Two former leaders of a prestigious, Brooklyn-based chain of Yeshivas
are facing up to 20 years prison for claiming they were serving kids
federally subsidized suppers five nights a week — and instead pocketing
the $3 million in subsidies, the feds said Thursday.
Elozer Porges and Joel Lowy, formerly executive director and
assistant director of Central United Talmudic Academy, pleaded not
guilty to conspiracy and fraud at their arraignment in Brooklyn federal
court.
The yeshiva bigwigs had submitted phony documents claiming that
between 2014 and 2016, low-income and at-risk children stayed late and
ate supper every weeknight at three of their schools — at 762 Wythe
Ave., 25 Franklin St. and 84-88 Sandford St. — the charges allege.
But while many of the schools’ kids ate federally subsidized
breakfasts, lunches and snacks, they wouldn’t stay for supper, the feds
said.
School is dismissed by 4:45 p.m. and no supper is served, bus drivers at the Wythe Avenue school told The Post Thursday.
Ex-school officials accused of embezzling $3M from federal lunch program | New York Post
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