LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LEIB GLANZ, a former New York City Department of Corrections chaplain who conspired with his brother MENASHE GLANZ to defraud the government of more than $220,000 in federal housing subsidies, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 45 days in prison.
He previously pled guilty to making false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) with the intent to defraud and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel. MENASHE GLANZ previously pled guilty to theft of government funds and was sentenced to six months in prison last week by Judge Castel.
