Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Breaking News

Feds Probe Los Angeles Kosher Meat Scandal at Doheny’s Market

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating a Los Angeles kosher meat market for selling meat that was not properly certified as kosher.

Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats is being probed, the USDA confirmed to the Los Angeles Times. The department did not provide details because the investigation is continuing, the newspaper reported.

Mike Engelman, the store’s owner, was videotaped on March 12 directing his employees to unload boxes of meat from his car while Doheny’s kosher supervisor was absent. The footage led the Rabbinical Council of California to revoke the shop’s kosher certification on March 24, the day before Passover.

The market has reopened under new rabbinical supervision.

Eric Agaki, a private investigator whose undercover videos brought the scandal to light, told the Los Angeles Times that he met with USDA investigators on March 25 and provided them with his investigation materials.

Agaki, who is Jewish, told the newspaper that he initiated the investigation on his own and that he did not believe that other kosher meat distributors “set him up.”

A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse..

Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.

—  Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO

Join our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.