• Search Loading

Home   >   News   >   Featured News   >   Woodmere Man Admits Stealing $634K from Temple

Woodmere Man Admits Stealing $634K from Temple

By on February 1, 2013
Isaac Zucker

Isaac Zucker

A Woodmere lawyer has admitted to stealing more than $634,000 from a local synagogue by wiring cash from the congregation’s accounts into his own over a five-year period.

Isaac Zucker pleaded guilty Friday at Nassau County court to grand larceny.

Prosecutors said that the 49-year-old man stole the money from the Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere between June 2011 and his election to treasurer in 2006.

As treasurer, he was responsible for paying bills for and making deposits and used his access to steal the cash by wiring it into his law practice’s business account and writing himself checks from the temple’s accounts.

The theft was discovered when checks meant to pay the synagogue’s bills started bouncing. Zucker doctored bank statements to make it appear that a $50 balance in one of the synagogue’s account had a balance of $200,000.

He faces up to seven years in prison when he is sentenced April 9.

Leave a comment

Powered by Facebook Comments

Timothy Bolger Timothy Bolger (454 Posts)

Timothy Bolger is the News/Web Editor for the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories for the paper since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news daily online with longer, sometimes investigative features in the monthly print edition. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how Lawn Guyland is screwed up.