One day after four Lakewood couples were arrested for fraudulently underreporting their incomes in order to illegally take advantage of more than $1 million in state and federal benefits, township phones have been ringing off the hook, with hundreds of area residents requesting advice on how to avoid being arrested for public assistance fraud.
The investigation was initiated by the FBI and the New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller, later growing to include the Social Security Administration, the New Jersey Department of Treasury and the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
More arrests are expected to take place, possibly as soon as early Wednesday morning, reported NJ.comhttp://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/06/more_arrests_coming_in_lakewood_di_ionno.html
Complaints in the impending arrests involve fraudulent activity that has been taking place for as long as five years and Monday’s arrests appear to be just the tip of the iceberg.
“We are sending a message to this community that the party is over,” said one law enforcement source.
According to the Asbury Park Press (http://on.app.com/2tVVsyG), a law enforcement source who agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity said that dozens of people have called the Ocean County Social Services office asking to discontinue their public assistance benefits or to revise the income information they had previously submitted.
Millions of dollars in public assistance have allegedly been fraudulently distributed in the Lakewood area, said the source.
According to authorities, the investigation into financial irregularities in Lakewood has been ongoing for three years.
According to authorities, the investigation into financial irregularities in Lakewood has been ongoing for three years.
Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles said that he was disturbed by the recent arrests and that there are many people in the town who are truly in need of financial assistance.
“I have a waiting list of Section 8 vouchers of maybe 2,000 families that really need it,” said Coles. “I hate to see things like that.”
Complaints in the impending arrests involve fraudulent activity that has been taking place for as long as five years and Monday’s arrests appear to be just the tip of the iceberg.
“We are sending a message to this community that the party is over,” said one law enforcement source.
According to the Asbury Park Press (http://on.app.com/2tVVsyG), a law enforcement source who agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity said that dozens of people have called the Ocean County Social Services office asking to discontinue their public assistance benefits or to revise the income information they had previously submitted.
Millions of dollars in public assistance have allegedly been fraudulently distributed in the Lakewood area, said the source.
According to authorities, the investigation into financial irregularities in Lakewood has been ongoing for three years.
According to authorities, the investigation into financial irregularities in Lakewood has been ongoing for three years.
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“We are sending a message to this community that the party is over,” said one law enforcement source.
"Die Juden sund Unser Umgluck!"
Just substitute the words "the Jews" for the words "this community" and you'll get the real picture. Shades of Germany 1933.
I have read the charges and they are bogus. Some may have deposited money in their account, but it wasn't their income and they immediately transferred it to it;'s rightful owner. Others have borrowed money from a G'mach, and the government considers that income, which it isn't.
The Shmear Ledger reports that one of the couples arrested live in a mansion valued at over $800,00. That's fake news. It isn't a mansion and it isn't even owned by the residents. It's "value" is grossly overstated. It cost a little over $200,000, but since it houses a shul, Jews flocked to that neighborhood and the "value" skyrocketed.
That same house were it to be in, say Eldersburg, Maryland would go for under $400,000.
If the goyim would get their wish and all the Jews would evacuate their "mansions" in Lakewood, what do you think their property would be worth then? A house on a 40' x 100' lot in middle of nowhere, 60 miles from New York, 70 miles from Philadelphia, and your next door neighbor is some dude called something like Billy Bob Butler? Maybe $65,000, which is more than houses in Lakewood were going for before the Jews moved in.
To all those who pile on the Yeshiva people may I suggest, "Ask not for whom the bells tolls, it tolls for thee."
I call for all Jews, of all stripes to get together, because unless we do you can expect Krystalnacht 21st century style very soon.
June 28, 2017 at 7:43 PM--You equating america to germany in the 1930s and 40s shows you are mentally unstable,you are a despicable person what a shame you are to decent human beings.
7,43%%%%%
you say get together. but do what? Get out of here that's what, read the signals, same in Westminster England, they're promoting a Jew Hate conference for two days in the government office no less, on the hand you can make another asifa and another one afer that and talk about Israel bashing and nothing else.
truthbetold, you are are so right -- we must come together!
Hey little aish I hear you CUM on your own very well
To Jancsibacsi at 7:43PM I have not resorted to ad hominem rhetoric and I shall not do so now.
No, America is not like Germany of the 1930's and 1940's.
