די מהודר'דיגע מוסרים פראקטיצירען זייער פאך
$1M handout to ill health 'exec'
By BRAD HAMILTON
Last Updated: 7:37 AM, September 26, 2011
Posted: 2:15 AM, September 25, 2011
A wealthy Hasidic real-estate family with a checkered past and a nonprofit medical center in Williamsburg has paid its patriarch more than $1.2 million in recent years with taxpayer cash -- though he's an 89-year-old Alzheimer's patient who needs round-the-clock care, The Post has learned.
Zvi Kestenbaum received $343,292 as executive director of ODA Primary Care Health Center in 2009 after earning $427,163 in 2008 and $494,851 in 2007 for purported full-time work, the latest records show.
Kestenbaum, stricken with Alzheimer's in 2001, needs assistance being wheeled from his home on daily trips to a nearby synagogue, say those who know the family.
Eugene Ehrenfeld, the center's CEO, said Kestenbaum has stopped working there, but still gets ''retroactive salary adjustments.'' He would not elaborate.
''It's not salary,'' he insisted.
By BRAD HAMILTON
Last Updated: 7:37 AM, September 26, 2011
Posted: 2:15 AM, September 25, 2011
A wealthy Hasidic real-estate family with a checkered past and a nonprofit medical center in Williamsburg has paid its patriarch more than $1.2 million in recent years with taxpayer cash -- though he's an 89-year-old Alzheimer's patient who needs round-the-clock care, The Post has learned.
Zvi Kestenbaum received $343,292 as executive director of ODA Primary Care Health Center in 2009 after earning $427,163 in 2008 and $494,851 in 2007 for purported full-time work, the latest records show.
Kestenbaum, stricken with Alzheimer's in 2001, needs assistance being wheeled from his home on daily trips to a nearby synagogue, say those who know the family.
Eugene Ehrenfeld, the center's CEO, said Kestenbaum has stopped working there, but still gets ''retroactive salary adjustments.'' He would not elaborate.
''It's not salary,'' he insisted.