Australian police to charge Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi's wife (ran fake Hebrew School with no students)

[Ian David]

Black Collar Crime

Australian police to charge rabbi's wife
Published: 06/19/2008

Police in South Australia have recommended that the wife of a U.S.-born rabbi facing fraud charges also be charged.

Chana Engel and her husband, Yossi, face multiple charges of fraud relating to a phantom Hebrew school in Adelaide that they allegedly registered and for which they received government funding, according to a report in the Australian Jewish News.

The Engels allegedly signed fake report cards to secure approximately $50,000 in funding from the South Australian Ethnic Schools Board.

Police earlier this month recommended that Rabbi Engel face 17 counts of fraud. A court date has yet to be set for the Chabad-Lubavitch couple.

More:
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109116.html

[xchrom]

1. hmmm -- i'm surprised lubavitchers are involved

in a scandal like this.

goes to show -- greed will get to any one.

[maxsolomon]

2. as a resident of a lubavitch stronghold in Seattle

i find this highly amusing.

[Ian David]

3. It's possible they really believed they had a school full of invisible students.

Not LIKELY.

But possible.

If they were into Kabalah, they might have thought they were golems.