tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post8542634241920292789..comments2024-03-27T15:07:31.495-04:00Comments on <b><center>Unorthodox-Jew </center></b> <br><small>A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism</small>: An Open Letter To Rabbi Matisyahu Salomon, Mashgiach, Bais Medrash Govoha, Lakewood, New JerseyPaul Mendlowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-35473187539829250472009-11-13T00:08:37.062-05:002009-11-13T00:08:37.062-05:00Timing is everything.
Question why is Yated Neem...Timing is everything. <br /><br />Question why is Yated Neeman's Pinchos Lipschutz suddenly realizing, gee, let's take responsiblity and open up things a little.<br /><br />Hypotheses about timing:<br /><br />1. getting ready for the Rubashkin disaster (not likely, it was published before they had a verdict and they may still have hoped to luck out with one of those weird quirks of jury processes.<br /><br />2. Getting ready for the real Motty Borger story to come out. Again, not likely, because they never give up hope on a coverup until the day after it is front page news or there is an indictment.<br /><br />3. Getting ready for the Agudah convention. -- more likely. So we can count on some speech about admitting problems and even taking some additional so-called bold step. It may even be bold by their sluggish standards. My guess, they will revive the shared beit din. This will allow them to control rabbis who might have been too ready to say "just go to the police." Also this way they can decide which molesters to throw under the bus and whch to protect. At ths point, the question is no longer whether to protect all molesters. So the fighting is going to get uglier. I predict some nasty charges and counter charges about whose permissions are kosher and whose bans on informing are designed to protect molesters. They are very nervous because everyone is vulnerable through beit din participations, advice, friends, talmididm, relatives, congregants, funders, etc. It is also impossible for most folks to be sure they have all the schmutz covered up. Even if you have every case nailed down, the same guy probably molested someone else you don't know about. These sorts of things can start unravelling very quickly. I will bet that Hynes indctment rate will start heading up even higher. <br /><br />Should be fun to watch:<br /><br />Predictive question. Who will be the next one thrown under the bus and which Rabbi will take ownership to ward off other charges. <br /><br />Yerachmiel Lopin FrumFollies.wordpress.com<br /><br />PS Joe Engelman was listed as one of the Forwards 50 most influential Jews this year!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-65213048569210936072009-11-11T02:30:35.915-05:002009-11-11T02:30:35.915-05:00UOJ-
Time for you to do a Motty Borger o'h st...UOJ-<br /><br />Time for you to do a Motty Borger o'h story under your own byline.The business stinks. If you think there is any truth to Nuchem Rosenberg's names it should be told now while it has everybody's attention.<br /><br />Yerachmiel LopinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-36636285182216194702009-11-10T12:30:44.561-05:002009-11-10T12:30:44.561-05:00http://www.chimpout.com/forum/image.php?u=3332&...http://www.chimpout.com/forum/image.php?u=3332&dateline=1228186101<br /><br />Rakim forgets to mention that much of software available was developed by Orthodox Jews who insert tricky code to stunt the advancement of Black people.Shmarya groupiehttp://www.chimpout.com/forum/image.php?u=3332&dateline=1228186101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-92141673447395417112009-11-10T12:29:00.654-05:002009-11-10T12:29:00.654-05:00I'm glad to see our Satmar allies are doing a ...I'm glad to see our Satmar allies are doing a good job of smearing Nuchem Rosenberg to discredit the truth he speaks about sex abuse victims. Vito Lopez came up with the idea of calling him a "zoken mamreh."Agudah Fressernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-81173025626960206552009-11-10T11:14:19.277-05:002009-11-10T11:14:19.277-05:00Rosenberg Nuchem was in cherem and still is He tal...Rosenberg Nuchem was in cherem and still is He talks garbage, is a groise talmid chulem He claims to be writing a fourth volume on Mikva He hasn't even written one He tells people to go to mikvah on Yom Kippur he is a Zoken Mamreh He is talking about people without any witnesses at all. He is an extorionist at best, and apoor one too, Ever seen his hat? LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-86616825879905558752009-11-10T00:35:27.255-05:002009-11-10T00:35:27.255-05:00"Meanwhile, check out the link below re: an u..."Meanwhile, check out the link below re: an unsolved murder at the Yeshiva Of Long Beach in 1986. I remember when it happened and that it was covered up.<br /><br />We could use some good investigative reporting over here.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.unsolved.com/ajaxfiles/une_chaim_weiss.