Two Brooklyn yeshiva directors stand accused of defrauding a national school lunch program of millions by claiming they’d provided meals to students that never got served, prosecutors announced Thursday. Read more
WOODRIDGE – Yermia “Jeremy” Solomon, an officer with the Monticello Police Department, has been charged with raping a minor, according to state police. Read more
Ponzi scheme alert of Mendel Brach, Moshe Roth & Moshe Oknm Read more
At first glance it seems like one nondescript building among scores in Williamsburg, a three-story brown-brick property housing a small retail store and a couple of apartments above. Read more
A Williamsburg charity is suing the city for not getting a tax break in what insiders say is mayoral payback for its rabbi’s role in the circumcision controversy. Read more
A man set fire to several religious texts inside a bus belonging to a Jewish school in Brooklyn, authorities said. Read more
Leaders at a Brooklyn synagogue say a former congregant is trying to force his way into a leadership role and accuses him of inappropriate conduct with teenage boys. Read more
WILLIAMSBURG — The Brooklyn developer who laid the groundwork for an explosion of residential properties along the Williamsburg waterfront ran a get-richer-quick real estate scheme for five years, conning a small group of Israeli investors out of more than $20 million, according to a Brooklyn federal lawsuit. Read more
The New York City Health Department said it cannot complete an investigation into who it says infected four infants with herpes through a Jewish circumcision rite because the boys’ families will not identify the mohels. Read more
