The FBI in New York is investigating a number of ultra-Orthodox people on suspicion of defrauding the authorities of millions. Some of them are accused of defrauding banks and taking corona loans in the name of non-existent companies and registering family members for non-existent businesses. They founded idle companies and pocketed millions of corona grants
Blasphemy: The FBI is investigating a number of Haredim in New York on suspicion of fraudulently spending money, in one case two partners who belong to a large Hasidic group, fraudulently spent two million dollars.
According to the information that came to me in ‘Ba Hadari Haredim’, the two partners opened fictitious companies during the Corona period, they took advantage of the opportunity that the authorities could not check each and every company, since in the United States it is very easy to open a limited liability company without complicated bureaucracy. A lawyer is required to accompany the company , fill out a form on the website of the Tax Authority and you have an official company in your name. So in this way they opened at least 10 companies that do not exist.
Members of their families registered as employees, defrauded banks, forged payslips, told that they had to close the business and let employees go home, because they had no salaries to pay, and thus fraudulently spent two million dollars. But after the corona epidemic ended, the law authorities began to look in depth at the grants and loans they gave to business owners, and that’s how they got to the two partners in Brooklyn, and discovered that they had defrauded the authorities from every possible angle.
The two were arrested for questioning and released on bail, their legal status is still unclear. But what is certain is that the law authorities continue to check every person who received financial assistance during the corona.