A Lakewood charity, indicted in March on theft charges involving hundreds of thousands of tax dollars, raised millions of dollars from the public while failing to follow the state law that governs fundraising efforts.
The Supreme Court on Sunday accepted the appeal filed of former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger against the prison sentence he received for bribery and ruled that he would receive three and a half years in prison, as agreed upon in the original plea bargain.
A Lakewood rabbi who runs a school for children with developmental disabilities pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of stealing public funds for personal use.
The government’s key witness in multiple corruption probes was a part-time “loan shark” who made money doling out predatory loans, court documents alleged on Tuesday.
The High Court has ruled that the senior editors of the Hapeles newspaper, Nati Grossman and Shmuel Elyashiv, should be returned to custody, after they were released to house arrest by the District Court.
The Israeli-American Michael Ron David Kadar suspected of making threatening phone calls to Jewish community centers in the United States was charged on Monday in Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court with various crimes, including trying to extort a United States senator.
One day last summer, state investigators descended upon the 13-acre campus in Lakewood of the School for Children with Hidden Intelligence, a private entity that takes in about $1.8 million a month from the coffers of public schools to educate special needs youngsters.
Jerusalem – Israel’s Justice Ministry reportedly has denied a U.S. Justice Department request to extradite the Israeli-American teen charged with making threats against Jewish community centers throughout the United States.
The Israeli arrested in March on suspicion of making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the world and even causing a forced emergency landing in JFK airport, is now also suspected of threatening and extorting a Republican member of the US senate, going so far as to send drugs to his home…
Holon Chief Rabbi Avraham Yosef was convicted of two counts of breach of trust by the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court Sunday.