The Metropolitan Council On Jewish Poverty, the New York City Jewish community's scandal-plagued anti-poverty arm, has permenently and abruptly laid off five key staffers, including its head of social services.
Metropolitan Council On Jewish Poverty Permanently Lays Off 5 Key Staff Members
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
The Metropolitan Council On Jewish Poverty, the New York City Jewish community's scandal-plagued anti-poverty arm, has permenently and abruptly laid off five key staffers, including its head of social services, Amy Winarsky.
The layoffs happened yesterday.
A call to Winarsky's Met Council phone today was answered automatically with a message from an unidentified male saying that Winarsky "no longer works at Met Council."
At least $7 million was embezzled from the Met Council by several senior Met Council leaders, including two former CEOs, William E. Rapfogel and Rabbi David Cohen, over a period of two decades.
Rapfogel was Met Council's CEO for almost two decades and is a pillar of the Lower East Side Modern Orthodox community.
Cohen, who preceded Rapfogel as Met Council's CEO and who stayed on as a consultant after Rapfogel was hired, was CEO at Central Hatzolah, the haredi city-wide volunteer haredi EMS service, until he was removed when the Met Council scandal broke late last year.
The five staffers fired yesterday were terminated due to the Met Council's financial crisis, sources told FailedMessiah.com.
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