Holocaust fraud leads to 8-year prison term

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 8 years in prison Monday for masterminding a $57 million scheme to rip off a fund intended to aid Holocaust survivors.

Semen Domnitser, 55, a former director of two aid programs for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, was convicted of running a network of insiders who solicited and approved nearly 5,000 phony claims.

Applicants whose phony claims were approved kicked back chunks of the money they got to the fraud ring. Of 31 defendants in the case, 28 have pleaded guilty and three have been convicted at trial.