Two New York Jewish charities rocked by scandal in recent months have something in common: They were both audited by the accounting firm Loeb & Troper. For years, this small, Manhattan-based firm audited the financial reports of FEGS, which announced in January it would close after uncovering a previously undetected $19 million deficit. The firm…
Two employees of the insurance company that bilked a New York Jewish anti-poverty charity in a $9 million fraud scheme were sentenced to probation on Friday, the office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. Solomon Ross and William Lieber, former employees of Long Island insurance broker Century Coverage Corporation, each admitted to…
Does the New York Jewish federation’s network of charities have a corruption problem? New York’s Jewish not-for-profits are falling like dominoes. Scandals have rocked some of the most prominent agencies in UJA-Federation of New York’s network in recent weeks, with one agency announcing in February that it would shut down, another losing its executive director…
(JTA) — “You know, it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob, what is the matter with them?” That was President Richard Nixon speaking to his top aide, H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, during a recorded White House…
The collapse of one of the largest Jewish charities in the United States is raising concerns about the future of the Jewish social service ecosystem. The massive New York-based social service charity known as FEGS said on January 30 that it would shut down, just seven weeks after it revealed a stunning, previously undetected $19.4…
The head of a Jewish-backed New York legal aid charity has reportedly resigned amid a federal investigation into his alleged “accounting irregularities.” Yisroel Schulman, president and attorney-in-charge of the New York Legal Assistance Group, submitted his resignation to the charity’s board on February 3, the New York Law Journal reported today. Schulman co-founded the group,…
The massive Jewish social service agency FEGS is shutting down, Crain’s New York Business reported on Friday. The Forward reported December 12 that the agency had discovered it lost $19.4 million in its last fiscal year. FEGS had an annual budget of $252 million, and claimed to aid over a hundred thousand New Yorkers per…
One September night in 1997, Judy Rapfogel threw a party. Press reports had just declared her the winner in a tight Democratic primary race to represent Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the New York City Council, effectively making the seat hers in the heavily Democratic town. Her boss, the new State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver,…
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