A New York rabbi will not be prosecuted for allegedly diverting federal money. Federal prosecutors said they would not prosecute Milton Balkany, who has admitted that some $700,000 in grant money was misdirected to pay for administrative and operating expenses at the Children’s Center of Brooklyn and at Bais Yaakov, a Jewish school in Brooklyn.
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