Disgraced former jail chaplain Leib Glanz may find out what it’s like behind bars after pleading guilty to the unholy act of scamming federal housing benefits.
Glanz — who was once infamously caught arranging a bar mitzvah at the Tombs for the son of a swindler — faces up to six months in prison for lying to the Department of Housing and Urban Development so he could illegally occupy a government-subsidized Williamsburg duplex.
The apartment had been approved for his brother, Menashe, 50, who was actually living in another home nearby.
Officials said the scheme -- which soaked taxpayers for about $220,000 -- was the largest individual case of tenant fraud ever uncovered.
“The statement was false, and I knew it was false,” he said in Manhattan federal court. “I knew it was wrong.”
Under a misdemeanor plea bargain, he agreed to repay about $36,000.
His brother pleaded guilty to a felony charge of theft of government funds. He faces up to 18 months in jail and agreed to repay more than $186,000.
Rabbi Glanz was a powerfully connected Correction Department chaplain until June 2009, when The Post reported that he arranged for a lavish six-hour bar mitzvah for the son of a fraudster at the Tombs, the downtown lockup for Rikers Island prisoners.
Glanz, who also worked at the Brooklyn Detention Center, was suspended for two weeks and soon ousted.
The scandal eventually led officials to uncover the housing scam.
NY POST
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