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.unsolved.com/ajaxfiles/une_chaim_weiss.htm</a>"<br /><br />If you are able to, and you understand Hungarian Yiddish, listen to the most recent report from R Nuchum Rosenberg on his 212 461 2778 line and you will hear him report about cases of hangings, suicides, pushing of kids to kill themselves in CHASIDISHE COMMUNITIES when there were questions raised by parents about pedophilia and sexual abuse against rebbeim, so it's no suprise that a kid in a yeshiva dorm may have been killed when he may have finally warned a molester that he would expose him and he to paid the ultimate price, no less than a korban.Pedophiles in Mikvas and Yeshivasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-78069330416132755902009-11-09T22:12:20.793-05:002009-11-09T22:12:20.793-05:00(Reuters) - Federal and state authorities have cha...(Reuters) - Federal and state authorities have charged 14 people with fraud and conspiracy as part of an insider trading network that involves some of the same companies and individuals as the Galleon Group scandal.<br /><br />Below are names of some of the defendants, according to a charges filed against them in the Southern District of New York: <br /><br />* ZVI GOFFER Worked at Schottenfeld, a New York-based broker dealer, for nearly all of 2007. He moved to Galleon in January 2008, where he worked for about eight months before quitting to start his own trading firm, Incremental Capital.<br /><br />* JASON GOLDFARB Worked as an attorney in New York with the law firm of Brecher Fishman Pasternack Walsh Tilker & Ziegler, which specializes in injuries law. Brecher Fishman is where R' Shea Fishman releases tension during inclement weather events.<br /><br />* CRAIG DRIMAL Worked in Galleon's office space, but was not employed by Galleon. <br /><br />* EMANUEL GOFFER Worked at Spectrum Trading LLC in 2007 and is currently associated with Incremental Capital and broker-dealer Echotrade. <br /><br />* MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Was a founder, with Zvi Goffer, of Incremental Capital. He was also a trader at Lighthouse Financial Group. He previously worked as as a mergers and acquisition attorney at law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California Law School. <br /><br />* DAVID PLATE Worked at Schottenfeld from June 2006 through March, 2008; currently associated with Incremental Capital.Wall St Fressernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-29654104646185656722009-11-09T21:51:33.848-05:002009-11-09T21:51:33.848-05:00When he was arrested, Mr. Golb was asked by prosec...When he was arrested, Mr. Golb was asked by prosecutors if he wrote under the name “Charles Gadda,” one of the most visible Internet advocates for his father. He would not answer directly.<br /><br />“They would say that my father is doing it or asking me to do it,” Mr. Golb said, according to court papers. “My father certainly never asked me to do anything of the kind.”<br /><br />But he allowed that “Charles Gadda” was doing pretty well. “Do you realize that the Charles Gadda articles have been read by thousands of people?” Mr. Golb continued. “I know that, because I look at them, it says on them.”<br /><br />The Internet is, of course, both gold mine and sludge pile, where people lie about their ages, their abilities, the world. The prosecutors say that by adopting all those false identities, Mr. Golb was trying to obtain a benefit, and so committed criminal impersonation, identity theft and aggravated harassment. But Mr. Golb’s lawyers maintain that there was no tangible benefit, and therefore no crime.<br /><br />“Gaining an advantage in academic debate about the Dead Sea Scrolls is not the kind of benefit required by the law,” said Ronald Kuby, one of the defense lawyers.<br /><br />But what about the injury Mr. Golb apparently tried to inflict on Lawrence H. Schiffman, the chairman of Judaic studies at N.Y.U.? Someone wrote from larry.schiffman@gmail.com to Professor Schiffman’s graduate students and dean, alerting them to an article that suggested he had committed plagiarism. Perhaps two things go without saying: The article was actually written under one of Raphael Golb’s pseudonyms, and Professor Schiffman has been critical of the theories of Golb père.<br /><br />The defense claims that the e-mail messages were transparent parodies, and that in any event, injury to a reputation is a civil matter, not a criminal violation.part 2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-23976452426421151372009-11-09T21:51:12.018-05:002009-11-09T21:51:12.018-05:00http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08about...http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08about.html<br /><br />Investigators had a warrant to arrest Raphael Haim Golb and seize his computer. He was caught red-handed.<br /><br />Mr. Golb is, or was, a guerrilla fighter in a cyberbrawl over the Dead Sea Scrolls, a war about the origins of 2,000-year-old documents that has consumed the energy of academics around the globe.<br /><br />He was being arrested for fighting dirty.<br /><br />Mr. Golb is 49 years old and had 50 e-mail aliases. He used pseudonyms to post on blogs. Under the name of a professor he was trying to undermine, prosecutors charged, Mr. Golb wrote a quasi confession to plagiarism and circulated it among students and officials at New York University.