Holocaust Fraud

[Jos]

Holocaust Fund Scammer Faces 40-Year Sentence

A Brooklyn woman pleaded guilty to her role in a fraud ring that embezzled $57 million from a group that helps compensate victims of Nazi persecution.
Zlata Blavatnik, a former clerk for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, faces up to 40 years in prison after admitting to her role in the conspiracy that approved nearly 5,000 fraudulent applications in exchange for kickbacks.
The 64-year-old pleaded guilty Tuesday.
Blavatnik and her co-conspirators were accused of submitting claims to the conference's "hardship fund" with falsified information. That fund, sponsored by the German government, pays eligible applicants $3,500 for fleeing Nazi persecution.
"We have identified numerous applications for payment under the hardship fund in which the applicants' names and social security numbers are valid, but where the dates of birth were doctored to make the applicant appear to be born during or before World War II," FBI Special Agent Carrie Fisher said in her deposition.
The claims conference determined that 3,839 of its hardship fund applications appear fraudulent, causing about $12.3 million in losses for the fund.

Courthouse News Service

 

[Tsalagi]

It's a shame she can't serve the sentence in Treblinka!

 

[William Joyce]

The holocaust itself is a fraud. You can't defraud a fraud.