According to a press release issued Monday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, a California federal district judge has sentenced Grand Rabbi Naftali Tzi Weisz, the Brooklyn, New York, Grand Rabbi of Spinka, to two years in prison for orchestrating a money-laundering tax evasion scheme. Weisz plead guilty last summer to a criminal conspiracy charge (see prior posting ), admitting to a scheme in which several of his charitable organizations solicited donations with secret promises to refund large percentages of the donations back to donors who deducted the entire amounts on their tax returns.
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