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Anonymous wrote:Alisa Silverman is Jordan Silverman’s ex-wife. She settled with the DOJ for fraud. Ever wonder how some people keep dragging others through court long after the money should’ve run out? This is where she got the money to bankrupt Jordan.

The DOJ has announced multiple False Claims Act settlements involving misuse of programs meant for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned small businesses. Those funds were meant to build opportunity — not bankroll personal crusades or courtroom obsessions.

Sometimes justice takes time, but it eventually shows where the money really came from.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/praetorian-shield-and-two-individuals-agree-pay-221000-resolve-false-claims-act

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/paragon-systems-agrees-pay-52m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations-concerning-fraudulently

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1376711/dl

Holy cow. We knew JS when he was a new dad at BE in Bethesda and she *hated* him. He could never understand it—I never could figure out if he was putting on an act and had done something horrible to her, or if she was just awful. I guess we now have the answer. I feel so bad for him.

Anonymous wrote:Alisa Silverman is Jordan Silverman’s ex-wife. She settled with the DOJ for fraud. Ever wonder how some people keep dragging others through court long after the money should’ve run out? This is where she got the money to bankrupt Jordan.

The DOJ has announced multiple False Claims Act settlements involving misuse of programs meant for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned small businesses. Those funds were meant to build opportunity — not bankroll personal crusades or courtroom obsessions.

Sometimes justice takes time, but it eventually shows where the money really came from.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/praetorian-shield-and-two-individuals-agree-pay-221000-resolve-false-claims-act

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/paragon-systems-agrees-pay-52m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations-concerning-fraudulently

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1376711/dl

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Anonymous wrote:Alisa Silverman is Jordan Silverman’s ex-wife. She settled with the DOJ for fraud. Ever wonder how some people keep dragging others through court long after the money should’ve run out? This is where she got the money to bankrupt Jordan.

The DOJ has announced multiple False Claims Act settlements involving misuse of programs meant for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned small businesses. Those funds were meant to build opportunity — not bankroll personal crusades or courtroom obsessions.

Sometimes justice takes time, but it eventually shows where the money really came from.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/praetorian-shield-and-two-individuals-agree-pay-221000-resolve-false-claims-act

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/paragon-systems-agrees-pay-52m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations-concerning-fraudulently

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1376711/dl

Holy cow. We knew JS when he was a new dad at BE in Bethesda and she *hated* him. He could never understand it—I never could figure out if he was putting on an act and had done something horrible to her, or if she was just awful. I guess we now have the answer. I feel so bad for him.

And now thanks to the WHC charges, JS lost custody of his kids, and his kids are exclusively with the fraudster ex-wife. And the go fundme for him has raised just $2K, which won't do much except for buy him some groceries.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone should hire this guy.

Or do a go-fund-me so he can get his lawyer to try to get partial custody of his kids back. Hopefully this article can be submitted as evidence.

Or a go fund me to help him w/ his legal debt. I wish someone would represent him to go after the firm that did a horrible job on his case. If they could even refund a fraction of their fees, it would go a long way.

Anonymous wrote:Alisa Silverman is Jordan Silverman’s ex-wife. She settled with the DOJ for fraud. Ever wonder how some people keep dragging others through court long after the money should’ve run out? This is where she got the money to bankrupt Jordan.

The DOJ has announced multiple False Claims Act settlements involving misuse of programs meant for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned small businesses. Those funds were meant to build opportunity — not bankroll personal crusades or courtroom obsessions.

Sometimes justice takes time, but it eventually shows where the money really came from.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/praetorian-shield-and-two-individuals-agree-pay-221000-resolve-false-claims-act

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/paragon-systems-agrees-pay-52m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations-concerning-fraudulently

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1376711/dl

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Anonymous wrote:Disturbing role of DCUM in this article too.

A few weeks later, on Halloween night, someone scattered dozens of flyers on Silverman’s lawn. They included his name and photo, with a warning to neighbors to beware of the predator who had been accused of “sexually abusing 2, 3, and 4-year-old children.”

The accusations then began to pop up in online forums, particularly on Facebook and the forum DCUrbanMom.com. “They were accusing me of horrible things,” Silverman says. “There were threats and people posting that if the police don’t arrest me, someone ought to take matters into their own hands. Any posts that defended me were deleted.”

In late 2018, the harassment escalated. Silverman received threatening letters spelled out with characters cut from magazines, similar to a ransom letter. One read, “Evidence is mounting you sick f***.” Another included the line, “You aint worth the blood that runs in your veins.” In mid-December someone spray painted “child rapist” in front of Silverman’s home — the first of several such incidents. On Christmas night, his security camera caught a man smashing out the window and taillight of his car with a club. A month later, someone busted the back window and one of the headlights.

In late January 2019, on the advice of his attorney, Silverman documented 11 incidents of harassment and sent them to local police. During one spray painting incident, he was actually able to take a photo of the perpetrator’s license plate. He would later send that information to a private investigator, who found that the car had been rented by a father whose kids attended WHC — and who was friendly with Robert and Alison.

