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Jordie1010 OP t1_itm4dii wrote

From the article: “The largest private Hasidic Jewish school in New York State stole millions of dollars from a variety of government programs in a yearslong fraud, the school admitted in federal court documents filed on Monday.

The operators of the school, the Central United Talmudical Academy, which serves more than 2,000 boys in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, acknowledged that they illegally diverted money from government programs for school lunches, technology and child care. They also admitted to setting up no-show jobs for some employees while paying others in cash and coupons so the employees could qualify for welfare, according to a deferred prosecution agreement filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.

In all, the school agreed to pay $5 million in fines in addition to the more than $3 million it had already paid in restitution as part of the deal to avoid prosecution…”

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RW3Bro t1_itmpjbg wrote

The last sentence of the article is also wild.

> In 2019, The Times reported, the Central United Talmudical Academy agreed to give state standardized tests in reading and math to more than 1,000 students. Every one of them failed.

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impactedturd t1_itnm5o7 wrote

How do you even fail a standardized test? Does that just mean that none of them were performing at their grade level compared to their peers?

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mdragon13 t1_itnn6sf wrote

They literally dont even teach them the subject. Secular classes are a joke in yeshivahs, and the students know it. It just straight up isn't valued by them.

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REIRN t1_itpjt36 wrote

chasidic yeshivahs*. The yeshivah I graduated from had an average SAT score of around 1400 and 10% of graduates went to an ivy.

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grimsb t1_itnr9j1 wrote

They aren’t taught much English, and I’m guessing the standardized tests aren’t available in Yiddish.

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TerraAdAstra t1_itnyxxj wrote

They aren’t real schools. At all.

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bacon69 t1_itplpd1 wrote

Fake schools….. fake cops (shomrim).

Just google Kiryas Joel… enough said.

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Pufflekun t1_itp5lnl wrote

How do you pass a standardized reading test, if you cannot read one word of English‽

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Hairy_Necessary6700 t1_itmacoy wrote

Isn’t it written somewhere in their faith….In those thingys Moses got…. Something something about stealing?

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DaoFerret t1_itmi7nm wrote

“Thou Shalt Not get caught stealing!”
— Supply Side Moses

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brownredgreen t1_itn1noy wrote

Jus like the millions of Xtians who "love thy neighbor" by voting for Trump

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senseofphysics t1_itox4qk wrote

You just obliterated any religious argument they may pose.

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Hairy_Necessary6700 t1_itpesjz wrote

There are mental gymnastics they play to argue what they are doing is not stealing. And I’m sure they have so much experience doing this daily to live with themselves, that they’ll win gold at the next mental Olympics.

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manchesthairy t1_itnuv0b wrote

The yeshiva also benefited from its fraudulent payment practices because many employees and other community members used their welfare status to receive New York City vouchers for child care — and then used them to pay the school, according to the documents. The Times reported last month that a city voucher program sent nearly a third of its total funding to Hasidic neighborhoods last year.

The federal investigation found that the school defrauded government programs meant to provide meals to low-income children, receiving more than $3.2 million from 2014 to 2016 in reimbursement for what the authorities said was an “almost entirely fictitious” meal program.

The fraud included the fabrication of records and dozens of sworn misrepresentations to government agencies, the authorities noted.

In some cases, the court documents said, yeshiva officials claimed that they provided meals to children on days when the school was not in session

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Joe_Doblow t1_itojqf9 wrote

So you can literally PAY to not go to jail. That’s kind of not fair

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senseofphysics t1_itox9di wrote

Usually Hasidics are pardoned the same day by the judge for free but I guess this time it was the limit

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spaetzelspiff t1_itnbl8j wrote

>they illegally diverted money from government programs for school lunches, technology and child care. They also admitted to setting up no-show jobs for some employees while paying others in cash

Damn. More like Central UNited Talmudical School, amirite?

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