Where Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto's Charity's Money Goes, Part 2

"Kabbalist" to the stars Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto's Shuva Israel charity is tasked with helping poor people and working in Jewish education. Even so, it spends what seems to be an inordinate amount of money on Pinto and his family, buying them luxury jewelry and watches and homes. And when Pinto's wife gave birth to healthy twins, it paid for private nurses to look after them at $700 per shift.

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto

Part 1: Where Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto Spent His Charity's Money.

Comments

[Ivan A.]

Rabbi Pinto is a crook it seems. He is talking about missing millions of dollars -Doesnt seem like anyone will have to look very far to see where the millions went he claims is missing. His clothes, his vacations, baby nurses and all of the rest of this crazy looking expenses. Wow this Rabbi Pinto is a real scam artist following in the footsteps of others. Wow wow wow.

[Ivan A.]

Just noticed in the notes that George Klein arranged the nurses. George Klein is 1 of the head Jewish republicans in the US can George Klein also be involved in the Pinto scam. This oddball Rabbi must make tens of millions a year.
http://www.rjchq.org/About/biodetail.aspx?id=1194eef1-9b18-4c56-8ca0-fa880748da41

[Not Simple]

$58 per hour. Does anyone know what the going rate is? It does sound excessive.

[Bench Kvetcher]

I want this job.

[seymour]

is the baby ill does it need nurses care/

If not get a nanny.

or maybe their is a kick back scam going on and pinto or whoever is getting cash back

[Barry]

The Sefardim are rank amateurs when it comes to self enrichment.

See the photo below of the little apartment in which the first Boyaner Rebbe of the Freidman/Ruzhiner clan lived in at the time when most Jews lived in absolute poverty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Home_of_the_Boyaner_Rebbe.jpg

[Elie]

No one is forced to go to this Rav.

[steven eppel]

pinto is a clown.he's not a rav

[Jake]

Who actually paid for the nursing services?
Do these expenses appear on the books of Pinto's organization?

If these are self employed RNs it is a reasonable price in NY.

[seymour]

If these are self employed RNs it is a reasonable price in NY.

Posted by: Jake | January 05, 2012 at 08:51 AM

that is not the issue the question is why was this service needed?

[HASC Concert]

Shmaryau,

Can you give us a report next week of HASC concert this Sunday.

Which Kahn/Stern spoke, how many family members got free front row seats etc.

[yechi ben levitas]

ok now shmarya,lets start looking at olmert, over,in Israel. See todays indictments.Olmert denies and denies and denies as does his PERSONAL star shula who also denies and denies and denies. olmert was the pm of israel, israel most useless prime minister, think lost lives in the lebanon war.if the situation gets even tougher for olmert, this denier will probably denie There ever was a war in lebanon.if pinto is a crook then let the law proceed, but here we are dealing with the recent figurehead of ISRAEL. olmert made a laugghjng stock of his nation. when i raised this with an israeli org promoting a recent tour of his, i was quietly threatened to shut up. so now i shall shut up. still please take a peek mr F M.

[yechi ben levitas]

pinto is bareley out of his own nappies, the son in law of an agentinian rabbi and some historical claim to some sort of pedigree.His followers beleive, good for them. its the old old,saying, A fool and his money are easily parted. May his children be brought up to be menchedick and enjoy good health.

[Waiting4Moshiach]

You cant have it both ways. If the sephardim are free to live like they do and call Rabbi Pinto their Rav, then heimische yidden should be able to keep them out of their schools until they rise to our level. Whether we are talking about dark ones in our apartment buidlings or men and women on buses or sephardim in our schools, sometimes the best solution is to keep our distance and be separate. My Rav says that when Moshiach comes everyone will know his place and we will all learn together but until then we need to do things the way we have always done them going back to chazal.

[Confused]

that is not the issue the question is why was this service needed?

I guess that is something you have to ask the wife, after all we are talking about twins and maybe it was a little overwhelming. But then again, who cares since she is a women and they don't count, only the husband counts, hence the outrage.

[Dovid]

So this leak comes from Ofer Biton?

[Dovid]

Ofer Biton is one of the people accused by Pinto of stealing all his money.

[Dovid]

along with Ron Torossian. No suprise that more documents trying to discredit Pinto would come from Torossian and his buddy

[bassmaster]

Good for him. If his supporters want him to live large, then thats wonderful.

[ah-pee-chorus]

in keeping with the charitys stated goals, perhaps these nurses were very poor and while they were working pintos wife was providing them an education in judaism.
yeah, that oughta work.

[who knows]

I wonder whether or not his supporters know how liberally their spiritual mentor spends their donations?

[Robert Wisler]

"until they rise to our level...."

My day is not complete until I see a statement like this from W4M! Thanks again for the biting parody!

[Robert Wisler]

Love the concept too! Keeping the inferior Sephardim separate "going back to Chazal"!!! What a great religion this haredi "Judaism" is. Same crap as Sunni/Shit Islam!

[Robert Wisler]

(oops -- that was "Shi'ite Islam" --- Freudian slip....).