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FBI Arrests 7 Over $14 Million Rockland Yeshiva Tech Fraud Scheme
The indictments connect to the massive 2016 raid of Rockland businesses and schools.
By Lanning Taliaferro, Patch Staff | Aug 29, 2018
Seven Rockland residents were arrested Wednesday morning, accused of a multi-year scheme to defraud a federal program called "E-rate," prosecutors said. Basically, they are accused of billing for equipment and services that were not actually provided to Jewish religious schools in Rockland County and elsewhere, and using the money for themselves.
Arrested were Simon Goldbrener, Ben Klein, Peretz Klein, Susan Klein, Aron Melber, Moshe Schwartz and Sholem Steinberg, who were vendors, consultants and yeshiva school officials involved in the alleged fraud.
Between 2009 and 2016, the schemers applied for $35 million in E-rate funding and received $14 million, prosecutors alleged.
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