<br /><br />His purpose, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said, was “to influence and affect debate on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and in order to harass Dead Sea Scrolls scholars who disagree with his viewpoint.”<br /><br />For a while, no one knew that 50 different names in the Dead Sea Scrolls debate were the prolific Mr. Golb, a graduate of Oberlin College who has a law degree from New York University and a doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard (dissertation: “The Problems of Privacy and Trust in Modern Literature, and their Relation to the Idea of Freedom”).<br /><br />In court papers filed last week, Mr. Golb’s lawyers argued that prosecutors were trying to criminalize the commonplace. Both sides in the Dead Sea Scrolls debate, they said, use “sock puppets” — fake identities — on the Internet to make it seem as if scores of people are arguing a point.<br /><br />“These bloggers marshaled their legion of sock puppets to engage in intellectual combat with the sock puppets allegedly created by Raphael Golb and others,” the lawyers wrote.<br /><br />No other creatures in the animal kingdom behave like this, not when the stakes are lower than food or mating or survival. And here’s a bonus: a thread of the Shakespearean runs through the case.<br /><br />Mr. Golb’s father is Norman Golb, a professor at the University of Chicago and a critic of claims that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of a sect called the Essenes, thought to have lived near the Qumran caves where the scrolls were found. Professor Golb has suggested that the scrolls were actually the product of several libraries in Jerusalem and were taken to the caves around the time the city fell to the Romans in the year 70. This is not a dispute for the fainthearted. Golb the Son has taken up his father’s cause with all the vigor permitted by multiple Gmail accounts.Raphael Chaim Golbhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08about.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-22763956333073946932009-11-09T21:43:12.668-05:002009-11-09T21:43:12.668-05:00http://www.hedgeworld.com/news/read_newsletter_aa....http://www.hedgeworld.com/news/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=dail&story=dail16583.html<br /><br />Zvi Goffer could have passed for Tony Soprano when he warned confederates in his alleged insider-trading ring that "someone's going to jail." Don't be too obvious about making big money, he said in a cell phone conversation intercepted by investigators in February 2008. <br /><br />"Someone's going to jail, going directly to jail, so don't let it be you, OK?" Goffer said, according to a criminal complaint. "That's a ticket right to the (expletive) Big House." <br /><br />According to federal prosecutors, Goffer was the boss of an insider trading operation that paid sources for non-public information. He and 13 others were charged on Thursday as the scandal centered on Goffer's former employer, hedge fund Galleon Group, widened dramatically. <br /><br />A criminal complaint naming Goffer, head of the trading firm Incremental Capital, and his alleged accomplices reads like a script for TV dramas like "The Wire" or "The Sopranos," in which drug and Mafia criminals try to stay one step ahead of the law. <br /><br />Federal prosecutor Preet Bharara told a news conference that investigators resorted to wire taps and other methods "traditionally reserved for the mob and narcotics traffickers" when the accused began "taking a page from the drug dealers' playbook (and) deliberately used anonymous, hard-to-trace, pre-paid cell phones in order to avoid detection." <br /><br />Calls recorded by law enforcement officials were littered with nicknames like "the Greek" and "the Rat," and even jokes about getting information from a guy fixing a pothole. Current and past targets were code-named the "Hilton hit" and the "Apple." <br /><br />There was talk about "cash lying around," and investigators observed what they believed were hand-offs of white bags and cases packed with cash. <br /><br />In one phone call, an attorney, Jason Goldfarb, who was charged on Thursday, told Goffer that he had a meeting with the "boys" planned, but added they were like "nervous nellies." <br /><br />The "boys," according to prosecutors, was a reference to people sharing information with the alleged ring. <br /><br />Goldfarb said the "boys" were "hungry" because one had recently "spent his whole chunk of change" on his honeymoon and the other had "bought a new kitchen." <br /><br />"Now they're, they're ready to replenish, and that's what we're going to do," Goldfarb said, according to the complaint. <br /><br />Much like the drug traffickers in "The Wire," those accused in the insider-trading ring were constantly paranoid about a potential "rat" who would talk to the authorities. <br /><br />In the end, all their precautions didn't work. <br /><br />"When sophisticated business people begin to adopt the methods of common criminals, we have no choice but to treat them as such," Bharara said.Zvi Gofferhttp://www.hedgeworld.com/news/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=dail&story=dail16583.