Yet.
But Germany in the 1920's wasn't like Germany of the 1930's and 1940's either. The Nazis capitalized on the intense hatred of Jews exhibited by some Germans and the German nature of obedience to social order.
The United States has some Anti-Semitic citizens, too, and some of them are in law enforcement. Can you deny that? How else could you explain the statement,' “We are sending a message to this community that the party is over,” said one law enforcement source.'
Such sentiments must be identified as anti-Semitic and must not be allowed to be expressed in polite society and certainly not by law enforcement officialdom. Let me remind you, kind sir, that acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no virtue.
No, America today is not like Germany of the 1930's and 1940's. It is like Europe of the 1920's that spawned such Jewish luminaries as Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Viktor Frankl and Stefan Zweig to name a few. All it took was one fanatic to turn it into Germany of the 1930's.
Looking back at history we can say that had the Nazi party with their insane claim that Jews were responsible for all the ills of the world, been opposed more vehemently, they would never have come to power.
Did you ever think about why, of all the residents in Lakewood were only the Jewish ones targeted. Are there no other groups in Lakewood that might be benefiting from government assistance under false pretenses. Those minorities who clean our houses are they reporting that income. You think?
You have charged me will being mentally unstable and a despicable person. I think that the moderator should not have allowed that comment to stand.
My take it may look wrong but what they did was technically legal
Oh and by the way u werent/arent stealing the so called "governments" money you sick creepy bastards
Time to end all programs
4 everyone.
June 28, 2017 at 11:42 PM---For your informating the sending message part is due to the overwhelming sec8 and other goodies that that community gets and so do other very religious communities like bp willi monsey kj so dont delude yourself if its anyones fault it is our religious communities fault the most they bought this on themselfs.
To jancbacsi at 11:31 AM:
Come, let us reason together. You seem to feel that the "sending message" part is appropriate considering "the overwhelming sec8 and other goodies that the community gets". And you know this to be the fact Lakewood Jewish residents are the recipients of such largess exactly how? I live in Lakewood and I assume that you don't, otherwise you wouldn't be as sorely mistaken as you are.
Do you know that no section 8 vouchers are allotted in Lakewood, and have not been for many years now? Mayor Coles of Lakewood issued a statement yesterday that there are over 2,000 applications for section 8 that are waiting in line for the section 8 enrollment to be opened. The fact is that there are relatively few section 8 slots allocated to Lakewood in the first place, and that the ones in Lakewood receiving housing assistance are a minority of a minority. Some of the hapless individuals caught in yesterday's net were targeted because they were one of the "lucky" few.
Mine is one of the 10,000 Charedi families who live in Lakewood. What are you implying? That we are all rich and therefore not in need of assistance? Tell that to the 500+ families that regularly receive care packages from Tomchei Shabbos. They would be glad to learn that they are rich.
I don't know all of the people who were brought into custody in Lakewood in the last few days, but I know one couple. I also know the Sekulener Rebbe, and I would sooner believe that the Rebbe raped more woman than Bill Cosby did, than believe that this accused couple in Lakewood committed a crime.
You have not addressed any of issues that I raised. you merely repeated the tired old canard that has been used against the Jews since antiquity, "[they] b[r]rought this on themselves." You did not address the fact that Lakewood is now a "sanctuary town" a veritable haven for illegal aliens from south of the border. You think none of them receive financial aid from the government? You think that all the people who work in the bodegas and in various eateries on Second Street report all their income? Why have none of them been the subject of an FBI investigation?
But you weren't satisfied, with disparaging only the Jewish religious communities in Lakewood. No, you had to include other "very religious communities like "bp willi monsey kj" in your "J'accuse". As you so sweetly put it, "they bought [sic] this on themselves."
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you have a bone to pick with very religious Jews in general.
Which might be why you approach these events with Schadenfreude rather than with alarm.
June 29, 2017 at 1:13 PM--What you are writing here in total baloney illigal aliens
should not get welfare if they do then it is 100 per cent wrong 2 wrongs dont make a right,i can tell you this in bp on my block alone i know for a fact 75 per cent get sec.8 food stamps etc.i know a few who get it over 30 years alreay i can tell you such unbeleivable stories that your head would spin so dont lecture me i know it first hand you cant tell me anything i dont know.
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