I wonder if they can use RICO against the leaders of that community who encourage and help members defraud the govt.?

P.S.= Not a anti-semite

I only found out yesterday that Israel was created in 1948.

There was a thread about "Travellers" within the Irish community who were engaging in this kind of practice..and many of the Irish members here weighed in and called them out. Members of the Jewish community are rightfully calling out those elements of the Orthodox groups who engage in this kind of thievery.

If what I'm reading is accurate...the IRS and other agencies may get involved before it's all over.



http://forward.com/news/375963/how-benefits-fraud-scam-spread-so-widely-in-orthodox-town/

The numbers in the public benefits fraud scam in the Orthodox enclave of Lakewood, New Jersey, are stunning.

Fourteen arrests so far, and counting. More than $2 million in fraudulently obtained government funds. Hundreds of others scrambling to avoid prosecution for similar crimes.

Law enforcement sources say that the schemes are both “widespread” and some of the “most sophisticated financial fraud” cases authorities have seen in recent years, according to the Asbury Park Press.

But it’s still unclear how the alleged scam artists were tied together, if at all.


Officials say all the alleged fraudsters are also suspected of using a local business to transfer money. The owner of that store recently pleaded guilty to transmitting cash without a license.

So how was the scheme so successful for so long, and how did it involve so many people in such a relatively small town?

The Asbury Park Press investigation, based on publicly available information on four of the 14 suspects, revealed a web of “hidden income, fake applications and phony company owners” that were the central cogs in the fraud. Defense lawyers deny the charges.

In the case of Shimi and Yocheved Nussbaum, they set up limited liability companies — an otherwise legitimate enterprise meant to hide their ownership — with relatives as straw owners, funneling personal income into corporate accounts.

Starting in 2006, “relatives of the Nussbaums were registered as agents and sole members of a clothing company, daycare, real estate company and nonprofit corporation ‘with a listed purpose of providing therapeutic services to children with autism,’” according to the federal complaint against the couple. Meanwhile, the couple controlled the company’s finances.

As they raked in profits from those companies, they allegedly used income from the three companies and the not-for-profit for personal expenses, including attorney fees, school tuition for their children, life insurance policies and credit card bills. Meanwhile, they were drastically underreporting their income; “in 2011 and 2012, Yocheved Nussbaum reported only $1,100 in monthly income from the daycare company when applying for public assistance,” according to the APP.

Authorities say the Nussbaums underreported their income by $100,000 per year in some cases.

In New Jersey, a family of four making less than $44,94 would most likely be eligible for food stamps, and less than $75,468 would qualify a family of eight. The Nussbaums’ income was $265,492 in 2011, $198,535 in 2012 and $1.8 million in 2013. In total, they illegally collected $178,762 in government assistance.

Rachel and Mordechai Sorotzkin’s alleged scheme was much simpler. They reported their combined income as around $3,000 per month in 2011, and then $3,800 in 2012. Meanwhile, Rachel Sorotzkin allegedly neglected to report over $45,000 in profits from her family’s limited liability company, along with “two other payments $1.5 million she received in 2013,” the paper said.

As for the 10 other suspects currently being held on similar allegations, the specifics of their fraud remain unclear.

One thing is for sure: Many people in Lakewood were aware of the scams, if not of the specifics. In 2015, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office met with Lakewood residents to discourage government assistance fraud.

Flyers warning about the practice were also posted at a local synagogue.

“Those who choose to ignore those warnings by seeking to illegally profit on the backs of taxpayers will pay the punitive price of their actions,” Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato said in a statement at the time.

Since news of the arrests spread, there have been ominous signs that even more people could be involved. Hundreds of people have called local officials, inquiring if there would be amnesty for those who admit lying about their incomes, and the APP reported that Ocean County authorities have been swamped with calls from public assistance beneficiaries seeking to stop receiving benefits.

Read more: http://forward.com/news/375963/how-benefits-fraud-scam-spread-so-widely-in-orthodox-town/

http://www.nj.com/ocean/index.ssf/2017/07/12_more_lakewood_residents_charged_in_massive_welf.html



LAKEWOOD -- Twelve more Lakewood residents were charged Thursday as the massive sweep targeting welfare fraud totaling millions of dollars continues to widen, officials said.

The defendants are all charged with theft by deception and are accused of misrepresenting income to receive benefits from government programs such as Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (better known as food stamps), and a Home Energy Assistance Program that helps low-income families pay the cost to heat their homes.


Since Monday morning, 14 people have been arrested in a joint state-federal investigation

As with the previous 14 people arrested, the dozen charged on Thursday are couples. However, they were not arrested by authorities in a series of raids. Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, said the residents were hand-delivered the complaint summonses early Thursday morning with letters on how to turn themselves into authorities. The 12 people handed summonses must report no later than Tuesday , Della Fave said.

A statement from Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato and state Comptroller Philip James Degnan identified those charged as:

Eliezer, 33, and Elkie, 31, Sorotzkin are accused of wrongfully collecting approximately $74,960 in Medicaid benefits from January 2011 and December 2013.
Samuel, 45, and Esther, 44, Serhofer are accused of illegally obtaining $72,685 in Medicaid benefits between January 2009 and December 2013.
Yisroel, 37, and Rachel, 34, Merkin allegedly illegally collected approximately $70,557 in Medicaid, SNAP and HEAP benefits between January 2011 and December 2014.
Jerome Menchel, 33, and Mottel Friedman, 30, are accused of collecting $63,839 in Medicaid and SNAP benefits between January 2011 and July 2014.
Tzvi, 35, and Estee, 34, Braun allegedly collected $62,746 in illegal benefits from Medicaid, HEAP and Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund (CICRF) between January 2009 and December 2013.
Moseh, 30, and Nechama, 27, Hirschmann are accused of wrongfully collecting $53,418 in Medicaid and SNAP benefits from January 2011 and December 2015.

The recent charges bring the total amount of illegally obtained benefits to well over $2 million. Twenty-six Lakewood residents have been charged since June 26 in the joint federal, state and county crackdown.

Alex Napoliello may be reached at anapoliello@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @alexnapoNJ. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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Visiting day in Otisville FCI was an eye opener for me. 80 hacidic men would receive their visitors 5 days a week. Some of them would have 8,9 - 11 kids. They explained to me how their marriages weren't legal and the mothers could claim single parent status as a result... It's no secret among them. They have no shame about it either. Justifying it by claiming if they didn't take it, all the schvartzas would.

Favorite radio station of ne-er do wells is WATB



W(hat) A(bout) T(he) B(lacks)

shifts the attention off their shortcomings to point out the visible problems in the Black community.




How did Tony say it?

You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie.

Just saw an article about welfare in Jersey. The cities with the most amount of children on welfare. People from Jersey(myself included) would guess the top of the list is Newark,Trenton,Paterson and Camden because those are the four places with the high poverty and crime.



Newark and Lakewood top the list.

All 'this'^^^ has been public info. and known for ages.
But media (society even)isn't interested in the face of welfare recipients (benefits in UK) being a white Jewish face.
Especially 'welfare cheats". Media prefers a Nigerian face or a fat white northerner.