NEW YORK
The Journal News
Steve Lieberman and Jonathan Bandler, jbandler@lohud.com May 12, 2016
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office had no comment.
KIRYAS JOEL – FBI agents and other law enforcement officials are conducting a number of raids across this ultra-Orthodox village Thursday, including at at least one property run by the United Talmudical Academy.
Outside that four-story brick yeshiva, at 16A Getzil Berger Boulevard, a Journal News reporter observed at least seven law enforcement officials carrying items out of the building, most of them wearing FBI jackets.
It was not immediately clear whether the raids were connected to earlier search warrants executed at ultra-Orthodox yeshivas in Rockland County in mid-March. Those raids targeted possible misuse of federal “e-rate” technology funding by religious schools. Several warrants were executed in Kiryas Joel that day and a grand jury continues to meet in that case.
A separate or related probe that led to searches in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that same day was possibly targeting school lunch program spending, according to a report in The Forward.
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