Posted on 08/16/2004 5:29:51 AM PDT by Liz
(Touro's) board members include politically connected developer Charles Kushner, and other prominent New Jersey developers and businessmen.......and plans to build a medical school in Livingston and enlisted former Sen. Robert Torricelli as its consultant on that project........ Golan Cipel was helping Touro with its medical school plans, and now federal investigators have made Touro part of their probe into the sex-and-blackmail scandal that last week all but ended the political career of Gov. James E. McGreevey.
The FBI is reviewing allegations that Cipel's attorneys asked McGreevey's administration to help fast-track the Manhattan-based college's application to open what would be the only private medical school in New Jersey.
Touro's attorney yesterday said college officials "are confounded" by the allegations and disavowed any role in the scandal. "Those statements were never authorized and we were unaware of them until we read them in the newspapers," said the college's lawyer, Franklyn Snitow.
In addition to Cipel, the medical school plan has brought together Kushner and Torricelli, two other controversial figures in Democratic politics.
Kushner, who has been charged with obstructing a separate federal investigation, is a Touro board member. He also had arranged with Touro officials to largely bankroll the creation of the medical school in his hometown of Livingston and, in return, hoped to see the institution named after his mother, Rae, who recently died..................
Torricelli, who did not seek re-election after being admonished in an ethics scandal, is representing Touro in its push for a medical school. Snitow said Torricelli was enlisted as "we prepare ourselves to go through the process."
Torricelli aide Sean Jackson said Torricelli is "providing general advice, fund-raising strategy and advice about opening a medical school."
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(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Oh my, all that federal tax money. The US Dept of Ed must also kick in a king's ransom to Touro. Then there's all that lovely Medicaid money for a medical school, and the extortion monies from the state to keeop Cipel quiet.
It does add up doesn't it?
EXCERPT Touro is no stranger either to politics, controversy or the headlines that go along with them. Less than a decade ago, the college got caught up in the messy divorce of then-Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.), who was the chairman of the House International Relations Committee. Gilman's estranged wife charged that she was given a consulting position with the college to reduce the congressman's alimony payments.
In 1994, the college's Pacific Community Institute was criticized by some members of Congress for lobbying efforts that benefited the junta that controls Myanmar,
the world's largest producer of illicit opium and heroin.
He says that it's the most corrupt institution he's ever seen - and he was a NYC Democrat campaign worker until 1980.
Corrupt? No argument here.
Any details?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/07/13/fund.raiser.charged/
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 Posted: 8:11 AM EDT (1211 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Real estate developer and political fund-raiser Charles Kushner of Livingston, New Jersey, was charged by federal prosecutors Tuesday with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and interstate promotion of prostitution
Where there is smoke there is fire. And with the "Torch" involved you can bet that this will be an inferno.
They never showed up for class, were just phantom students, but Touro collected all the government Pell Grant money as if they were actually teaching these people.
That's what prompted him to leave in disgust.
My son was at Touro for 2 semesters. He did get some grants for his studies as I remember. The classes were well taught and if we hadn't moved he would have continued on there.
I went there to help him enroll and it was a real school, not just some shell institution. (not to say this proves anything about your postulations...)
He went to the Brooklyn, Ave. J campus
Which campus was he on? Maybe he taught my son!
123rd Street
Well, I'm sure with all those tax dollars they were sucking up that they had an excellent staff and a great school.
It's too bad that other schools could not offer the same caliber of education as Touro.
But then other schools were not corrupt enough to ripoff Pell grants, or have Senators sucking up federal tax dollars for them (in exchange for hefty campaign donations).
When you're using your own money, it's hard to have the facilities that Touro has.
Using other people's money and ripping off the taxpayers makes it much, much easier.
Not likely. He'll probably land a $500,000 a year job as a lobbyist for gay rights groups.
I heard about this case a few days ago and have some speculative comments. I have a background in Russian Studies. Some Russian Jews are in the Russian Organized Crime structures. They do a lot of smart paper crimes that involve corruption of politicians. Some of these criminals are Jewish and get Israeli passports.
Cipel appears to be Russian Mafia. Lots of them are Israeli citizens--nothing against most good Israelis.
Cipel may have been extorting the governor who wanted to stay in the closet about his homosexuality.
Personally, I think these Russians are in Israel so they can sell weapons to terrorists in the Middle East and commit other crimes. Nick Berg--who got his head cut off in Iraq--was in business with an Iraqi who had ties to the Russian mafia in Philadelphia. This imigre claimed to have access to the White House and depicted himself as a patriot. Really he was in bed with these Russian gangsters. Unfortunately, a lot of them have Jewish names.
Interesting. Thanks for the insights.
These are closed communities so that outsiders are not privy to their activities until the feds nail them for committing crimes.
You say Cipel is Russian. Why? Because he was sucking up $110,000 tax dollars in a job for which he was unqualified and is now trying to blackmail the state of New Jersey?
He seesm to live very well for a guy without a job. That might be a clue, as well.
He can also take in big bucks from speaking engagements talking about what a "victim" he was.
He is an "Israeli citizen." His name sounds like a Russian Jewish name to me and a lot of the Russian criminals get Israeli passports. I think he is from somewhere in the former Soviet Union. I don't know. I wrote that I was speculating.
The complicated paper crime with the PEll grants to phantom Jews from Russia is classic Russian Organized Crime. At least somewhere in the former Soviet Union.
Did anyone ever read Gogol's Dead Souls or the Inspector General? These are Russian-style crimes.
These are typical of the kinds of crimes the Russian mafia do.
You or your Dad should call the FBI and tell this story about the no-show Russian jewish students. I hope you will follow through.
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