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Posted By richards on November 13, 2014

FBI Arrests Dozen in Brooklyn and Orange County By Josh Nathan-Kazis

Published November 13, 2014.

FBI agents reportedly arrested more than a dozen members of Hasidic communities in Williamsburg, Monsey, and Kiryas Joel this morning in connection with a mortgage fraud investigation.

An FBI spokesman confirmed the arrests to the Forward. Neither the FBI nor the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York has made an official statement on the arrests or the investigation.

Communal insiders told the Forward that those arrested were members of a single family connected to the Satmar Hasidic community. The family is said to have connections to both branches of the split Hasidic sect.

The U.S. Attorneys Office is slated to hold a press conference at noon in White Plains to announce the arrests. NBC reported that the suspects will be arraigned in federal court in White Plains on Thursday afternoon.

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Posted By richards on November 13, 2014

Satmar Family Busted in Mortgage and Welfare Scam By Josh Nathan-Kazis

Published November 13, 2014.

They told the banks they were millionaires, and the welfare agencies that they were broke.

Fifteen members of a prominent Satmar Hasidic family were charged in a sprawling fraud case in New York on Thursday, accused of lying to obtain $20 million in mortgages while also receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public benefits.

The indictment was accompanied by arrests of 13 members and associates the Rubin family in Williamsburg, Kiryas Joel, and Monsey.

As alleged, the scheme carried out by the Rubins and others ripped off banks, welfare programs, and taxpayers, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. It ranged from 2004 to 2014, from Brooklyn to Harlem to Orange County, and the individuals involved alternately played the parts of prince or pauper, depending on which scam was being perpetrated.

Family members allegedly provided false information to obtain $20 million in mortgages, then failed to pay most of them back. They used the money to pay credit card debts, their own home mortgage payments, and to fund other real estate projects.

At the same time, seven family members are accused of lying to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in Medicaid and food stamps.

According to the indictment, Yehuda Rubin, an organizer of the scheme, claimed an income of just $180 a month along with his wife Rachel Rubin to qualify for public benefits while at the same time claiming a joint income of $31,000 a month to qualify for a loan.

Another defendant, Samuel Rubin, claimed an income of $200 a week and $0 in financial resources while applying for public benefits. On a loan application, he claimed $350,000 in annual income and a $10 million net worth.

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Adult Ed With Rabbi Tully Harcsztark Topic: Judaism and Social Justice Part 4/4 Topic: Judaism and Social Justice Source Notes: http://bit.ly/1qFL0CD How Jewish a value is social justice? There is more to it than you might think.

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Dvoskin Vladimir- meeting guests at the wedding in Israel -1 Dvoskin Vladimir- meeting guests at the wedding in Israel -1 -tel.077-961-33-13,mobil.050-377-77-82. By: Vladimir Dvoskin

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Paul McCartney - Lady Madonna - HSBC Arena, Rio de Janeiro, 12 de novembro de 2014 Homenagem arrebatadora s mulheres que marcaram o sculo XX, com diversos cones no telo, de Anne Frank a Lady Di. By: Luiz Alberto Benevides

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Gazans turn to graffiti to fight for freedom Twenty-five year-old Naeem grew up in the Gaza Strip and discovered graffiti through social media. He and his friends learned the technique by watching videos posted online by Western artists...

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Jewish American Relationship with Israel at the Crossroads | The New School Jewish American Relationship with Israel at the Crossroads | The New School watch, Jewish American Relationship with Israel at the Crossroads | The New School videos Leading commentators on... By: Mona Mcbride

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Timelines - for Regathering Israel LIVE - Part 7 The sequence of events leading to the gathering of the House of Israel to the #39;North Country #39; from the USA and elsewhere. From there they will join with the House of Judah (Jews) and return...

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From left: Lisa Armony, director of the Rose Project and Community Outreach at the Jewish Federation and Family Services Orange County; Nancy Koppelman, a professor of American Studies at The Evergreen State College in Washington; Mohammed Wattad, a legal scholar and assistant professor at the Zefat Academic College School of Law in Israel; and Michael Aaron Rockland, a professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. Photo by Ryan Torok Nancy Koppelman, an American Studies professor at The Evergreen State College in Washington, is well aware of how passionate things can get on college campuses over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The late pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003, had been a student at Evergreen. Last week, at the American Studies Associations (ASA) annual meeting in Los Angeles, Koppelman addressed another aspect of this heightened tension that more directly involved her peers

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