Rubashkin family consolidates power in Chabad

Results of yesterdays Community Consul elections in Crown Heights via comments to 770 Blog:

Anonymous said... "After nearly 3 hours of counting 1208 ballots, the results are all in and Crown Heights has a new Vaad HaKohol - CHJCC of 5 members. The 1208 ballots cast represent an increase of 100 total votes from the last election 3 years ago.

The winners, in order of most votes received are: Moshe Rubashkin, Tzvi Lang, Shmuel Plotkin, Leibish Nash and Chanina Sperlin. The following is the breakdown of the final amount of votes and percentage of the votes received by the candidates.

CANDIDATES, NUMBER OF VOTES & % VOTES
1 - Zev Cadaner - 590 - 49%
2 - Yosef Keller - 452 - 38%
3 - Tzvi Lang - 718 - 60%
4 - Yossel Mochkin - 564 - 46%
5 - Leibish Nash - 634 - 53%
6 - Shmuel Plotkin - 636 - 53%
7 - Moshe Rubashkin - 849 - 71%
8 - Chanina Sperlin - 621 - 52%"

Tzemach says: The winner Moshe Rubashkin will become Chair of the Vaad and now naturally we will never, ever hear any explanation about Shechita-gate from any Chabad Rabbi.

UPDATE No.1: Via Shmarya. A question to our readers: who is Moshe Rubashkin who pleaded guilty to bank fraud here in the court papers? Is that the same person?

UPDATE No.2: New blog "Crown Heights" reports on the New Gaboyim.

UPDATE No.3: Jewish Whistleblower finds this to be an excellent opportunity to dig knee deep into the publicly available dirt on the subject.