Akiva Aryeh Weiss, commonly known as Arye Weiss, is a Brooklyn-based individual who operated an unlicensed money transmitting business, or 'cash house,' in Brooklyn from June 2007 to July 2009. He was implicated in the federal Operation Bid Rig III investigation, facilitating the laundering of illicit funds—including proceeds from bank fraud, trafficking in counterfeit goods, and bankruptcy fraud—for a government cooperating witness, Solomon Dwek, and Rabbi Eliahu Ben Haim of Long Branch, New Jersey. Weiss collaborated with co-conspirators Yeshaye Ehrental and Schmuel Cohen to move hundreds of thousands of dollars in untraceable cash, charging a fee of approximately 1.5 percent for transactions that made cash available in Israel. He personally admitted to transferring between $200,000 and $400,000 in cash across multiple transactions, including drop-offs ranging from $50,000 to nearly $100,000. Arrested in the July 2009 sting, Weiss pleaded guilty in April 2010 and was sentenced to five years of probation with a special condition of residing in a mental health facility.