At Rabbi, least several 7 people others dead, arrested 13 still missing in public after benefits tourist fraud boat case sinks

Scuba divers on Monday continued A New Jersey rabbi and his wife searching for bodies in a reservoir and three other couples defrauded near the Colombian city of Medellin state and federal public assistance where a tourist boat packed with programs out of more than $1 million more than 150 passengers capsized, by underreporting their incomes, leaving at least seven people dead and according to criminal complaints 13 missing. released Monday. After suspending their search overnight One of the couples continued to due to a lightning storm, scuba receive Medicaid assistance for their divers by midmorning Monday had children despite making more than pulled a seventh body from the underwater $1 million in both 2012 and 2013, according wreckage. Authorities were also to one criminal complaint. turning their attention to the causes of

Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph the sinking and whether the company Coronato said more arrests are expected that owned the boat named El Almirante as a result of the investigation contributed to the accident. centered on Lakewood, a town

A flotilla of recreational boats and near central New Jersey’s shore that jet skis had rushed to the scene, pulling is home to a large and growing ultra-Orthodox people from the boat as it went Jewish community. down and avoiding an even deadlier

Rabbi Zalmen Sorotzkin, of Congregation tragedy. Lutzk in Lakewood, and

Dramatic videos circulating on social his wife, Tzipporah, were charged media show the turquoise-and-yellow-trimmed with collecting more than $338,000 party boat rocking back in benefits prosecutors said they and forth as people crawled down weren’t entitled to. Their attorney from a fourth-deck roof as it sank in a said they will plead not guilty. matter of minutes.