{"id":77488,"date":"2015-10-22T19:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T03:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77488"},"modified":"2015-10-22T19:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T03:09:33","slug":"host-of-10-million-bat-mitzvah-sentenced-to-prison-for-stealing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77488","title":{"rendered":"Host of $10 Million Bat Mitzvah Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/host-of-a-10-million-bat-mitzvah-sentenced-to-jail-for-1162584662\">From 2013<\/a>: A body armor mogul who threw his daughter a $10 million bat mitzvah with performances from 50 Cent, Tom Petty, and Aerosmith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/16\/nyregion\/prison-for-founder-of-body-armor-company.html\" target=\"_blank\">was sentenced to 17 years in prison<\/a> for his role in swindling $200 million from his company and its investors.<\/p>\n<p>David H. Brooks, who founded DHB industries, the leading supplier of body armor to the US military, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/newyork\/press-releases\/2013\/david-h.-brooks-founder-and-former-chief-executive-officer-of-dhb-industries-inc.-sentenced-to-17-years-in-prison-for-insider-trading-fraud-lying-to-auditors-and-obstruction-of-justice\" target=\"_blank\">found guilty of securities fraud and conspiracy in 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During his trial, prosecutors said Brooks stole more than $6 million from DHB to purchase \u2014 in addition to the usual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/ceo_gets_flak_for_fete_hKg3yx7GvQlVQotNj9E0zK\" target=\"_blank\">prostitutes, shopping sprees, exotic trips, and luxury cars<\/a> \u2014 plastic surgery for his wife, a burial plot for his mother, $40,000 leather-bound invitations for his son\u2019s bar mitzvah, and a $101,000 belt buckle encrusted with diamonds, sapphires, and rubies. Brooks also used DHB to purchase tickets to sporting events and concerts, and then made more than $300,000 scalping them.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks also made millions off of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/business\/body-armour-firm-founder-david-h-brooks-jailed-for-17-years-for-us185m-stock-swindle\/story-e6frfm1i-1226698152263\" target=\"_blank\">falsely inflating the value of the bulletproof vests<\/a> that he sold to the government, helping the company to meet profit projections.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks spent most of the trial in jail, despite being initially released on bail, after the government discovered he was still hiding millions in San Marino and London (possibly $3.6 million in a safety deposit box, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2010\/01\/the-curious-case-of-david-h-brooks\" target=\"_blank\">carried in a giveaway bag from the $10 million bat mitzvah<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2013: A body armor mogul who threw his daughter a $10 million bat mitzvah with performances from 50 Cent, Tom Petty, and Aerosmith, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in swindling $200 million from his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77488\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77489,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77488\/revisions\/77489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}