Two employees of the insurance company that bilked a New York Jewish anti-poverty charity in a $9 million fraud scheme were sentenced to probation on Friday, the office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. Solomon Ross and William Lieber, former employees of Long Island insurance broker Century Coverage Corporation, each admitted to…
One September night in 1997, Judy Rapfogel threw a party. Press reports had just declared her the winner in a tight Democratic primary race to represent Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the New York City Council, effectively making the seat hers in the heavily Democratic town. Her boss, the new State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver,…
New York State Assemby Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is facing corruption charges, will resign from his position. Silver, 70, was arrested Jan. 22 for allegedly receiving payments from a law firm, Goldberg & Iryami, without properly disclosing them. The arrest stems from an anti-corruption investigation launched by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013. Silver…
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver agreed on Sunday to relinquish his duties on a temporary basis as he fights federal corruption charges, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the matter. Silver’s decision came amid mounting pressure from his fellow Democrats in the Assembly, who worried that the criminal charges would impair…
Under increasing strain following the corruption scandal that brought down its former leader, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty will seek to merge or partner with other not-for-profit agencies to preserve its services, the Forward has learned. The organization said in a statement to the Forward that it was seeking partners, possibly to share administrative…
New York State’s most powerful Jewish powerbroker has fallen. The city awoke Thursday morning to a political world turned inside out. Sheldon Silver, among the two or three most powerful men in state politics since 1994, surrendered to FBI agents in the early hours of the morning at a federal building in Foley Square, just…
New York State’s attorney general said his office may broaden its investigation of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. Eric Schneiderman told The New York Jewish Week that his office is following up on leads provided by the group’s former CEO, William Rapfogel, who was among the top officials of the nonprofit agency convicted for…
The scandal-damaged Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is losing yet another CEO. David Frankel, hired to lead the organization in August 2013 following the arrest of predecessor William Rapfogel, will leave the Met Council before the end of the year, the Forward has learned. The former commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance,…
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