-Caveat Lector- Assalamu'alaikum Two Rabbis Sentenced Over Holocaust Funds http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010810/od/rabbis_dc_1.html NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New York rabbis who admitted pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds earmarked for elderly Holocaust survivors were sentenced Thursday to 33 months in prison apiece. Rabbi Jacob Bronner, who served as an unpaid adviser on Jewish issues to former New York Mayor Ed Koch, and Rabbi Efroim Stein, who controlled Project Social Care, a nonprofit group designed to aid elderly Holocaust survivors, were also ordered to pay $162,500 each in restitution at their sentencing in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. The two misused funds from a $2.5 million grant Project Social Care received in 1995 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, prosecutors said. According to prosecutors, the two rabbis paid for nonexistent services from companies that paid them kickbacks and funneled money to an outside group that also kicked back cash to businesses the pair controlled. "I did a very stupid thing," Bronner said in court. "I literally ruined Project Social Care. I regret this more than anything else." U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, citing the "wanton fraud and venality" of the robbery of Holocaust victims by rabbis, said he had hesitated to approve the plea bargain reached between prosecutors and defense attorneys. But he said a series of letters of support written by local community leaders and friends and families of the two rabbis persuaded him to do so. ================================================================================ ININ List Archives Found Here: http://www.egroups.com/messages/inin ================================================================================ TO SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: "subscribe inin-net" TO UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type in: "unsubscribe inin-net" ================================================================================ ISLAMIC NEWS AND INFORMATION NETWORK: HTTP://WWW.ININ.NET VISIT: HTTP://WWW.MEDIAMONITORS.NET WE AFFIRM THAT INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE!!!! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
