Filing: Quiros' unpaid rent may lead to rabbi layoffs
A religious education organization says it may have to reduce its staff of teaching rabbis unless it can collect money owed from a storage lease it had with the developer at the center of the Jay Peak EB-5 investor fraud scandal.
Miami Beach Community Kollel Inc. has filed a motion seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against that developer, Ariel Quiros.
The motion asks the judge presiding in the case to partially lift an assets freeze in place against Quiros so the organization can collect on the $24,627 it says it is due.
“The failure to receive the rent due is creating economic hardship and the Kollel may be forced to lay off teaching rabbis because of the failure,” the filing stated.
Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2018/01/21/filing-quiros-unpaid-rent-may-lead-rabbi-layoffs/