An orthodox Jewish rabbi who resigned as a city jail chaplain after reports surfaced that he had arranged a six-hour bar mitzvah party behind bars has been charged in Manhattan federal court with housing fraud

Leib Glanz, who belongs to the ultra-religious Satmar sect, and his brother, Menashe Glanz, surrendered after they were accused of a $200,000 scheme in Brooklyn. Over 15 years, according to the complaint, federal Section 8 housing benefits were paid for a duplex apartment in Williamsburg, where Menashe Glanz, 49 years old, claimed to live. That apartment was, in fact, occupied by 53-year-old Leib Glanz, according to the complaint, and the benefits were paid to the apartment's landlord, United Talmudical Academy, which employed Menashe. Until June 2009, Leib Glanz, a politically connected rabbi, was a part-time corrections chaplain at the Manhattan Detention Center in Lower Manhattan. After it was reported that he had arranged for a Jewish inmate to throw a kosher, privately catered bar mitzvah party in the facility for his son, the rabbi was suspended. He resigned after the city's Department of Investigation began probing the bar mitzvah.