NY Times The
longtime executive director of a prominent and politically connected
Jewish charity in New York was sentenced on Wednesday to three and a
half years in prison for stealing more than $1 million from the
organization.
The
director, William E. Rapfogel, who led the Metropolitan Council on
Jewish Poverty for two decades, faced a sentence of four to 12 years
when he appeared at State Supreme Court in Manhattan before Justice
Larry Stephen. But under the terms of a plea agreement he accepted
in April, Mr. Rapfogel paid the remaining balance of $3 million in
restitution in exchange for a shorter sentence of 3 ⅓ to 10 years. [...]
$3. Million for. 180 days less. Is that good value?
ReplyDeleteI used to see this man at Mincha. He started coming around after he was arrested. In the same minyan, the poor whom he had robbed would try to comfort him. I thought that that was very ironic. I was both saddened and very angry. The poor don't even have where to sleep and this guy helped themselves to their money. No winners here.
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