Yakov Tworsky Questioned Over School Internet Costs and Bidding

Did you have anyone help you file this paperwork?

We definitely all team working. I'll look into it.

Who, who's on your team?

I'll look into it.

Yeah.

I'm sure.

Do you have a consultant independently?

Like-

Definitely have somebody. I'd have to look to see.

'Cause your name's on it, right? So if these numbers are whack, right, if they

don't add up-

I appreciate you bringing it to my attention. Thank you.

Yeah, so n- no problem at all 'cause I'm, I'm concerned for the American taxpayer

as well, right?

Absolutely.

Including yourself. So you're Yakov Tworsky, right?

Yes. Mm-hmm.

So you signed, you verified, and certified this document, right?

I, I... This is something you're bringing me.

I mean-

Yes. And that's your name, right?

That's, that's me. Mm-hmm.

That's your email. So,

uh, I'm just trying to figure out-

... what made you take this? 'Cause there's only a single bid

... what made you take this? 'Cause there's only a single bid

that came for the

service.

I'm not exactly sure. I would have to look into it.

Do- would you have a secretary or someone that would've done this for

you, or is

this you yourself?

Again, I'm definitely working with other people

on this, but I'll definitely look

into it. I appreciate you-

Who, who are you working with? Would there be someone else to contact?

'Cause your name's on it. Your name's on it, and the,

the math doesn't add up.

Wait, well-

What was that?

Well-

You know what I mean?

No, I understand.

So you're paying about, like, three times the median rate.

Interesting.

And 90% of that's being billed to the federal government.

All right.

So you're only paying 10% of that, right?

I understand.

So I'm trying to figure out why you wouldn't competitively bid for the

service.

I'm not sure. I'd have to look into that.

Why would you take the first bid? It doesn't really add up.

You know what I mean?

I'll look into it, okay? I appreciate you bringing it to my

attention.

Is there anything else I should know about what's going on here?

I don't think so.

Anything else you wanna clarify? 'Cause your name's on it,

that's why I ask.

No, I understand. I don't know.

Do you know why you're o- overbilling the government to this degree?

Like-

I'm, I'm, I'm not overbilling.

You're not overbilling?

Overbilling, no.

Should we speak to the vendor? Would that be the next best person to speak to?

Well, how I see it, I, I'm not exactly sure. I appreciate it.

And do you guys use the internet in your curriculum?

Appreciate you bringing it to my attention. I'll definitely look into it.

Are you guys incorporating the internet in your curriculum on a day-to-day basis?

Thank you so much. All right. Yakov, uh, didn't really give us a ton of clarifying

or enlightening answers. One of his, um, coworkers came out here and said, "Don't

speak to him," from what I understood. Uh, any interesting thoughts? Any thoughts?

You're welcome for your overpriced internet, Yakov.

Let's speak to this guy real quick. Question for you, sir.

Um, what did you say to Yakov in Yiddish?

I'm sorry?

What did you communicate to Yakov? You cut our conversation a bit short.

Excuse me, is it... Sure. In the tiny black hat. Um,

what did you say to Yakov?

Uh, with the long curls. What did you say to Yakov back there?

Okay. We don't know. You can see how difficult it can be to

even speak directly

to the school administrators. What about the company selling these

schools

massively overpriced internet and billing the government directly for

90% of the bill? I looked at the schools this ghost files

for and

found that many of his schools buy their internet from a small group of

companies. 10 of them. 10 competitors all fighting for the

school's business, supposedly. So I pulled each company's

paperwork, and here's the best part.

You can lie to your customers, but you have to tell the state who your

boss

is and where you live, and one man's name came back on eight

of them, Aaron Kraut. Five companies list him as

their boss. These three, nobody runs them.

No boss, no employees, no humans at all, except he's the

one who signed them into existence.

Two of these, he created one day apart, and 14 weeks later, these

two brand-new companies showed up on one Brooklyn school's federal

paperwork as its competition. Both of them won, and both

of them were signed into existence by the same man, Aaron

Kraut. That left two companies that looked genuinely separate.

A man named Eliezer Pasquez built them one week apart in

two different states and then handed them off to a man named

Yakov

Leser, who runs them today. Now, these two names appear nowhere

in these first eight companies, so they must be a real second

family, right? But then I looked at who signed Internal

Power's own

state paperwork in 2024, and guess who I found?

Aaron Kraut as an officer. So that's 10 companies with

Aaron Kraut's name on nine. There is no separate company.

In summary, that's two men and 10 competitors.

The competition was never real. Now, where have you heard this

before? Ding, ding, ding. The 2018 Rockland case where

the government said the seven fraudsters posed as consultants and

vendors to build the illusion of a thriving competitive

marketplace. Seven people, all guilty.

That's what the government calls it when the competition is fake,

fraud