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Now this ex-prison chaplain might get to throw himself a big party behind bars.
Brooklyn Rabbi Leib Glanz — who quit as a city jail chaplain after The Post exposed how he arranged a bar mitzvah bash for an inmate behind bars — was busted with his brother for allegedly stealing $220,000 in subsidized-housing benefits.
For 15 years, the politically connected Satmar rabbi lived in a Williamsburg duplex whose landlord was receiving up to $1,675 a month in federal Section 8 rental-housing subsidies that had been approved for Glanz’s brother, Menashe — who actually was living in another home nearby, prosecutors charge.
Such subsidies are earmarked for low-income tenants.
The landlord was the United Talmudical Academy, a Brooklyn-based school system for Satmar Hasids — which Leib Glanz once ran and which employed Menashe.
Menashe over the years paid UTA only about $24 to $93 per month to cover the portion of the rent at 85 Ross St. — where Leib was living — that wasn’t covered by the Section 8 subsidy, federal authorities said.
And Leib, “on behalf of UTA,” signed the contract with the city Housing Authority to receive rental subsidies for Menashe to live there, a criminal complaint charges.
The city’s Department of Investigation, which uncovered the alleged scam while probing Leib Glanz’s preferential treatment of Jewish inmates in a lower Manhattan jail, said it is “the largest individual case of tenant fraud investigated by DOI.”
Leib Glanz, 53, and Menashe Glanz, 49, face up to 15 years in prison, if convicted.
Both were freed on $50,000 bond after appearing in Manhattan federal court.
The Post, in a series of exclusives in 2009, revealed that then-Correction Department chaplain Leib Glanz routinely coddled Jewish inmates at the Tombs with access to special food and use of his office, where they made calls to girlfriends and bookies.
Most shockingly, Glanz had organized a catered bar mitzvah party at the downtown jail in 2008 — complete with a band — for the son of inmate and former fugitive swindler Tuvia Stern.
Sixty non-inmate guests attended the bash. Probers later learned that Stern also hosted his daughter’s engagement party and a holiday feast for his brood behind bars.
The stories led to the resignations of both Leib Glanz and a top Correction chief, and spurred the DOI’s probe.
An investigative source yesterday said Glanz “was on our radar screen in multiple fronts” beyond the issue of favorable treatment in 2009.
A UTA lawyer declined to comment.
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