NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY
ANDREW KESHNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Two ex-administrators at a Brooklyn Hasidic school system are accused of taking food out of the mouths of children.
Elozer Porges, 43, and Joel Lowy, 29, formerly of the Central United Talmudic Academy, were indicted Thursday on charges that they bilked a federal school meal program out of $3 million — putting in claims on food that was never served.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors said the unreal meal scheme took place between 2013 and 2015. They said the pair padded reimbursement claims so they could reap larger checks from the U.S. Child and Adult Care Food Program — a program meant to feed at-risk children.
The FBI and the city Department of Investigation launched a joint investigation into the reimbursement process in 2014 — specifically looking at whether dinners were actually served at the Williamsburg schools.
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