Israeli businessman sentenced to 22 years for fraud
Jewish Journal
May 2, 2012
An Israeli businessman convicted of a $30 million investment fraud was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
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‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ pleads guilty in Torah fraud case
Jewish Journal
February 3, 2012
Rabbi Menachem Youlus, who was dubbed the “Jewish Indiana Jones” for his remarkable tales of rescuing Holocaust-era Torah scrolls, pleaded guilty to fraud.
Author charged in Jewish online dating service scam
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2011
American author Mitchell Gross was indicted for allegedly scamming women he met on an online Jewish dating service.
Iranian Jewish investor guilty of fraud
Jewish Journal
May 23, 2011
An Iranian Jewish real estate investor in Los Angeles was found guilty of fraud after he was accused of stealing $21 million from clients.
Rubashkin appeal seeks new trial
Jewish Journal
January 4, 2011
Lawyers for convicted former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin have appealed a judge\’s decision denying their bid for a new trial. In a brief filed Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Mo., lawyers for Rubashkin made four arguments on his behalf, chief among them that the presiding judge in his case, Linda Reade, should have recused herself. Reade had rejected that argument in October. Rubashkin was convicted in 2009 on 86 counts of fraud related to his management of the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, and later was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison.
Fresh scrutiny of Claims Conference allocations
Jewish Journal
November 29, 2010
As the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany seeks to root out additional cases of fraud, the $42.5 million scandal that has rocked the organization has rekindled dissatisfaction with the group’s annual allocation of tens of millions of dollars.
$7 million fraud at Claims Conference raises questions
Jewish Journal
July 27, 2010
After discovering $7 million in fraudulent payments, the Claims Conference is facing questions about whether it will recover the money and how extensive the fraud actually was.
Madoff
Rob Eshman
December 18, 2008
I wish Jews believed in hell, because then I could take comfort that Bernard Madoff will go there.
Spielberg’s Wunderkinder Foundation joins list of Madoff victims
Tom Tugend
December 15, 2008
Steven Spielberg suffered some losses in the Bernard Madoff fraud scandal, though apparently nowhere near a rumored $300 million. However, the famed filmmaker\’s private Wunderkinder Foundation had some investments with Madoff, though Spielberg spokesman Marvin Levy said he was unable to detail the assets or losses of the foundation.
Madoff scandal rocks Jewish philanthropic world
Jewish Journal
December 15, 2008
At least two foundations have been forced to close because they had invested their funds with Madoff. The Robert I. Lappin Foundation in Salem, Mass., announced Dec. 12 that it would shut down after losing $8 million — all of its money. And the Chais Family Foundation, which gives out some $12.5 million each year to Jewish causes in Israel, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, announced its closing Dec. 14.
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