Moshe Rubashkin

Who is Moshe Rubashkin?

Moshe Rubashkin, an ultra-Orthodox Jew of the Lubavitcher hasidic movement, is a former chairman of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, a private, nonprofit social service organization in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, that receives $2 million per annum in state funding for community improvement projects. He was elected to a three-year term in January 2005, while on probation after having served 15 months in federal prison on bank fraud charges. In 2008, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison for illegal storage of hazardous waste at a textile mill he formerly owned, and remained in office as head of CHJCC while serving time in federal prison.