GERMAN HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS STOLEN IN $CAM

By Noor Al Haqiqa

Snippits and Snappits

October 3, 2012

Hungary is on to something when it decided to hold the Jewish organizations accountable for the disbursement of funds to survivors of the German camps. In the past I have posted on various thefts by the Zionists of survivors own savings. Now we have this, the theft of great sums from the money extorted from the German people.

For all the squawking that is hitting the MSM over Hungary’s ceasing payments to  holocaust survivors, it is interesting how stories of theft and outright fraud seem to be contained only in Jewish media and do not make it to gentiles’ Zionist controlled media outlets. This issue of theft of funds allotted to various victims of the WW2 is not new and has been going on for decades, as has been the creation of false identities to collect these ill gotten extorted gains.

“An ex-employee of the organization that pays reparations to victims of the Nazis pleaded guilty yesterday to scamming $550,000 from that fund as part of a massive, $57 million fraud on the German government.” ~ New York Post

Imagine the ire of the German people should they get a whiff of this theft of their tax money!

Swiss banks holding the deposits of the Jews in WW2 have made it almost impossible for their descendants to rightfully claim their just savings. But that is another story.

Thousands of Holocaust survivors were defrauded out of $57 million by a ring of Claims Conference employees and other individuals. Why is there no mention that the German people and those from whom this money was extorted were also defrauded? Is it perhaps because only the Jewish victims matter and the rest are merely fair gentile game to be bled dry?

The FBI is charging that, in exchange for kickbacks, those insiders, who were supposed to process and approve only legitimate applications, have knowingly approved nearly 5,000 fraudulent applications, resulting in payouts to applicants who did not qualify for the programs.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara told reporters: “As I said when the initial charges in this case were announced, my office, working with our partners at the FBI, would not stop until we brought to justice those who are alleged to have stolen more than $57 million from the Claims Conference, thereby diverting money intended for survivors of the Holocaust.”

Applications for disbursements through these funds are processed by employees of the Claims Conference’s office in Manhattan, and the employees are supposed to confirm that the applicants meet the specific criteria required for payments.

An employee of the New York based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the “Claims Conference”) pleaded guilty to defrauding her employers out of $550,000.

Zlata Blavatnik, 65, a Russian immigrant who lives in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to the charge that she had “produced falsified documents for myself” and “helped others in the same office” to make fraudulent “reparation” payments. Blavatnik claims she joined in the scheme while working as a clerk at the Manhattan office of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Manhattan federal Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman warned Blavatnik, 65, that she faced up to 40 years imprisonment for conspiracy and mail fraud.

A total of 31 people including five former employees of the Claims Conference, which administered the programs systematically defrauded the Article 2 Fund and Hardship Fund programs and have been charged so far in the investigation, according to the FBI, which has seen the total amount of the fraud increase from $42 million when the first defendants were busted in November 2010.

According to the feds, 10 former employees ~ allegedly led by former Claims Conference director Semen Domnitser ~ “systematically” ripped off the organization for more than a decade before suspicions arose in 2009.

The scam was pulled off with the help of accomplices, some apparently unwitting, who paid kickbacks after getting recruited through ads in Russian-language newspapers.

The Claims Conference a not-for-profit organization provides monthly $400 payments to impoverished Holocaust survivors who evacuated the cities in which they lived and were forced to become refugees, a one-time $3,500 payment. The organization provides assistance to victims of Nazi persecution and supervises and administers several funds that make reparation payments to victims including “the Hardship Fund” and “the Article 2 Fund,” both of which are funded by the German government.

According to authorities, members of the conspiracy submitted fraudulent applications for people who were not eligible. Many of the recipients of fraudulent funds were born after World War II, and at least one person was not even Jewish.

The Claims Conference first suspected the fraud in December 2009, and immediately reported their suspicions to law enforcement, which conducted a wide-reaching investigation, resulting in unsealing the charges last October, 2011.

Some conspirators recruited other individuals to provide identification documents, such as passports and birth certificates, which were then fraudulently altered and submitted to corrupt insiders at the Claims Conference, who then processed those applications. When the applicants received their compensation checks, they kept a portion of the money and passed the rest back up the chain.

The fraud involved doctored identification documents in which the applicant’s date and place of birth had been changed. The fraud also involved more sophisticated deception, including altering documents that the Claims Conference obtains from outside sources to verify a person’s persecution by the Nazis. Some of the detailed descriptions of persecution in the fraudulent Article 2 Fund applications were completely fabricated.

From the investigation to date, the Claims Conference has determined that at least 3,839 Hardship Fund applications appear to be fraudulent. These applications resulted in a loss to the Hardship Fund of approximately $12.3 million.

The Article 2 Fund makes monthly payments of approximately $400 to survivors of Nazi persecution who make less than $16,000 per year, and either (1) lived in hiding or under a false identity for at least 18 months; (2) lived in a Jewish ghetto for 18 months; or (3) were incarcerated for six months in a concentration camp or a forced labor camp.

From the investigation to date, the Claims Conference has determined that at least 1,112 Article 2 Fund cases it processed have been determined to be fraudulent. Those cases have resulted in a loss to the Claims Conference of approximately $45 million.

Manhattan federal Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman on Tuesday informed Blavatnik that she was facing a possible 40 years in jail for conspiracy and mail fraud.

But in an unusual move, terms of Blavatnik’s plea deal are not public, and the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office wouldn’t release a copy ~ suggesting that Blavatnik is cooperating with authorities in a bid for leniency. 

Everything considered, the actions of Hungary are thoroughly justified and other nations would do well to follow suit and investigate where their hard earned money truly ends up.

The trial of suspects in the now nearly $60 million fraud case at the Claims Conference has been set for Jan. 14, 2013.

I doubt if this will make the front page news in Germany, don't you? 

SOURCES:

JEWISH PRESS STAFF REPORTER

FRAUD CLERK GUILTY

CLAIMS CONFERENCE MUST APOLOGIZE FOR FRAUD COMMITTED BY INSIDERS AGAINST HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS