort Worth, LLC

52 Fort Worth SL LLC

26 Forth Worth Place LLC

SBG Business Holdings LLC

580 Route 208 LLC

208 Plaza LLC

Daulan Funding LLC

520 Rt 208 LLC3 Hawthorne Associates LLC

564 Clove LLC

457 Clove LLC

279 Mountain Lodge Road LLC

447 Clove Rd LLC

Bloomingrove Holdings LLC

A & M Development Corp

Clove NY LLC

429 Clove LLC

Tiger Drive Equity LLC

466 Clove Realty LLC

Clove Land LLC

MB Equities LLC

33 Round Hill LL

CSky City Properties LLC

Allsave Development LLC

Mountain Paradise LLC

Lake Ann Realty Corp

542 CLove LLC

Ashmar Development Co LLC

528 Clove LLC

Sullivan Matters LLC

New Sullivan Matters LLC

Pine Bush Capital LLC

Castle Creek at Galleria LLC

BG Group Holdings LLC

1 Hil-Mar, Inc.

29 Clove Brook Farm LLC

Blooming Grove Village LLC

Bragg's Clove, LLC

338 Clove LLC

L S Investment Corp

Wally-Bob Properties LLC

Clove Properties LLC

Clove Road Associates LTD

Salisbury Mills Hydro Elec LLC

TE 19 LLC

Cong. Kozova of Blooming Grov Inc

52 Fort Worth Place LLC

42 Worth LLC

BSD Realty Estates LLC

BSD Realty Trust

Mangin Equities LLCHonesty Above LLC

Mangin LLC

Mountainside Dev LLC.

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I’ll let you know what, if anything, I find with these research. More on Mr. Moche Halpern and his lawsuit against the Village of Washingtonville tomorrow.