David Rubin was the chair of the Yavneh Yeshiva school board. He also donated money to the notorious race-baiter and anti-Semite Al Sharpton:
White also asked Rubin to donate money to the 2004 presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton. Public disclosure of a contribution to Sharpton “would destroy me personally,” Rubin said, according to telephone transcripts [...]

News report:
David Rubin, founder of CDR Financial Products Inc., and two colleagues on Friday pleaded not guilty to criminal antitrust, wire fraud and other charges stemming from an alleged conspiracy to rig bids for municipal investment agreements and derivatives contracts for kickbacks.
A federal magistrate judge in Manhattan set bail for Rubin at far less than U.S. [...]

From Bloomberg.com:
Rubin, his investment advisory firm and two of its employees were named on Oct. 29 in a federal indictment in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York. The nine- count criminal conspiracy case alleges bid rigging and price fixing on investments that CDR brokered from 1998 to 2006. Rubin is contesting [...]

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I hear: The question that might be asked how will Yavneh do financially with its biggest benefactor busy with the indictment? Will there be fallout to any of the places David Rubin supported or individuals he associated with ala Spinka investigation which will be getting into full blow-out announcement in the [...]

The Los Angeles Times reports:

CDR Financial Products Inc. of Beverly Hills, its founder and two other employees of the advisory firm were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to rig bidding on investment contracts sold to local governments.
The indictment in U.S. District Court in New York alleges that CDR and [...]

Report:
This is about the subpoena CDR got the other day from the Feds about their dealings in regards to a airport:

Federal investigators subpoenaed Port Authority of Allegheny County documents related to a company that might have overcharged municipal agencies for its services, an agency official confirmed Wednesday.
Port Authority spokesman Jim Ritchie said the Department of [...]

Yid emails: "Luke, There must be something happening with David Rubin and all of these articles – it seems like every government agency from the SEC to the IRS to the Department of Justice is after him, not to mention all the states he did deals in. I can’t imagine that he is still out [...]

From Bloomberg, Nov. 2006:

In the Florida deal, a little-known government body called the Capital Trust Agency turned the work over to its advisers: Anchor National Life Insurance Co., a subsidiary of AIG; CDR Financial Products Inc., a Beverly Hills, California-based financial advisory firm; and underwriter JPMorgan. These companies and other middlemen extracted $12 million in [...]

Here’s my own stuff on David Rubin. From LA-Community.org: There was an article in The Community Links that inappropriately and incorrectly linked a leader in the Jewish Community, who has not been charged or found guilty of any crime, with others who have been so-charged or convicted. For this and other implications in the article [...]

Jane emails: "You have guts to take on David Rubin. He is one of the most powerful orthodox Jews in LA. Based on the research you have compiled it seems that he has his hands full. But – have you investigated the earlier issues he was involved with that involved “Guaranteed Investment Contracts” and his [...]