The 5TJT paper out of the NYC area has just published a very detailed hard-hitting exposé-update related to the extremely serious problem of "frum" affinity fraud, in which Chabad-Lubavitch features in multiple roles:
1) The fraudster featured prayed at a prominent Lubavitch congregation, Chabad of the Five Towns, headed by a son in-law of the late Chabad-Lubavitch leader Moshe Kotlarsky. 2) Chabadskers were victims of it (among others). 3) 5TJT publisher Larry (ארי' לייב) Gordon, a Modern semi-Lubavitcher, has, to his great credit, exposed and pursued this (and related) cases, keeping pressure on, using his powerful platform to call for justice.
We have written here in the past about the great danger of the faux-Jewish notion, promoted by some (particularly among the neo-Chasidic as well as some of the old Hasidic, and some of the plain naive), that "every Yid's a big tzadik", and how such fantasies can lead to great danger, by making people more vulnerable to various scam artists and fraudsters.
Kudos to Larry Gordon for his great work in this area, on this issue. הלואי more people would follow him in this regard.
ארי' שאג, מי לא יירא - We encourage Larry (Leibel) Gordon to continue acting like a lion here, in pursuit of justice and restitution for the many victims. He is not buying the "new religion" of "every Yid's a big tzadik". He's been around the block enough times to know that it is also a scam.
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It makes sense that the perpetrator davened at a Chabad Shul. According to Chabad theology, as articulated by Manis Friedman, no Jew can be punished no matter what he does.
ReplyDeleteThis is a big "I told you so" moment for Mr. L. vindicating him from all all the skeptical comments in that previous post. I hope they all come back to see this.
ReplyDeleteKudos to him- and to Mr. Gordon for doing the right thing.
Right. In Lakewood there were no affinity crimes and Ponzi schemes over the past year... If you believe that then you are the prime target for such a scheme. You think that only "they" in Chabad have such issues but not "us". Who is easier to prey on than a guy like you?
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