Seventeen Charged In Holocaust Fund Fraud Case
Seventeen Charged In Holocaust Fund Fraud
Case
Federal authorities announced on Tuesday that they were bringing charges against 17 people in connection with the raiding of two funds set up to provide financial relief for Holocaust survivors. The funds were reportedly stripped of about $42 million combined, and several people who were supposed to administer the funds were part of the crime.
US Attorney Preet Bharara held a press conference to announce the charges, saying the scheme has been conducted over the last decade during which money was stolen from the Conference on the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a non-profit organization that disburses funds provided by the German government to individuals and organizations.
Bharara reported that six employees of the group approved more than 5,500 falsified applications for aid, leading to millions of dollars going to people who did not qualify for assistance. The prosecutor portrayed the Claims Conference as a victim in the case, commenting that the organization had for the last sixty years extended a "financial lifeline for thousands of survivors who suffered the worst of what World War II had to offer."
Bharara added that the defendants created such a culture of fraud that even some Claims Conference employees and their families received payments. He said that officials of the conference have provided great help to the investigation ever since they reported the fraud to the FBI after an internal investigation was completed in December 2009.
Federal authorities announced on Tuesday that they were bringing charges against 17 people in connection with the raiding of two funds set up to provide financial relief for Holocaust survivors. The funds were reportedly stripped of about $42 million combined, and several people who were supposed to administer the funds were part of the crime.
US Attorney Preet Bharara held a press conference to announce the charges, saying the scheme has been conducted over the last decade during which money was stolen from the Conference on the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a non-profit organization that disburses funds provided by the German government to individuals and organizations.
Bharara reported that six employees of the group approved more than 5,500 falsified applications for aid, leading to millions of dollars going to people who did not qualify for assistance. The prosecutor portrayed the Claims Conference as a victim in the case, commenting that the organization had for the last sixty years extended a "financial lifeline for thousands of survivors who suffered the worst of what World War II had to offer."
Bharara added that the defendants created such a culture of fraud that even some Claims Conference employees and their families received payments. He said that officials of the conference have provided great help to the investigation ever since they reported the fraud to the FBI after an internal investigation was completed in December 2009.
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