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-8587864405340414192009-11-09T21:39:46.811-05:002009-11-09T21:39:46.811-05:00What about the moderne Munkatcher molesters in Fra...What about the moderne Munkatcher molesters in Frankel's shul in Flatbush like Potyi Lipschitz?Munkatcher Putznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-38081691037388199652009-11-09T21:02:17.341-05:002009-11-09T21:02:17.341-05:00To: Hella Winston And Robert Kolker and all of the...To: Hella Winston And Robert Kolker and all of the other investigative reporters:<br /><br />First of all thank you for all of the good work that you have done. Please don't give up now. <br /><br />Although you are not part of the community we appreciate and honor you for all that you have done. We are forever in your debt.<br /><br />Please continue to expose all of the monsters and the evil organizations and leaders that cover up these henious crimes against our helpless children.<br /><br />Signed,<br /><br />The silent orthodox jewish majorityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-64221741993862025272009-11-09T20:47:46.165-05:002009-11-09T20:47:46.165-05:00It's probably a very good chance that Borgor w...It's probably a very good chance that Borgor was molested as a child.<br /><br />R" Nuchum claims that he was repeatedly molested in Munkatch while he was in elemntary school.<br /><br />Meanwhile the Moetzes Gedolei Havantzen are probably more interested in how many boys from Torah Temmimah end up going to Brisk then a jewish groom out of anguish jumping out of a hotel window on to 13th Av.<br /><br />Meanwhile, check out the link below re: an unsolved murder at the Yeshiva Of Long Beach in 1986. I remember when it happened and that it was covered up.<br /><br />We could use some good investigative reporting over here.<br /><br />http://www.unsolved.com/ajaxfiles/une_chaim_weiss.htmMalach HaMovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17028916399489737048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-66853603436023291142009-11-09T20:22:40.896-05:002009-11-09T20:22:40.896-05:00The rabbis are loath to tell you that our Rabbi Fi...The rabbis are loath to tell you that our Rabbi Finkel in Chicago was correct in his opinion that sexual abuse victims need special care preparing them for intimacy. The idea of intimacy cannot be sprung upon the unprepared on the first night or things end up in disaster. The intimacy issues facing newlyweds has to be addressed, but we have to prevent more victims by turning in pedophiles. I listened and am happy now!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-26980451137253575232009-11-09T20:14:55.561-05:002009-11-09T20:14:55.561-05:00"Criminals Bilk Medicare of Billions Each Yea..."<a href="http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/medicare/articles/criminals_bilk_medicare_of_billions_each_yearsplurge_on_sports_cars_horses_hotels_helicopters_.1.html" rel="nofollow">Criminals Bilk Medicare of Billions Each Year</a><br /><br />And Medicare officials admit that with their skimpy anti-fraud budget they are hamstrung because the system’s goal is to pay for medically necessary services quickly—within 14 days—which leaves little time to verify the millions of claims handled each week.<br /><br />Shady health care operators have repeatedly proved they can circumvent Medicare’s weak technological defenses by simply altering computer billing codes to get their claims approved or by changing their scams to stay one step ahead of the system.<br /><br />But this year Congress stepped up, allocating an extra $200 million for Medicare’s anti-fraud budget. An additional $300 million is on tap for 2010. The money has enabled the agency to make more unannounced visits to providers, launch more audits of dubious claims and upgrade its computer software that flags suspicious bills. And Medicare crime fighting is becoming more resourceful to keep up with the crooks. Now, for example, the agency is trying to rein in billing for expensive home visits to Medicare patients that are not needed or never made.<br /><br />Miami’s average cost for each Medicare home health care patient with diabetes and related illnesses runs $11,928 every two months, according to a new HHS report—32 times the national average of $378. “That’s how bad things have gotten in Miami,” says Cecilia Franco, who heads the Medicare office there. So her office is sending nurses and investigators door-to-door to see if beneficiaries that health care agencies claim as clients really need twice-daily visits by skilled nurses. To discourage this scam, in January federal officials will impose a 10 percent cap on payments while they investigate claims—a first in Medicare history."<br /><br />"<a href="" rel="nofollow">Diagnosis Medicare Fraud</a><br /><br />By: Elizabeth Nolan Brown | Source: AARP Bulletin Today | - November 2007<br /><br />Peter Hillenbrand, 86, underwent more than 15 surgeries to remove skin cancer.