NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
BY SPENCER KENT AND THOMAS MORIARTY
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
LAKEWOOD — A rabbi, his wife and multiple other couples were arrested Monday morning in a series of raids by federal and state authorities in a massive welfare fraud investigation, authorities said.
Those arrested included Rabbi Zalmen Sorotzkin, who runs the Congregation Lutzk synagogue, his wife, Tzipporah, and Mordechai Sorotzkin and his wife, Rachel, and Shimon and Yocheved Nussbaum, authorities said.
The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the arrests early Monday. A half-dozen couples were arrested in total during the coordinated raids, authorities said.
They are accused in a $1.3 million fraud scheme involving under-reported income to illegally obtain Medicaid, Section 8 housing assistance, food stamps, Social Security disability and Supplemental Security Income, authorities said.
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