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Category Archives: David Rubin
Shaarey Zedek Overflowing
The shul has a great rabbi (the learned Jonathan Rosenberg) and an overflowing membership. It’s main problem is that its building isn’t big enough to house everybody. The right-wing breakaway a few years ago didn’t harm Shaarey Zedek. It just … Continue reading
Posted in David Rubin, R. George Lintz, Shaarey Zedek
Tagged administrative proceeding, capital management inc, illegal kickbacks, jonathan rosenberg, kickback scheme, lintz, orthodox jews, sherman oaks california
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David Rubin Donated To Al Sharpton
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged al sharpton, philadelphia trial, political action committee, public disclosure, race baiter, reverend al sharpton
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David Rubin Pleads Not Guilty
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged bid rigging, David Rubin, federal magistrate judge, michael mcgovern, wire fraud, wolmark
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Bloomberg Reports On David Rubin
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged bid rigging, bloomberg reports, conspiracy case, credit guarantees, criminal conspiracy, federal indictment, plug nickel
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The David Rubin Indictment
Click here for the .pdf. 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged benefactor, blow out, David Rubin, indictment, Spinka
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David Rubin Indicted
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged accountable individuals, christine varney, donald etra, federal grand jury, Hancock Park, investment contracts, municipal bond market, orthodox jew
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Business Activities Of Yavneh Board Chair David Rubin Scrutinized
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged allegheny county airport, favorable interest rates, federal investigators, federal prosecutors, municipal bond market, port authority of allegheny county
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David Rubin Profiled In The New York Times
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged David Rubin, financial losses, internal revenue service, mr rubin, municipal securities rulemaking board, wolmark
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David Rubin’s Black Box Deals
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, … Continue reading
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Tagged beverly hills california, financial advisory firm, life insurance co, low income housing, national life insurance, national life insurance co, u s treasury
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LA Jewish Community Links Apologize To David Rubin
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged apology, David Rubin, dr robert, jewish community, rome
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