Jewish lawyer jailed for preying on survivors

Britain News.Net
Tuesday 19th February, 2008

In Israel, a lawyer has been sentenced to jail for defrauding survivors of the Holocaust.

Israel Perry, a 65-year-old lawyer, specialised in obtaining social security benefits for Jewish clients who had emigrated from Germany to Israel after the Second World War.

He assured them they would receive pension payments owed them by Germany as reparations.

He then told the survivors that he was holding back a portion of these payments for life insurance premiums, but instead was using the money for his own purposes.

For embezzling 135 million euros, Perry was sentenced to twelve years.

In addition to his jail sentence, he must also pay millions of euros in fines.

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