<br /><br />“I had so many cuts on my face, my arm, my back,” says Hillenbrand of Sarasota, Fla. After one surgery, his left eye was sewn shut for two months. Some of the surgeries left scars.<br /><br />But Hillenbrand may never have had skin cancer. He was a patient of Sarasota dermatologist Michael Rosin, who is serving 22 years in federal prison for Medicare fraud. Rosin was convicted in 2006 after billing more than $3 million for unnecessary surgeries on at least 70 elderly patients.<br /><br />Rosin, 57, routinely gave patients false skin-cancer diagnoses, sometimes without even looking at their biopsy slides. Dozens of slides recovered from his office were completely unreadable. He blamed their illegibility on a “conspiracy” amongst his staff.<br /><br />Nearly every patient who had a biopsy was told he or she had skin cancer and needed surgery. According to court testimony, one former patient said that she became so accustomed to Rosin finding cancer that she would schedule surgery before he gave her the biopsy results.<br /><br />Because Rosin could bill Medicare for each layer of skin he removed, many patients were subjected to unnecessary removal of layers, leaving some permanently disfigured. Others, like Hillenbrand, underwent surgery many times...<br /><br />Hillenbrand says he thought Rosin was a friend. When he discovered that the married father of seven was defrauding him and others, Hillenbrand cried. “It was such a terrible, terrible thing that he was doing,” he says.<br /><br />An employee at Rosin’s office eventually filed a federal whistleblower suit against him, leading to an FBI investigation. In March 2006, a federal jury found Rosin guilty of 70 counts of Medicare fraud. U.S. District Judge William Castagna sentenced Rosin to 22 years in federal prison and ordered him to pay $48,866 to patients, $3.6 million to the Medicare trust fund, and another $3.7 million to the government."Medicare Fraudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-87026531214201592252009-11-09T20:11:11.168-05:002009-11-09T20:11:11.168-05:00"Criminals Bilk Medicare of Billions Each Yea..."<a href="http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/medicare/articles/criminals_bilk_medicare_of_billions_each_yearsplurge_on_sports_cars_horses_hotels_helicopters_.1.html" rel="nofollow">Criminals Bilk Medicare of Billions Each Year</a><br /><br />Since 2007, the strike forces have indicted nearly 300 defendants who allegedly stole $680 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Sentences range from two to 15 years, with one doctor receiving 30.<br /><br />Half of those defendants were arrested in Miami—the Medicare fraud capital of the nation. Schemes hatched there are perfected, then exported to other parts of the country.<br /><br />“We know the fraud is viral and spreading to other communities,” says Kirk Ogrosky, deputy chief of the Justice Department’s criminal fraud section, who coordinates the strike forces.<br /><br />Take the case of the two Miami men who allegedly set up a chain of about 40 clinics—with names like Fast Cure Company—in Florida and then four other states. Prosecutors contend the two men ran a ring that bilked Medicare out of $100 million for therapies—never administered—for cancer, HIV and other illnesses. Investigators found some of the “clinics” were empty storefronts with hand-lettered signs; others were post office boxes.<br /><br />Scammers obtain Medicare numbers by buying or stealing them from doctors, clinics or patients. Ogrosky says that once a “professional” patient sells his Medicare number, it can be reused again and again—or sold to others cheating the system.<br /><br />Just one Medicare number—in the wrong hands—tricked Medicare into paying more than $1.1 million for phantom treatments. Alexander McCray of Miami paid for his crack cocaine habit by helping dozens of clinic operators file false claims for phony HIV infusion treatments billed in his name.<br /><br />Hardened criminals <br /><br />Medicare is now a magnet for miscreants, including not only dishonest doctors and white-collar crooks, but hard cases like Guillermo Denis Gonzalez, a convicted murderer. He bought a Medicare-licensed medical equipment company and submitted more than $500,000 in phony claims—two years after walking out of prison.<br /><br />He pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare in August but still faces murder charges. Florida investigators say that after an argument, he killed and dismembered an acquaintance. The victim’s body parts were found in six black garbage bags in three different dumpsters around the Miami area.<br /><br />Calculating an exact national figure on the costs of Medicare fraud—estimates of losses range from $11 billion by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to $60 billion by industry experts—is difficult.<br /><br />Criminals intent on stealing as much as they can as fast as they can “have a relatively easy time breaking through all the industry’s defenses,” Malcolm Sparrow, a one-time fraud investigator and now a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, told a Senate committee in May.