The Bar-Kochba Botach in this story is a Los Angeles Orthodox Jew. He owns www.botachtactical.com at 3423 West 43rd Place Los Angeles, CA 90008.
His brother is Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
Bar-Kochba Botach is not accused of any wrong-doing in this story.
The Efraim E. Diveroli in this story used to be Orthodox.
Here’s the New York Times story:
YOUNG EXECUTIVE David M. Packouz, 25, was AEY’s vice president. He is a licensed masseur.
Efraim E. Diveroli
…Michael Diveroli, Efraim’s father, had incorporated the company in 1999, when Efraim was 13. For several years, a period when the company appeared to have limited activity, Michael Diveroli, who now operates a police supply company down the street from AEY’s office, was listed as the company’s sole executive.
In 2004, AEY listed Efraim Diveroli, then 18, as an officer with a 1 percent ownership stake.
The younger Diveroli’s munitions experience appeared to be limited to a short-lived job in Los Angeles for Botach Tactical, a military and police supply company owned by his uncle, Bar-Kochba Botach.
Mr. Diveroli cut off an interview when asked about Botach Tactical. Mr. Botach, reached by telephone, said that both Michael and Efraim Diveroli had briefly worked for him, but that after seeing the rush of federal contracts available after the wars began, they had struck out on their own.
“They just left me and took my customer base with them,” he said. “They basically said: ‘Why should we work for Botach? Let’s do it on our own.’ ”
