FRN: 1699083239   FY: 2016
Basic Information
Applicant: CONGREGATION YETEV LEV - BAIS RUCHEL D'SATMAR Type:  School
Billed Entity: 16075716
470 Information
470#: 160014187  
471 Information
471#: 161038725  
SPIN: 143000677 Verizon Wireless (Cellco Partnership)
Service Type: Voice
Status: Denied Wave: 86 FCDL Date: 9/23/2020
Status Memo: DR1:Simon Goldbrener, owner of Gold Consulting and SGoldbrener LTD, plead guilty on February 12, 2020 to defrauding the E-rate program from 2010 to 2016. Specifically, Goldbrener plead guilty to holding himself out as a consultant who worked for educational institutions, supposedly helping schools to participate in the E-rate program by, among other things, holding a fair and open bidding process to select cost-effective vendors. Goldbrener admitted that he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by vendors to complete and file false E-rate documents that circumvented the competitive bidding process from at least in or about 2010 up to and including in or about 2016. Due to this guilty plea and admission to violating E-rate’s competitive bidding rules (47 C.F.R. § 54.503) USAC is denying funding to 16075716 - CONGREGATION YETEV LEV - BAIS RUCHEL D'SATMAR in funding years where 16075716 - CONGREGATION YETEV LEV - BAIS RUCHEL D'SATMAR used Goldbrener, Gold Consulting, or SGoldbrener LTD as your E-rate consultant.||DR2:Peretz Klein, Susan Klein, Ben Klein, and Sholem Steinberg plead guilty on February 12, 2020 to defrauding the E-rate program and admitted to using several entities to perpetuate the fraud. As outlined in a DOJ press release, these defendants held themselves out as vendors to schools participating in the E-rate program. Corporations controlled by these defendants requested over $35 million in E-rate funds, and received over $14 million in E-rate funds, from in or about 2010 to in or about 2016. Each of these defendants admitted that the companies they controlled did not in fact provide much of the equipment for which they billed E-rate. Due to this guilty plea and admission to violating E-rate’s rules regarding use and delivery of equipment and services (See 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.500, 54.507), USAC is denying all funding to FRNs associated with these SPINs because their relationship with one of these four defendants. 
Service Start Date (471): 7/1/2016 Service Start Date (486):
Current Commitment: $0.00 Payment Mode: NOT SET
Disbursed Amount:* Undisbursed: 0.00
Last Date of Service: Last Date to Invoice: 10/30/2017
 
    Original Request   Original Commitment  
Total Monthly Cost:     $700.00    $699.96  
Total Ineligible Monthly Cost     $0.00    $0.00  
Months of Service:    12    12  
Annual Recurring Charges:     $8,400.00     $8,399.52  
Estimated One Time Cost:     $0.00     $0.00  
Total One Time Ineligible Cost:     $0.00     $0.00  
Total One Time Cost:     $0.00     $0.00  
Estimated Monthly Cost:     $700.00     $699.96  
Estimated Annual Cost:     $8,400.00    $8,399.52  
Discount Percent:     50 %     50 %  
Requested Amount:     $4,200.00     $0.00