A crooked former charity executive with ties to embattled ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been transferred to a work-release facility in Harlem after serving just 14 months be🌊hind bars for looting nearly $9 million from the non-profit he ran.
William Rapfogel, 60, was sentenced to 3-1/3 to 10 years in the slammer for masterminding an over-🔯billing scheme in which he and three cronies fleeced the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty over the course of 20 years.
Rapfogel pocketed $3 million from the scam, but paid it all back as part of his 2014 guilty plea to grand larceny, money laundering and tax fraud.
Prison records show he’s not eligible for parole until November 2017.
But after serving half his minimum sentence, Rapfogel was approved for a work-release program, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervisionꦍ.
He was transferred Tuesday from the medium-sꦬecurity Woodbourne Correctional Facility near Monticello to the minimum-security Li🐷ncoln Correctional Facility on 110th Street, the DOCCS said.
Following 10 days at Lincoln, Rapfogel is expected to start working weekdays at a job he’s got lined up, a source said.
He’ll have to spend weeknights and weekends inside the dormitory-style brick building, but can eventually apply for a furlough based on his good behavior.
If granted, he could live at home during either the work week o🌞r on weekends.
Rapfogel is a friend of Silver’s, and his wife, Judy, is Silver’s longtime chief of staff.
Silver is currently on trial in Manhattan fe๊deral court over allegations he traded taxpayer cash and political favors for nearly $4 million worth of legal referrals.