Lakewood, NJ – The New Jersey commerce commission has frozen nearly $600,000 in
funding for Lakewood’s job training and placement programs after a state audit uncovered a series of questionable practices, most notably one vendor who apparently paid himself as a consultant to his own agency.
Also some questions about a company that is a division of Agudath Israel of America, and about their relationship.
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Rabbi Moshe Zev Weisberg, the president of Lakewood Community Services Corp., said in a prepared statement that he was “quite concerned.” “The Job Link Program has been a model program bringing jobs to
Lakewood residents and we are all hopeful that any administrative shortcomings will be resolved quickly,” Weisberg said.