<br /><br />He said that if the crooks learn to submit their bills correctly, then for the most part their bogus claims “will be paid in full and on time, without a hiccup, by a computer, and with no human involvement at all.”<br /><br />Why is Medicare so vulnerable to crooks? The entitlement program is based on an honor system that many experts say is broken."Medicare Fraudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-50506326473725143412009-11-09T20:09:50.909-05:002009-11-09T20:09:50.909-05:00While the Obama regime plans on cutting $500 Billi...While the Obama regime plans on cutting $500 Billion from Medicare under te misnamed ObamaCare, these folks have started to help with the cuts their way, as reported in the latest AARP newsletter:<br /><br />"<a href="http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/medicare/articles/criminals_bilk_medicare_of_billions_each_yearsplurge_on_sports_cars_horses_hotels_helicopters_.1.html" rel="nofollow">Criminals Bilk Medicare of Billions Each Year</a><br /> <br />Splurge on sports cars, horses, hotels, helicopters <br /><br />By: Jay Weaver | Source: From the AARP Bulletin print edition | November 1, 2009<br /><br />They indulge their wildest whims—a private helicopter, Lamborghini sports cars, thoroughbred horses, even a “Pirates of the Caribbean” water theme park. For the schemers and scammers, Medicare fraud is one crime that does pay—and pay and pay. <br /><br />The Benitez brothers of Miami—Carlos, Luis and Jose—can vouch for that, federal prosecutors say. The brothers, who operated fake storefront clinics there, were indicted last year on fraud charges after allegedly collecting $84 million from Medicare for phony medical treatments. They spent their Medicare millions on the helicopter, the horses, a rental car agency and tourist hotels—all items the government is now trying to seize and reclaim for taxpayers.<br /><br />Medicare frauds are often inelegant—but they’re outrageously lucrative and relatively low-risk. So lucrative, and so low-risk, the FBI reports, that a number of cocaine dealers in Florida and California have switched from illicit drugs to Medicare fraud.<br /><br />Medicare loses billions of dollars to fraud each year. “Those billions of dollars,” said Eric Holder, U.S. attorney general, “represent health care dollars” that could be spent on medicine or care or hospital visits, “but instead are wasted on greed.”<br /><br />Yet Congress has denied Medicare the money officials say it needs to truly police itself. Four years ago, as fraud began spinning out of control, lawmakers ignored Medicare’s request for $300 million to fight these crimes—even though the agency’s Office of Inspector General says that every dollar spent protecting the program returns $17.<br /><br />Now, with Congress and the Obama administration hoping to help finance health care reform with $500 billion in savings wrung from Medicare over the next 10 years, cracking down on fraud is a fresh priority. And it shows. Just this year, anti-fraud efforts have seen a marked increase in money and agents.<br /><br />Miami vice<br /><br />The nation’s first federal Medicare fraud strike force hit the ground in Miami two years ago—with agents from the FBI and investigators from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, as well as federal prosecutors. Altogether, the strike force and the southern Florida U.S. Attorney’s Office indicted 197 suspects in 2007, almost doubling Medicare fraud prosecutions.<br /><br />In one Miami case alone, the team charged 16 people with orchestrating a $101 million fraud involving phony bills for medical equipment that Medicare patients neither needed nor received. Now, strike forces are operating in Medicare fraud hot spots like Los Angeles, Detroit and Houston, and officials say more cities will be targeted later this year. The scams are many, varied and spreading.<br /><br />The Houston strike force, for example, shut down clinics billing Medicare for $3,000 “arthritis kits” that were only heating pads and knee and shoulder braces. A $16 million bust last July netted 32 doctors and executives. Some of the clinics, prosecutors charge, also were billing for liquid food supplements for patients who were deceased."Medicare Fraudsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-58653349188548777632009-11-09T20:02:43.899-05:002009-11-09T20:02:43.899-05:00"Anonymous said...While the subject of Nuchem..."Anonymous said...While the subject of Nuchem Rosenberg's campaign is a truly painful one that has been poorly handled by everyone involved, he should be the last person to consider an authority on it."<br /><br />Why? He has done a good job of creating awarenes of this subject and he has the guts to fight the pedophiles and to speak up against the silent and hypocritical leadership that is doing nothing. Usually, and it is proven, the Rebbes and Rosh Yeshivas protect the pedophiles because they don't want negative attention and they still have a mentality of 200 years ago they think they are living in the shteitalch, while parents of kids attacked by pedophiels are warned that if they speak out they will be kicked out of their communities. So stop talking garbage and baby-ish lies please.