New York State’s attorney general said his office may broaden its investigation of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. Eric Schneiderman told The New York Jewish Week that his office is following up on leads provided by the group’s former CEO, William Rapfogel, who was among the top officials of the nonprofit agency convicted for…
More than a year after the arrest of its executive director, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is struggling to regain its footing. Still reeling from the guilty plea of its former CEO and executive director, William Rapfogel, on charges that he stole from the organization, and similar guilty pleas from two other former top…
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is considering hiring Rabbi Moshe Wiener, head of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, to replace departing CEO David Frankel, the Forward has learned. Frankel’s surprise departure, which the Forward first reported August 20, comes just a year after the former Wall Street executive replaced Met Council…
The scandal-damaged Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is losing yet another CEO. David Frankel, hired to lead the organization in August 2013 following the arrest of predecessor William Rapfogel, will leave the Met Council before the end of the year, the Forward has learned. The former commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance,…
William Rapfogel, the former chief of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme. Rapfogel, the longtime executive director and CEO of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, also was ordered to pay $3 million in restitution, according to…
The former chief financial officer of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty was sentenced to four months in prison for his role in a $9 million kickback scheme. The sentence of Herbert Friedman, 80, was announced Tuesday in a news release from the New York State attorney general’s office. Friedman had pleaded guilty last…
Herbert Friedman, the former chief financial officer of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, pleaded guilty today to grand larceny and conspiracy charges for his role in the $9 million kickback scheme that has rocked the organization since last August. Friedman, 80, admitted to illegally receiving around $250,000 from the scheme between the early 1990s…
In court in April, William Rapfogel wore a huge black yarmulke and a grim expression as he admitted to stealing more than $1 million from the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, the major New York charity he ran for two decades. Rapfogel’s future is clear: The 59-year-old, once among New York’s most powerful political figures,…
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