FRN: 1699109394   FY: 2016
Basic Information
Applicant: TALMUD TORAH TIFERES BUNIM Type:  School
Billed Entity: 11897
470 Information
470#: 134170001298921  
471 Information
471#: 161048116  
SPIN: 143037488 Simi Securities Inc.
Service Type: Data Transmission and/or Internet Access
Status: Denied Wave: 86 FCDL Date: 9/23/2020
Status Memo: DR1: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:     $3,000.00    $3,000.00  
Total Ineligible Monthly Cost     $0.00    $0.00  
Months of Service:    12    12  
Annual Recurring Charges:     $36,000.00     $36,000.00  
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:     $3,000.00     $3,000.00  
Estimated Annual Cost:     $36,000.00    $36,000.00  
Discount Percent:     90 %     90 %  
Requested Amount:     $32,400.00     $0.00