NEW BRUNSWICK The attorney for a rabbi charged with stealing $630,000 in public tuition funds through a Lakewood special-needs school says the evidence against Osher Eisemann was obtained from raids through overly broad search warrants and should be thrown out.
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.
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.
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.
The director of a prominent Lakewood school for children with special needs, charged in a May indictment with stealing more than $630,000 in public money, will appear before a judge next week.
TRENTON, NJ — The founder of a Lakewood school for children with special needs has been indicted on charges he misappropriated more than $630,000 in public tuition funds, using a purported fundraising foundation for the school in his alleged schemes to steal and launder money, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced.