william rapfogel

🍨 Jailed ex-charity director moved to work-release facility 

A crooked ​former ​charity executive​ with ties to embattled ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been transferred to a work-release fꦉacility in Harlem after serving just 14 months behind bars for...

Former 🌜director of poverty nonprofit gets jail in $9M scam

The former executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty was sentenced ​Monday to a year’s worth of​​ ​long ​weekends in jail for his role in♌ scamming the nonprofit...

Rapfogel cohort renego🌱ti꧅ates plea deal 

An insurance company exec𝄹utive who conspired with the former head of a leading Jewish charity to fleece it oﷺf nearly $7 million renegotiated his plea deal Wednesday so he could...

 Charꦍity with ties to Sheldon Silver puts out a ca💙ll for help

A charity with🌼 ties to disgraced Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver sent out an SOS Thursday — just hours after the powerhouse politician was arrested on corruption charges. The Metropolitan Council...

NY's Capitol TV --- your guide to Albany's soap operas

The nominal plotlines are already shaping up for the next season of “The Real Lawmakers of Albany” — catfights over charter schools, rent laws and multibillion-dolജlar bank-f💫ine windfalls. Yet the...

Former head o𝓡f the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty sentenced 🧔

A judge sentenced ​the ​disgraced ​former head oꦇf the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Wednesday for ripping off $9 million ​from the charity ​as his wife ​-- ​the ex-chief of...

Rapfogel's late debt payoff paying off for him

Being late in paying off his debt is paying off personally for the disgraced former head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. William Rapfogel, an ex-pal of Asꦛsembly Speaker...

Elderly city⭕ Jewish charity thief sentenced t﷽o 4 months in jail

🦄 A Manhattan judge Tuesday sentenced an elderly crony of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s close pal William Rapfogel to four months in jail for helping steal $9 million from the Metropolitan... 🦩

Rapfogel cron🔯y guilty in theft from Jewish charity ღ

An accomplice of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s former close pal William Rapfogel🌌 pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in the 👍theft of $9 million from the Metropolitan Council on Jewish...

The rap on Rapfogel

On Wednesday, William Rapfogel pleaded guilty to grand larceny an෴d other charges in connection with a two-decade scheme in which the former head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty...

Speake﷽r Silver pal Rapfogel pleads guilty to $9M charity scam

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's longtime pal pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing $9 million from a top Jewish charity he headed by inflating insurance premiums over two de🌃cades. William Rapfogel, former...

William Rapfogel to🍸 plead guilty for his role in $7M theft 🎐 

A longtime pal of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is expected to plead guilty in Manhattan state Supreme Court Wednesday for his role in allegedly steaꦦling more than $7 million from...

𒅌Alleged Rapfogel accomplice cops to role in Met Council ripoff ℱ

 Things were looking grim for a longtime pal of Assembly Speaker🌊 Sheldon Silver after an alleged accomplice copped a plea Wednesday in a long-running scheme to steal more than $7꧅...

Met Coౠuncil scand꧋al gets closer to Speaker Silver

The probe into the reported theft of $5 million from the Metropolitan Council on Je🧔wish Poverty by a key friend and ally of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is raising new...

Albany's Rapfogel problem

Albany watchdogs are vowing to “follow the money” that the head of a major Jewish charity isಌ accused of stealing from the group. Question is, are they willing to follow...

Rapfogel's Albany enablers

 So far, the recent scandal at a major Jewish charity has focused largely on its leader, Willie Rapfogel. But a new report from Citizens Union makes clear that the politicians... 𒐪

𝕴 Scandalized nonprofit receives federal🥂 ObamaCare contract

A major city social-services agency engulfed in a multimillion-dollar charity scandal has been awarded federal contracts to sign up people 💖for ObamaCare, The Post has learned. The Metropolitan Council on...

✃ How campaign ‘reform’ inv🔥ites corruption 

Advocates of campaign-finance reform claim that🌼 the way to get corruption out of politics is via public financing. ♏The truth is that when you offer politicians taxpayer dollars, you only... 

 The Met🥀 Council scandal &𒊎 NY’s nonprofit nightmare 

‘Breathtaking” is the word that the state comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, used to describe the sc🐎heme of grand larceny that has now formally been laid against William Rapfogel, who — until... 🎉

Rapfogel is the lat🍸est scandal to envelop Silver 🐻

Folks stealing from charities to line their pockets is an old story. U🌞nfortunately for New Yorkers, so is folks funneling ill-gotten money to Albany in exchange for favors. This week,...