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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Met Council

A Satmar Orthodox man volunteers to deliver free food provided by Met Council at a distribution center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard run by the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, on April 10, 2022. (Jacob Henry/JTA)
April 18, 2022, 3:06 am
In Brooklyn, some rabbis ask followers to turn down free food from ‘Zionists’
A faction within Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community is warning followers not to accept holiday charity from Met Council because it holds ‘all the abominations of the world’
By Jacob Henry
William Rapfogel arrives for his sentencing hearing in New York state Supreme Court, July 23, 2014 (Richard Drew/AP Images via JTA)
July 19, 2017, 9:35 pm
Ex-Met Council CEO wins early release from prison
William Rapfogel, who stole $9 million from the New York Jewish nonprofit he headed, serves less than 3 years of his term
By JTA
William Rapfogel, left, then the head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the social service agency's annual legislative breakfast in 2008. (photo credit: Metropolitan Council via JTA)
February 13, 2015, 10:18 pm
Met Council’s former insurance brokers sentenced
Two men ordered to pay $1.5 million, serve five years probation after pleading guilty to 20-year scam
By JTA
William Rapfogel, left, then the head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the social service agency's annual legislative breakfast in 2008. (photo credit: Metropolitan Council via JTA)
July 23, 2014, 10:55 pm
Met Council’s William Rapfogel sentenced, fined
Rapfogel received up to $30,000 per month in kickbacks; investigators found $400,000 in cash at his various homes
By JTA
December 21, 2013, 7:51 am
Scandal-battered Met Council cleared for state funding
Leading Jewish social services agency to receive support from NY state after vowing to implement ‘critical reforms’
By JTA
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