<br /><br />"His tactics are harsh,"<br /><br />There is no gentle of way of doing this. There is no gentle way of cutting out cancers and tumors either. There is also no gentle way of clearing car crashes from highways. They get scraped off the roads and it's ugly and messy.<br /><br />"morally challenged,"<br /><br />How so? Can you explain?<br /><br />"and smack of his own agenda."<br /><br />Like what? It seems he genuinely is being moser nefesh and being meimis es atzmo for the inyan of saving Jewish kids from pedophiles. He should get prizes and awards. Why is he being persecuted by the backwards and corrupt rebbeim? Can you answer that please?<br /><br />"He probably means well,"<br /><br />You are too kind.<br /><br />"but lacks the finesse to accomplish anything but public shmearing."<br /><br />He is blunt, outspoken and refreshing. In any case he talks like any chosid does just he talks bekol ram and he is willing to say openly what many are thinking and saying quietly. He is very brave. The rebbes are threatened. They are small men. What have they done to earn their leadership of the Jewish people beyond being the spoiled brat sons and grandsons of previous rebbes. Not even "tzadikim" that hide in peltz. <br /><br />It is time to cancel and get rid of the corrupt useless leadership of the rebbes and rosh yeshiva and rabbonim who cover up for and protect pedophiles, and instead to put men like R Nuchem Rosenberg in positions of leadership. He is a great Rebbe in his own right alareday. His oppressors have made him into a nirdaf and Hashem loves the nirdafim. Is he mechalel Shabbos? Does he eat treifos? Does he deny the Torah? His only "crime" is that he speaks out against the corruption in matters of immorality and espcially about pedophiles and rapes. So what is wrong with that? <br /><br />If there were ten thousand like him Klal Yisroel wowwuld be better off that wih all the coward Rebbes and Rosh Yeshiva who only worry about their fat donations and their positions. They are fakers while R Rosenberg is genuine, unless you know more about him than just shouting at him names. <br /><br />He is a fighter for the weak. The Torah says it is a mitzva to protect the yasom, almana and ger because they have nobody to fight for them. The nevi'im attacked the corrupt kings who are just like today's rabbinic leadership that accepts bribes and tolerates evil like pedophilia instead of being humble, of the people and fighting the evil and not accepting it as part of life. You know this and everyone knows this. It's time to tell the corrupt leaders to resign.<br /><br />"This is offensive."<br /><br />What is? Your willingness to accept pedophiles and to allow kids to be molested and then commit suicide because they are too screwed up to be married is offensive. Shoteh and rasha.<br /><br />"Can't we find other authority people and look to them for their opinions?"<br /><br />Like who? Find some good leaders who are willing to fight pedophilia and throw out the KNOWN pedophiles and rapists roaming in the frum neighborhoods attacking kids and young men in the mikvas and yeshivas, and nebech girls being molested by their own male and female relatives, sometimes girls are attacked by lesbians in frum community too and its covered up and ignored, if the wrondoers are evicted then all will follow the ones who remove the evil, ubi'arta hara mikirbecha, in an heartbeat. Guaranteed.Pedophiles in Mikvas and Yeshivasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-79660045820501322512009-11-09T19:35:43.926-05:002009-11-09T19:35:43.926-05:00"Anonymous said...why would you publicize thi..."Anonymous said...why would you publicize this story without the victim's permission?"<br /><br />The victim is dead, can't get his "permission" now. However there are hundreds, in fact thousands of frum kids being molested by pedophiles in mikvas, yeshivas. camps and in their own homes. Should everyone just remain silent? Like in the Holocaust? What about lo sa'amod al dam rei'echa? If it was your kid would you keep quiet, like many who are blackmailed to shut up or be booted out of their kehilas. You are a coward.<br /><br />"I'm not saying I believe it - I have no idea if it's true."<br /><br />It's true. Plenty of it, and worse than you think. Ask any therapist that works in the frum communities.<br /><br />"But in the event that it is, don't you think a victim deserves privacy?"<br /><br />No. How does a dead person get "privacy"? They alareday have it in the grave. It is very quiet there. Try it. The victim deserves justice.<br /><br />"Even more so, when he's no longer with us and can't speak for himself."<br /><br />So what? V'hachai yiten el libo. This is a plague that must be stamped out. Do you think in yemos hamoshiach that the Sanhedrin will tolerate pedophilia in YESHIVAS and MIKVAOS of all places??? Think it over. Don't be afrid of the truth. Shining the light of reality and the truth on shefichas damim will help to bring it to light, control it, and eventually to eradicate it.