The former director of a program established to aid the
survivors of Nazi persecution has been sentenced in New York to eight years in
prison for his role in a $57 million fraud.
Semen Domnitser was sentenced Monday in federal court in
Manhattan. He was director for more than a decade of programs administered by
the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc.
The 55-year-old Domnitser was convicted in May after a
four-week trial of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and mail fraud. Prosecutors
said he was the highest ranking insider to participate in the fraud by
processing fraudulent applications to the conference. He was ordered to pay
restitution of $57.3 million.
The investigation began after the Claims Conference
suspected fraud in November 2009 and alerted authorities.
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