Dr. Levy was filming women at Johns Hopkins with a secret device. A few months ago the court awarded $190 million in damages to the 8000 victims. That works out to about $24,000 per victim although legal & other fees have to be subtracted from the amount.
If the Freundel's victim count stands at 200 +, that would equal about $5 million on the same scale.
Among those tasked by the RCA and its affiliated Beth Din of America with investigating Freundel were two attorneys who now lead major Jewish organizations: Allen Fagin, now the chief professional at the Orthodox Union, and Eric Goldstein, now CEO of the UJA-Federation of New York. Goldstein declined to comment to JTA; a representative for Fagin said he was unavailable for comment.
A rabbinic critic interviewed by JTA said the RCA’s approach to Freundel was “totally incompetent.”
“The organization should have seen a red flag and they didn’t,” said the critic, who declined to be named because he said he did not want to be a distraction. “This is a story of a Jewish institution missing the warning signs because they answer to nobody.”
The critic compared the RCA’s handling of the Freundel allegations to the failure by Yeshiva University to reign in the inappropriate behavior of Rabbi George Finkelstein, a teacher and administrator at Y.U.’s high school for boys who over the course of three decades allegedly wrestled and hugged boys inappropriately, and the failure of the Orthodox Union to put a stop to the abuse of minors by Rabbi Baruch Lanner, who was exposed by reports in The New York Jewish Week and eventually was convicted in 2002 of two counts of child sexual abuse."
Read more: http://www.jta.org/2014/10/21/news-opinion/united-states/freundels-abuse-of-power-extended-beyond-mikvah-peeping-1#ixzz3Gtdgds2b
