9 Quit Amid Scandal Over Holocaust Funds
Nine members of the German Jewish Council’s executive board resigned Sunday in the wake of a scandal earlier this year involving funds for Holocaust victims, the council’s leader said.
The council’s former president, the late Werner Nachmann, was suspected of illegally channeling nearly $17.2 million in interest from the funds to prop up his financially struggling businesses over a seven-year period.
Members of the executive board said the nine had been blamed for not properly overseeing Nachmann’s handling of the council’s financial affairs.
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