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Jailed ex-charity director moved to work-release facility ✨
November 25, 2015 | 4:44pmA crooked former charity executive with ties to embattled ex-Asse🃏mbly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been transferred to a work-release facility in Harlem after serving just 14 months behind bars for...
💫 Former director of poverty nonprofit gets jail in $9M scam
May 11, 2015 | 12:48pmThe 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 renegotiatesꦐ plea deal
February 4, 2015 | 10:10pmAn insurance company executive who conspired with the forme👍r head of a leading Jewish charity to fleece it of nearly $7 million renegotiated his plea deal Wednesday so he could...
🍸ꩲ Charity with ties to Sheldon Silver puts out a call for help
January 23, 2015 | 12:46amA charity with ties to disgraced Asse𓄧mbly 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
November 20, 2014 | 7:30pmThe nominal plotlines are already shaping up for the next♔ season of “The Real Lawmakers of Albany” — catfights over charter school🧔s, rent laws and multibillion-dollar bank-fine windfalls. Yet the...
Former head of the Metropolitan Cou൲ncil on Jewish Poverty sentenced
July 23, 2014 | 1:40pmA judge sentenced the disgraced former head of 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
July 17, 2014 | 2:52amBeing 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 Assembly Speaker... 𝕴
🀅 Elderly city Jewish charity ꦬthief sentenced to 4 months in jail
June 18, 2014 | 5:39amA Manhattan judge Tuesday sentenced an elderly crony of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s close pal William Rapfogel t𝄹o four months in jail for helping steal $9 million from the Metropolitan...
Rapfogeꦉl crony gui💜lty in theft from Jewish charity
May 6, 2014 | 12:32pmAn accomplice of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s former close pal William Rapfogel pleaded gu🐎ilty Tuesday for his role in the theft of $9 million from the Metropolitan Council on Jewish...
The rap on Rapfogel
April 23, 2014 | 9:40pmOn Wednesday, William Rapfogel pleaded guilty to grand larceny and other cha🎶rges in connection with a two-decade scheme in which the former head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty...
Speaker Silver pal Rap🅘fogel pleads guilty to $9M charity scam
April 23, 2014 | 11:54amAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's longtime pal pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing $9 million from a top Jewish charity he h🦂eaded by inflating insurance premiums over two decades. William Rapfogel, former...
William Rapfogel to💦 plead guilty for his role in $7M theft
April 22, 2014 | 10:07pmA longtime pal of Assembly Spea🍷ker Sheldon Silver is expected to plead guilty in Manhattan state Supreme Court Wednesday for his role in allegedly ཧstealing more than $7 million from...
Alleged Rapfogel accomplice cops to role in Met Council ꦜripoff
December 11, 2013 | 4:44pmThings were looking grim for a longtime pal of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver after an alleged accomplice copped a plea Wednes🐟day in a long-runnin💙g scheme to steal more than $7...
Met Council scandal gets closer to Speaker Silverꦯ
October 23, 2013 | 8:16pmThe probe into the repor💛ted theft of $5♕ million from the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty by a key friend and ally of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is raising new...
Albany's Rapfogel problem
October 7, 2013 | 11:08pmAlbany watchdogs are vowing to “follow the money” that the head of a major Jewish charity is accused of stealing from the group. Question is, are they willing to fol༺low...
Rapfogel's Albany enablers
October 3, 2013 | 11:14pmSo far, the recent scandal at a major Jewish charity has focused largely on its leader, Willie Rapfogel. But a new report from Citizens Uni꧂on makes clear that the poli🍷ticians...
Scandalized nonprofit receives federal ObamaCare contrac🀅t
October 3, 2013 | 1:44amA major city social-services agency engulfed in a multimillion-d🎉ollar charity scandal has been awarded federal contracts to sign up people🉐 for ObamaCare, The Post has learned. The Metropolitan Council on...
How campaign ♕‘reform’ invites corruption
September 27, 2013 | 11:17pmAdvocates of campaign-finance reform claim that th🌠e 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 &🐼amp; NY’s nonprofit nightmare 🏅
September 25, 2013 | 9:27pm‘Breathtaking” is the word that the state comptroller, Th🅺omas DiNapoli, used to describe the scheme of grand larceny that has now formally been laid against William Rapfogel, who — until...
Rapfogel is the latest scand♒al tꦉo envelop Silver
September 25, 2013 | 9:10pmFolk🎉s stealing from charities to line their pockets is an old story. Unfortunately for New Yorkers, so is folks funneling ill-gotten money to Albany in exchange for favors. This week,...