The sprawling financial fraud case centered around former Chabad of Poway rabbi Yisroel Goldstein has reeled in a second San Diego-area rabbi. The Justice Department announced Wednesday that the founder of Chabad of University of California at San Diego, Yehuda Hadjadj, pleaded guilty to conspiring with Goldstein to defraud a local company’s donation matching program….
A Jewish college in Michigan enrolled thousands of fictitious and actual Israeli students in a fake study abroad program as part of a scheme to pocket federal financial aid money, court documents unsealed Tuesday claim. The documents, which include a complaint filed by a former employee and whistleblower, describe in detail how the Michigan Jewish…
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the Orthodox-owned B&H Photo for failing to pay more than $7 million in taxes, according to a complaint filed today in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The attorney general’s office alleges the photo and electronics retailer intentionally miscalculated the amount it was supposed…
(JTA) — An executive whose firm was an integral part of Israel’s multibillion-dollar binary options industry, which has scammed millions around the world over the past decade, was convicted of wire fraud by a U.S. court on Tuesday. Lee Elbaz, the CEO of Yukom Communications, who was arrested by the FBI in 2017, was found…
(Haaretz) The modest apartment in one of the side streets of Bnei Brak, where Shimon Hayut grew up, is light-years away from the private jets, racing cars and luxury hotels in which he has been spending his time in recent years. Hayut, 28, lived the hedonistic life of a millionaire. Not any old millionaire, but…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The fraud case against Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is going to criminal arbitration. The trial, which is scheduled to open in January, will continue to move forward in parallel, at the District Attorney’s request, according to the Israeli public broadcaster Kan. A successful arbitration will require Netanyahu to…
This is a developing story. Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former longtime personal attorney, has pleaded guilty to eight counts in federal court. Cohen pled guilty to evading personal income taxes, making an unlawful corporate campaign contribution, making a false statement to a financial institution and making an excessive campaign contribution in October 2016, the Washington…
Federal authorities investigating whether President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen committed tax fraud are focusing on more than $20 million in loans collected by taxi businesses that he and his family own, the New York Times reported. The bank loans came from Sterling National Bank and the Melrose Credit Union, two New York financial…
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