US Attorney Brother of Baltimore Business Owner Admits to Falsely Claiming His Brother’s Bank Balance and Activity as His Own in Order to Obtain a Federal Housing

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Press Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maryland

Calvin Abramowitz, age 48, of Lakewood, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to bank fraud. As part of his guilty plea, Abramowitz has been ordered to pay $209,036.

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Press Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maryland

Calvin Abramowitz, age 48, of Lakewood, New Jersey,

Lakewood, NJ is infamous for its' fraud. There is a religious community there that spends most of its' time searching for loopholes in government financial programs.

26% of the town lives below the poverty line. Because many of the men study and don't work. Thus the families qualify for benefits but somehow manage to live in million dollar homes.

Lakewood fraud: 159 granted amnesty, $2 million to be recovered​

26 Lakewood residents were arrested last year on welfare fraud charges. Ocean County prosecutors say those people — 13 married couples — stole benefits worth a total of more than $2 million that they did not qualify for by under-reporting their incomes.

LAKEWOOD - Public assistance scams in the township are both "widespread" and some of the "most sophisticated financial fraud" cases authorities have seen in recent years, one ranking law enforcement source said. Hidden income, fake applications and phony company owners were integral parts of a complex scheme several wealthy families used for years to fool the government into doling out nearly $2 million in aid reserved for the poorest citizens, federal and state investigators say.

The Breskins are being charged with second-degree theft by deception for allegedly collecting $585,662 in public assistance benefits they weren't entitled to, the prosecutor said in the statement.

Zalmen and Tzipporah Sorotzkin face the same charges for allegedly collecting $338,642 in Medicaid, food stamps, Section 8 housing subsidies and Supplemental Security Income, according to the prosecutor's office.

A Lakewood, New Jersey, insurance producer was charged today with conspiring to defraud several Blue Cross Blue Shield health care insurance affiliates of more than $10 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.

Jonas Knopf, 63, of Lakewood, was charged by complaint with one count of conspiring to defraud three health care Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) affiliates in Pennsylvania and the Washington, D.C., area.