+1 I say there should be a policy, anyone getting a tuition break has to give their tzedakah money to the school and not to the flashy tzedakahs orgs.
Sorry to go back on topic... Any credible source that more arrests are coming tomorrow morning?
According to Wikipedia it seems that if investigators exercised the same level of scrutiny to almost any welfare population the result would be similar:"Welfare fraud is the act of illegally useing state welfare systems by knowingly withholding or giving information to obtain more funds than would otherwise be allocated.Obtaining reliable evidence of welfare fraud is notoriously difficult.[1][2] Official figures of the prevalence of welfare fraud based on government investigation tend to be low – a few percent of the total amount of welfare spending. Interviews with welfare recipients where the interviewer has succeeded to gain a high level of trust, on the other hand, have shown that many, if not most, fail to report incomes.[3][4] Likewise, a survey of the general population has found that more than 80% are prepared to cheat on welfare if the risk of audit is only 1/6.[1] In most cases, welfare fraud involves modest sums and is committed by people who struggle with poverty, but once started it often continues after reaching financial stability.[5][6]"Of course there is no excusing fraudulent behavior and we should be better as a whole than the general population. However, it does give some perspective...
You wouldn't find anyone condoning such type of outright theft.
Wow, a community on edge. Wild rumors are swirling about another 50 arrests scheduled, and people are paniking..
the prosecutor said 10-12 more is about right.
Wasn't someone quoted as saying that "this is just the beginning" ?Who warned the community in 2015 ?
A thought just crossed my mind. Could this be a result of Obamacare? IINM part of that law was tighter sharing of income information and was expected to result in people getting off medicaid (and possibly other welfare programs).
Of course it was. It also caused the car crash down the block from me.
What do you think of this ? https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1308030/op-ed-national-story-12-arrested-lakewood-ignored-sixty-eight-arrested-pennsylvania.html
The average number in that list is $3k-$4k, nothing close to the amounts that the Lakewood story is about.
Is this the orthodox financial crime master thread? Cuz https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/new-york/brooklyn/men-busted-swiping-270g-amex-fake-nyc-company-article-1.3289265
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The statement from the prosecutor is going to come back to haunt him. Any good defense attorney will seize upon that to show that it was not his clients alleged crime that made them arrest him but that they needed to show something for the millions of dollars spent illegally profiling a religious community. Imagine a prosecutor saying he targeted the black community.
Is this the orthodox financial crime master thread?
