LillyBean Offline

113 Female from Homewood       2638
deepersti11
deepersti11: Unfortunately, this one is apparently a real thing. The link is here:

https://forward.com/news/438353/michigan-jewish-institute-fake-israeli-study-abroad-pell-grants

The referenced source is a reputable progressive American Jewish newspaper, the Forward. This wasn't a fake Israeli institute, however. It was a real Jewish school that started fraudulently "admitting" and "teaching" foreign students who never applied to come, who never came to the US, who never benefitted from this fraud, and who apparently had no idea that their personal information was being used to commit this fraud or even that it was being shared.

The place was raided by the Feds in 2015, lost its ACICS accreditation and was shut down in 2016, all of which were the proper things to do. https://forward.com/news/335141/troubled-michigan-jewish-institute-abruptly-closes-doors-after-government-t

In our world, there are Christian criminals and Muslim criminals and Jewish criminals and atheist criminals and lots of other criminals, and all of theme SUCK. This particular fraud ring, involving Jewish criminals, not only seems to have defrauded the US government, but has also done measurable harm to American Jews, Israeli Jews and Jewish institutions.

The whistleblower appears to have done a service for both the US taxpayer and the Jewish community.
4 years ago Report
0