Arleare13
Arleare13 t1_itn9dc0 wrote
Reply to comment by AbazabaYouMyOnlyFren in Hasidic School to Pay $8 Million After Admitting to Federal Fraud by Jordie1010
That sounds like a bit much. Politely correcting you seems sufficient.
Arleare13 t1_itmunmr wrote
Reply to comment by AbazabaYouMyOnlyFren in Hasidic School to Pay $8 Million After Admitting to Federal Fraud by Jordie1010
It's not difficult to find that information, though. One of them was sentenced to two years in prison, the other got five years probation.
Arleare13 t1_itms58q wrote
Reply to comment by My_Name_ISNULL in Hasidic School to Pay $8 Million After Admitting to Federal Fraud by Jordie1010
Agreed, when posting you should be careful not to allow anger about a specific case to turn into broader hatred.
EDIT: Would the people downvoting this care to explain what’s so objectionable about this? Seems pretty reasonable to me.
Arleare13 t1_itmioi0 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Hasidic School to Pay $8 Million After Admitting to Federal Fraud by Jordie1010
> How are we expected to believe they will pay any restitution.
They have already paid their restitution. It says that in the third paragraph of the article you didn't read.
Arleare13 t1_itmc765 wrote
Reply to comment by bklyngaucho in Hasidic School to Pay $8 Million After Admitting to Federal Fraud by Jordie1010
Because the Supreme Court says we have to. If a state provides any funding to secular private schools, they have to provide funding to religious private schools also.
Arleare13 t1_itmblzb wrote
Reply to comment by AbazabaYouMyOnlyFren in Hasidic School to Pay $8 Million After Admitting to Federal Fraud by Jordie1010
It was a plea deal, basically. According to the article and the court papers, they agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement in exchange for admitting wrongdoing, paying back restitution to the government, and paying $8 million in fines. So they didn't give "some" of the money back, they gave back everything that the government intended to prove they stole, plus a fine of over twice that amount. They also agreed to oversight by a federal monitor going forward, which isn't a minor concession.
Arleare13 t1_itln0ji wrote
Reply to comment by honest86 in Do you guys think this could be possible one day? Rebuild Penn Station by Positive_Pinaple
Seems to be even weirder than that. According to the website it's a project of the National Civic Art Society, which is this weird Trump-affiliated non-profit devoted to "classical" architecture, at the exclusion of all other styles. They were in the news a couple of years back for instigating Trump's short-lived executive order banning all other styles of architecture for federal projects.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/arts/design/federal-building-architecture.html
Redoing Penn Station is a worthwhile area of discussion, but I'd be very suspicious of this organization's motives and affiliations.
Arleare13 t1_isqbuat wrote
Reply to Just made mozz sticks and they made me think about the ones Tracks had. I miss that spot by 169partner
Then you'll be glad to know that they reopened a block away.
Arleare13 t1_ito5mel wrote
Reply to comment by QCr8onQ in Hasidic School to Pay $8 Million After Admitting to Federal Fraud by Jordie1010
One person did get prison time, and another got five years probation.
But yeah, I think we all agree there needs to be much more effective oversight of these places if they’re to continue to operate.