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   Bullshit   
      
   "V"  wrote in message   
   news:XKydnRk4h7FvcS3VnZ2dnUVZ_qHinZ2d@comcast.com...   
   > Shocking revelation in the London Jewish Chronicle (w/Finkelstein's   
   > comment)   
   >   
   > NGF comments: In The Holocaust Industry I reported on the corporate   
   > salaries of the Holocaust hucksters administering the Holocaust   
   > compensation monies. For example, I wrote that "While elderly Holocaust   
   > survivors languish without medical coverage, the current [2001] annual   
   > salary and benefits of Gideon Taylor, executive vice-president of the   
   > Claims Conference, total $275,000." It seems that the Jewish Chronicle has   
   > finally caught on that there's something rotten in Hucksterland. I once   
   > attended a Holocaust compensation conference where Taylor was speaking. He   
   > delivered the standard Holocaust huckster bar mitzvah speech: "We all know   
   > that the monetary compensation for survivors was symbolic; it was really   
   > about justice." Afterward I called out from the audience: "Would you mind   
   > telling us what is your symbolic salary?" Ignoring my query, he abruptly   
   > packed his bags and left. The keynoter for the afternoon session was pro   
   > bono Holocaust huckster Burt Neuborne. Seeing him enter the hall, I called   
   > out, "Hey Burt, how're you doing?" Apparently not thrilled by my presence,   
   > he mouthed "F*** you." I was aghast that a distinguished graduate of   
   > Harvard Law School and a former National Director of the ACLU should use   
   > such foul language. Nonetheless I looked forward to his presentation.   
   > Alas, he left before delivering it. I wonder why. Were this not comical   
   > enough, the time-sheet for Neuborne's latest $4,000,000+ fee claim lists   
   > "2 hours" (at $700 per hour) for delivering the speech that he never   
   > delivered!   
   >   
   > In all fairness the talents of the Taylors and Neubornes of this world   
   > aren't easy to come by: not everyone could steal monies earmarked for   
   > dying Holocaust survivors - just as not everyone could have done   
   > experiments on twins at Auschwitz.   
   >   
   > Editor's note: for more recent press coverage on the shakedown of   
   > survivors see here.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > The man on the left earns $437,811 a year handling Shoah claims. So why   
   > are so many survivors pleading poverty?   
   >   
   > 19/05/2006 | By Jenni Frazer and Simon Rocker   
   >   
   > The Jewish Chronicle   
   >   
   > The international body primarily responsible for distributing compensation   
   > to Holocaust survivors is under pressure to explain its spending policies   
   > and the remuneration of its officials.   
   >   
   > Writing in today's JC, British academic Michael Pinto-Duschinsky questions   
   > the salaries paid by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material   
   > Claims Against Germany to its senior staff. In particular, he highlights   
   > the $437,811 (£240,000) in salary and pension awarded to its highest-paid   
   > official, executive vice-president Gideon Taylor, according to the latest   
   > available figures from 2004, revealed for the first time today by the JC.   
   >   
   > Dr Pinto-Duschinsky, who advised British survivors in compensation claims   
   > in the 1990s, insisted: "It is wrong for the executive vice-president to   
   > earn annually the same as the compensation for several hundred former   
   > slave labourers. The moral authority of the leading Jewish organisations   
   > is gravely weakened by excessively high salaries for top officials."   
   >   
   > Another veteran campaigner on behalf of Holocaust survivors, London   
   > businessman Martin Stern, said: "The salaries are not commensurate with   
   > the figures which are being paid to the people who suffered."   
   >   
   > But Abe Biderman, chairman of the Claims Conference's personnel and   
   > management committee, said the salaries were "at and below the equivalent   
   > salaries of comparable Jewish organisations." A large part of the senior   
   > staff salaries were reimbursed "from funders of the programmes   
   > administered by the Claims Conference." Total administrative expenses, he   
   > said, were less than 2.5 per cent of funds distributed in 2004.   
   >   
   > There has been criticism, too, of the way the Claims Conference spends   
   > money on funding educational and "remembrance" programmes when many   
   > believe that the increasing needs of ageing survivors are not being met.   
   > The committee in charge of the allocations meets in New York next Monday   
   > to decide on the next cycle of distributions.   
   >   
   > Chief among the critics, remarkably, is the treasurer of the Claims   
   > Conference, Roman Kent, who told the JC: "Survivors are suffering. Our   
   > only priority should be the survivors, and everything else should be   
   > secondary. We are spending money for thousands of projects, but the health   
   > of the survivors can't wait. They are dying daily." Mr Kent, himself a   
   > survivor, added: "I'm not saying that these are bad programmes, but they   
   > can wait - or else they should be the responsibility of the world Jewish   
   > community, not the Claims Conference."   
   >   
   > Mr Stern agreed. Querying whether the Claims Conference should be making   
   > £9.1 million of grants to educational organisations rather than to   
   > survivor care, he pointed out: "At the moment in Israel alone, we have a   
   > 65 million shekel shortfall (£7.8 million) in home care for aged Holocaust   
   > survivors who are ill. That should be a priority."   
   >   
   > In a separate controversy, New York lawyer Professor Burt Neuborne has   
   > applied for $4.1 million in fees - charging $700 an hour - for work he did   
   > in applying a complex $1.2 billion legal settlement against the Swiss   
   > banks.   
   >   
   > Some Holocaust survivor organisations in the US have filed an objection to   
   > Professor Neuborne's claim, suggesting that he had announced that he was   
   > ready to work pro bono (free). Leo Rechter, of the National Association of   
   > Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors, called the fees claim "a mockery" and   
   > "tragicomic."   
   >   
   > But an angry Professor Neuborne told the JC that the criticism was   
   > "absolutely unwarranted," insisting that he had waived a $10 million fee   
   > for securing the settlement, and that he had put in "seven years and 8,000   
   > hours to make the settlement work. It is a flat-out lie that I said I   
   > would do [the latter] work pro bono. The criticism is truly disgraceful."   
   >   
   > Claims Conference executive vice-president Gideon Taylor told the JC that   
   > there were "two schools of thought" on the allocation of restitution   
   > funds. "One says all the money should be used entirely for social welfare   
   > needs   
   >   
   > "The other says that this is money from those who perished, not from those   
   > who survived and that we need to acknowledge and remember those who died.   
   >   
   > "Holocaust education is important for future restitution negotiation. The   
   > obligation to meet the needs of victims of Nazi persecution is not just   
      
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