The CEO of Jewish ambulance service Chevra Hatzalah resigned
on September 28, days after the reported that the Metropolitan Council on
Jewish Poverty had dumped him as a consultant.
Rabbi Dovid Cohen’s ongoing consulting position with the Met
Council ended on the same day the not-for-profit group fired executive director
William Rapfogel, who has since been charged with defrauding the charity in a
$5 million kickback scheme.
The New York Times reported September 26 that Cohen was the
unnamed co-conspirator named in the criminal complaint filed against Rapfogel
on September 24, citing two unnamed sources.
Chevra Hatzalah’s board accepted Cohen’s resignation on
September 29, according to David W. Shipper, a board member of Hatzalah and its
attorney. Shipper said that Cohen did not say why he was resigning.
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