{"id":335907,"date":"2026-09-02T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335907\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:08:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-new-york-developer-admits-bribing-newark-employees-and-selling-fake-dhs-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335907\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | New York Developer Admits Bribing Newark Employees And Selling Fake Dhs Ids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A New York real estate developer has pleaded guilty to bribing Newark city employees and selling fake Department of Homeland Security identification cards.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Menashe Davidovitz admitted to the schemes as part of a federal case, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Davidovitz bribed Newark employees in 2024 to obtain permits needed to sell or occupy his properties, court records show.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He also paid bribes to have violations at those properties ignored, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Court documents state Davidovitz separately made about $30,000 selling fraudulent DHS family member identification cards between 2021 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Davidovitz now faces up to 30 years and six months in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York real estate developer has pleaded guilty to bribing Newark city employees and selling fake Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-335907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}