<br /><br />In any case have you heard everything that R Nuchem Rosenberg says here: can you give specfic responses rather to his points rather than just act like an immature crybaby (the stage that precedes acting like a terrorist to shut people up.)<br /><br /><b>According to R Nuchum Rosenberg (and psychiatrists say this can happen) THE RECENT SUICIDE IN BORO PARK OF MOTTY BORGER A'H WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF HIM BEING A VICTIM OF PEDOPHILIA. HE WAS MESSED UP AND COULDN'T TAKE MARRIAGE: Hear all of it for yourself. Dial 712 432 8788 1121 dial 0# when prompted. The first part is in English, the rest in Yiddish.</b>Pedophiles in Mikvas and Yeshivasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-87010306752923797562009-11-09T18:39:42.032-05:002009-11-09T18:39:42.032-05:00Pedophiles in Mikvas - why would you publicize thi...Pedophiles in Mikvas - why would you publicize this story without the victim's permission? I'm not saying I believe it - I have no idea if it's true. But in the event that it is, don't you think a victim deserves privacy? Even more so, when he's no longer with us and can't speak for himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-72594001502893971412009-11-09T17:09:48.752-05:002009-11-09T17:09:48.752-05:00While the subject of Nuchem Rosenberg's campai...While the subject of Nuchem Rosenberg's campaign is a truly painful one that has been poorly handled by everyone involved, he should be the last person to consider an authority on it. His tactics are harsh, morally challenged, and smack of his own agenda. He probably means well, but lacks the finesse to accomplish anything but public shmearing. This is offensive. Can't we find other authority people and look to them for their opinions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-56459712301274633082009-11-09T15:31:46.595-05:002009-11-09T15:31:46.595-05:00http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/nyregion/10pater...http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/nyregion/10paterson.html?hp<br /><br />A growing number of budget experts believe that New York can no longer afford to spend so much in the wake of the economic crisis, rising unemployment, the collapse of the stock market and the travails on Wall Street — the state’s main fiscal engine. While the state faces a deficit of more than $3 billion for the remaining four and a half months of this fiscal year, the greater worry among state officials are the unprecedented deficits the state faces in 2011 and 2012, after federal stimulus financing and a temporary tax increase on the wealthy expire.<br /><br />“We’re going to fall of a cliff unless we get our revenues and our expenditures in true sync,” said Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch, the administration’s point man in budget negotiations with the Legislature.<br /><br />He said that the state could no longer rely on its usual strategy of turning to an array of short-term solutions or ask more of the state’s taxpayers, adding, “We’re at the outer limits of the elasticity of our tax system.”Son of Booghttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/nyregion/10paterson.html?hpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-58326744911613512942009-11-09T15:06:12.852-05:002009-11-09T15:06:12.852-05:00Filed at 1:21 p.m. ET
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The U...Filed at 1:21 p.m. ET<br /><br />RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.<br /><br />The Court did not comment Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal.<br /><br />Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.<br /><br />Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were also suspected of fatal shootings in other states, including Louisiana, Alabama and Arizona. Malvo is serving a life sentence.UOJ gets resultsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-70879224192886161472009-11-09T15:01:21.701-05:002009-11-09T15:01:21.701-05:00Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Federal prose...Associated Press<br /><br />ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Federal prosecutors want a prison term of at least 27 years for a former Louisiana congressman convicted of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.<br /><br />William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans, was convicted in August of bribery, racketeering and other counts. The case made headlines when authorities found $90,000 in cash hidden in his freezer.<br /><br />He will be sentenced on Friday. Prosecutors want a term of 27 to 33 years under federal sentencing guidelines. That would be significantly longer than sentences for other congressman in recent scandals.<br /><br />The government also wants Mr. Jefferson to begin serving his sentence immediately after Friday's hearing. He is currently free on bond.Belsky resign!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-11102192185117997042009-11-09T14:57:35.629-05:002009-11-09T14:57:35.629-05:00When R' Matisyahu started pursuing it, he got ...When R' Matisyahu started pursuing it, he got stoned & sued in all directions.<br />He wants to wead rotten apples, but as an employee his hands are tied.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com