Cipel demanded McGreevey setup a Touro medical school in New Jersey as part of the deal to keep Cipel quiet about McG's homosexuality. The move precipitated McG's departure from office.
Touro apparently wanted medical school credentials to get its greedy hands on billions of federal Medicare/Aid monies.
One of Touro's board of directors is felon and ex-con Charles Kushner who went to jail for business and political fraud. Kushner is the individual who introduced Cipel to McG in Israel at the time McG went on a politician’s obeisance tour. Kushner, a wealthy developer, and McG's largest donor, was building apartments in Israel, in the same town where Cipel lived.
Ex-Sen Robert Torricelli also worked for Touro through his company, Rosemont Associates----Torricelli was forced to resign from office after damaging news reports of his Senatorial conduct.
This slimy collection of fakes, frauds and felons may have awarded phony degrees to fake doctors who may be operating on you, or your loved ones.
He complained for more than two years to the administration about what was going on, and the administration softsoaped him - assuring him that they were aware of the problem and working on the irregularities.
Then when he was actually asked to sign off on documents he knew were fraudulent and he complained to the administration and he was told to "just sign them to make everyone happy", he (in my opinion unwisely) quit and (wisely)reported them to the police.
This investigation was years in the making.
I am shocked. This cannot happen in a liberal paradise like NYC...........
The only thing at issue is a physician's assistant diploma, not a doctor's med school diploma.
Doesn't look like Touro has a med school, the highest degree they offer in "health care administration" is a masters in management in various areas.
So the only possibility here is that you have an incompetent PA out there - who should be working under doctor's orders anyhow. As I said, not great, but not as bad as you feared.
I wish I had known. I could use an extra degree or two.
He tells me:
(1) The Reagan Department Of Education launched an investigation into Touro's finances in the 1980s.
(2) This Baron guy is only part of a much larger puzzle.
(3) The real money that Touro was making was not Baron's diploma scam, but in packing the school with Russian immigrants in the 90s. Why? Because of their still-lingering status as "asylum seekers" rather than being standard immigrants, Touro was able to get Federal money to pay their inflated tuition. Thousands of Russians signed up for classes and for room and board and were reimbursed by the feds through various programs - despite never setting foot on campus.
Also Touro sited its campus buildings and annexes to maximize the amount of TAP aid to private colleges from the New York State government - a program designed to promote secondary education in underprivileged neighborhoods.
These scams involved them with the Russian underworld, who brought them fresh "asylum-seekers" in return for a cut of the Federal money.
(4) The Golan Cipel connection comes from the relationship between Russian gangsters in the US and Russian gangsters in Israel.
Certain Israelis came and went at Touro that my father's Israeli friends told him were up to no good.
(5) My father's assessment is that Baron is a fall guy, and that Touro is "cooperating" in bringing him down to prevent further digging. My father also believes that Baron may be too fearful of underworld retaliation - as he says: "I never took money from those guys so I never had to interact with those guys - Baron may have serious reasons to be scared."
Lots of International Students...LOTS....