Is there anything else new under the sun? Isn't it nice these bastards ageed to pay back $162,000 and serve 33 months in jail? Are they going to confiscate their properties - their synogoge as they try to steal away the little Christian Church in Indianapolis???? If they can take a Christian Church and sell it for non payment of so called "income tax" on tax exempt property - why not these two and all their possessions? How much else have these thieves taken ...... And Justice for All? NYPOST.COM RABBIS: WE LOOTED HOLOCAUST CHARITY Saturday,February 10,2001 By DAVID SEIFMAN and DAN MANGAN UNHOLY ACT: Hasidic rabbi Efroim Stein leaves Brooklyn federal court yesterday after pleading guilty to swindling the U.S. government through a charity for Holocaust victims. - Mary Altaffer Two Brooklyn rabbis - including an adviser to former Mayor Ed Koch - yesterday pleaded guilty to swindling the federal government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for Holocaust survivors. Rabbis Jacob Bronner, 51, and Efroim Stein, 55, each agreed to serve 33 months in prison and repay up to $162,500 in restitution. [note only repay $162,500 - they going to add penalties and interest as they did the little church in Indianapolis where US Marshall was to be sent in to Wacoize this little church....in holocaust........Saba] The Hasidic rabbis - who controlled the not-for-profit charity Project Social Care - remain free on $500,000 bond until their June 8 sentencing. They read details of their crimes in Brooklyn federal court in front of U.S. Magistrate Viktor Pohorelsky, but would not comment afterward. Bronner served for 12 years as unpaid adviser on Jewish affairs to Koch, who appointed him to the city's Human Rights Commission. "I only have nice things to say about him," Koch said yesterday. Brooklyn-based Project Social Care was established in 1994 to provide Holocaust survivors and immigrants with medical, job training, and other services. In 1995, the organization applied for and received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development department. The application detailed a program "of support and counseling tailored to meet the needs of elderly Holocaust survivors," helping them "deal directly with the Holocaust experience." The court papers say Bronner and Stein conspired to misspend hundreds of thousands of dollars of the grant in three ways from 1995 to 1996: * Project Social Care allegedly paid companies for non-existent goods and services, with the bulk of that money then kicked back to the rabbis. * Funds were paid to an institute and several of Stein's relatives for nonexistent training; most of the institute-earmarked funds then went to a Stein-controlled synagogue. [We need to sue to take this synagogue away and then we have memoral to WWII veterans and descendents who were virtually forced into a war and a costly war to protect whom from what......now how man died in that war, just 6 million - what happened to the other 50 million dead bodies who died in that War....Saba] * Project Social Care paid the Council of Jewish Organizations of Borough Park (COJO) in a subcontracting deal that required the council to kick back money to businesses controlled by Bronner and Stein. Those included United Housing & Community Services, B&B Furniture Company, and CCI Community Consultants. COJO officials were prosecuted in Brooklyn federal court in the late 1990s on charges of swindling the federal government out of funds. Several were convicted. City records show Bronner signed a letter of intent with lobbyist Suri Kasirer on Dec. 29, 1998 to try to win city contracts. But the $3,000-a-month deal apparently was never consummated, since Kasirer reported receiving no payments and said she conducted no lobbying. Kasirer, who is married to Bruce Teitelbaum, Mayor Giuliani's former chief of staff, couldn't be reached last night. -30- Well Hilliary Clinton fits in nice with this bunch; might add, seems no comments from holocaust victims - so if they touch that little Church in Indianapolis better watch it - anything goes. Saba Print this story Back to Regional News Index | Home E-Mail This Story to a Friend Your Name Your E-Mail Address Your Friend's E-Mail NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings, Inc. NYPOST.COM, NYPOSTONLINE.COM, and NEWYORKPOST.COM are trademarks of NYP Holdings, Inc. Copyright 2001 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
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