Shimon Haber is a Brooklyn-based strategic real estate investor, developer, and broker operating in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. He was convicted as a central figure and co-conspirator in the 2009 'Operation Bid Rig III' money laundering investigation, serving as the primary recruiter, high-level relationship broker, and advisor in the criminal enterprise. Unlike co-conspirators who handled day-to-day laundering, Haber navigated the 'trust network' of the Orthodox Jewish community to facilitate secular political corruption, including advising on money 'cleaning' mechanics—such as using the term 'washing machine' for laundering, overseas 'converters' via Swiss banking channels, and packaging illicit proceeds from bank fraud and counterfeit goods into political donations through religious gemachs like Gmach Shefa Chaim, conspiring to use the gemach for money laundering. He introduced the FBI's cooperating witness Solomon Dwek to the network's financial architects, Itzhak Friedlander and Moshe Altman, initiating the Union City-based 'pay-to-play' conspiracy. Haber entered a guilty plea in January 2010 and cooperated with federal authorities following the July 2009 arrests, contributing to the prosecution of his senior business partners.