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US Government Cuts Grants to Jewish College, Citing Fraud [View all]
Source: Associated Press
US Government Cuts Grants to Jewish College, Citing Fraud
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — Mar 23, 2016, 1:53 PM ET
The federal government has barred a Jewish college in suburban Detroit from participating in a popular grant program after finding that thousands of students lived full-time in Israel and weren't taking classes through the school.
The Michigan Jewish Institute broke its fiduciary duty to the U.S. Education Department, which supplies Pell grants of up to $5,775 this year, and provided false information to an accrediting agency, the government said in a February letter obtained by the Detroit Free Press ( http://on.freep.com/1Ry8A0f ).
The school, referred to as MJI, declined to comment on the allegations, saying "that could be taken as politicizing the matter." The Free Press reported Wednesday it's affiliated with the local chapter of the Chabad-Lubavitch, an Orthodox Jewish group.
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"The evidence shows that almost 2,000 U.S. citizens, who were full-time Israeli residents, received Pell grants for ostensibly 'studying abroad' in Israel at Israeli institutions between 2006 and 2012," the Education Department's letter to Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov said. "Not a single one of them ever physically attended classes at MJI and none of them graduated from MJI."
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — Mar 23, 2016, 1:53 PM ET
The federal government has barred a Jewish college in suburban Detroit from participating in a popular grant program after finding that thousands of students lived full-time in Israel and weren't taking classes through the school.
The Michigan Jewish Institute broke its fiduciary duty to the U.S. Education Department, which supplies Pell grants of up to $5,775 this year, and provided false information to an accrediting agency, the government said in a February letter obtained by the Detroit Free Press ( http://on.freep.com/1Ry8A0f ).
The school, referred to as MJI, declined to comment on the allegations, saying "that could be taken as politicizing the matter." The Free Press reported Wednesday it's affiliated with the local chapter of the Chabad-Lubavitch, an Orthodox Jewish group.
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"The evidence shows that almost 2,000 U.S. citizens, who were full-time Israeli residents, received Pell grants for ostensibly 'studying abroad' in Israel at Israeli institutions between 2006 and 2012," the Education Department's letter to Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov said. "Not a single one of them ever physically attended classes at MJI and none of them graduated from MJI."
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-government-cuts-grants-jewish-college-citing-fraud-37869545
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