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Moshe Rubashkin (born 1958) is an American businessman.
An ultra-Orthodox Jew of the Lubavitcher hasidic movement, he is a former chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council (CHJCC), a private, nonprofit social service organization in Crown Heights, Brooklyn,[1] New York, that receives $2 million per annum in state funding for community improvement projects. He was elected to a three-year term in January 2005,[2] while on probation after having served 15 months in federal prison on bank fraud charges.[3] In 2008, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison for illegal storage of hazardous waste at a textile mill he formerly owned, and remained in office as head of CHJCC while serving time in federal prison.[4]
- ^ "Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Organization Profile". New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal. Archived from the original on March 5, 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
- ^ "Results of Community Council Elections". Chabad.info.
- ^ Thrush, Glenn (March 10, 2005). "Felon picked as leader". New York Newsday.
- ^ Dwoskin, Elizabeth (June 18, 2009). "Beaten in Court, Rubashkins Battle to Keep Crown Heights Religious Leadership". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on April 14, 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2010.