FBI charges 17 over '$42m theft' of Holocaust survivor funds

[cowcommander]

Seventeen people have been charged in the US with the theft of $42 million (£26 million) from Holocaust compensation funds provided by the German government to help survivors. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara described the decade-long scheme at a news conference, saying the money was stolen in a "perverse and pervasive fraud" from the Conference on the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a not-for-profit group that disburses funds provided by the German government to individuals and organisations.

Six corrupt employees approved more than 5,500 fraudulent applications for aid, leading to millions of dollars being paid to people who did not qualify for help, Mr Bharara said.

The prosecutor portrayed the claims conference as a victim, saying the organisation had for six decades provided a "financial lifeline for thousands of survivors who suffered the worst of what World War II had to offer".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8122339/FBI-charges-17-over-42m-theft-of-Holocaust-survivor-funds.html

[lumpy]

1. To quote: the world is a vampire.

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[hedgehog]

2. I have the impression that the FBI has really been busy

recently closing down some bad criminals; fraud and prostitution rings. Maybe President Obama has told them to quit harassing Quaker Peace groups?