To Guest Wythe Paradise,

             Apparently Mr. Lezer Kestenbaum has 2 silent partners, Smith & Wesson. There has long been a history or organized crime involvement with the kosher meat industry. You will remember that when the late Rabbi Shulem Rubin was the Commissioner of kosher enforcement for New York State, he was threatened and even physicaly beaten up for taking on Hebrew National when he discovered improprieties with their kashrus. Apparently when they had to "answer
to a higher authority" it was to the godfather rather than to our father in heaven. There have also recently been rumors that Moshe Finkel may have been involved with some partners as well. Their names ended in a vowel and it was not Shapiro.

                                             SOL ZELLER