I think it’s less about the forum and more about the mob mentality of online spaces. Reddit and Facebook also had many active discussions condemning this man and the school director.

I don’t know how to break this to you, but DCUM is an online space.

One that has certainly demonstrated mob mentality at times over the past 20 years.

Uh yes…This isn’t just about DCUM, it’s about all online forums. Nothing I said above excludes DCUM from being an online space that leads to mob mentality.

I've never heard of this preschool, but sounds like the community there was engaging in a mob mentality if they went to spray paint this preschool teacher's house and smashed his car, rather than let the case take its course through the proper channels with the preschool.

The article seems to note a few specific people were involved. It’s a shame that they couldn’t be prosecuted.

The families engaged a lawyer who was a child pornographer.
https://wtop.com/dc/2023/04/lawyer-who-represented-students-in-dc-abuse-case-now-faces-child-pornography-charges/
A digital forensic analysis done by the FBI found nearly 2,000 images and five videos of child pornography, according to the complaint.

While he lived in Florida, Dolce represented families in the D.C. area in 2019 when they filed a civil lawsuit against the Washington Hebrew Congregation preschool after allegations that a male teacher sexually abused at least eight children.

The irony. He was also in bed in the process of downloading more images when he was arrested. And he was only given 4 years.

I couldn’t find any articles where the families spoke out against him.

Nope no one at WHC spoke out against the pedophile lawyer they hired to pursue its false accusations again a preschool teacher. Nor can you find any articles other than the one posted in the OP that mentions that the preschool teacher was cleared, or any public apology from WHC or its community to him for making his life hell. And that poor man still lost custody to his kids and any hope of gainful employment because his reputation is ruined.

It’s awful there is no restitution for him. At least from Racine’s office.

Why should Racine (and ultimately the DC taxpayer) pay restitution to him? It's the parents of the WHC kid who should pay for these false accusations, plus the other WHC community members who vandalized his car and house--they should be prosecuted.

Read the link the OP posted.

I did. Racine's office was stupid and sloppy (mixed up WHC with another preschool case), but more of the blame (IMO) lies with the parents of "Jenny" and the other WHC community members who took the law into their own hands and destroyed this preschool teacher's reputation and damaged his property and car.

I’m a WHC member and have been. I am having a hard time with the “WHC community members taking the law into their own hands” and accusing them of the harassment and vandalism. When I read the article I read that it was the group of parents. Yes, I suppose they WERE once WHC community members. So if that’s what you mean then I get it. Living through it as a WHC member, a lot of people who had that kind of hatred for JS also had the same hatred for WHC and left. WHC took a big hit, though nothing anywhere near the hit JS took. During the investigation JS was the center of it (being an active investigation I assume no one could talk about it). But then when that concluded WHC became the center for these families (and again became another active case no one could talk about). There was a group of the families and their friends that were very outspoken about WHC and the current members. I had a few interactions myself and it was despicable.

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Anonymous wrote:Alisa Silverman is Jordan Silverman’s ex-wife. She settled with the DOJ for fraud. Ever wonder how some people keep dragging others through court long after the money should’ve run out? This is where she got the money to bankrupt Jordan.

The DOJ has announced multiple False Claims Act settlements involving misuse of programs meant for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned small businesses. Those funds were meant to build opportunity — not bankroll personal crusades or courtroom obsessions.

Sometimes justice takes time, but it eventually shows where the money really came from.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/praetorian-shield-and-two-individuals-agree-pay-221000-resolve-false-claims-act

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/paragon-systems-agrees-pay-52m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations-concerning-fraudulently

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1376711/dl

Holy cow. We knew JS when he was a new dad at BE in Bethesda and she *hated* him. He could never understand it—I never could figure out if he was putting on an act and had done something horrible to her, or if she was just awful. I guess we now have the answer. I feel so bad for him.

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Anonymous wrote:Alisa Silverman is Jordan Silverman’s ex-wife. She settled with the DOJ for fraud. Ever wonder how some people keep dragging others through court long after the money should’ve run out? This is where she got the money to bankrupt Jordan.

The DOJ has announced multiple False Claims Act settlements involving misuse of programs meant for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned small businesses. Those funds were meant to build opportunity — not bankroll personal crusades or courtroom obsessions.

Sometimes justice takes time, but it eventually shows where the money really came from.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/praetorian-shield-and-two-individuals-agree-pay-221000-resolve-false-claims-act

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/paragon-systems-agrees-pay-52m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations-concerning-fraudulently

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1376711/dl

Holy cow. We knew JS when he was a new dad at BE in Bethesda and she *hated* him. He could never understand it—I never could figure out if he was putting on an act and had done something horrible to her, or if she was just awful. I guess we now have the answer. I feel so bad for him.

Anonymous wrote:Alisa Silverman is Jordan Silverman’s ex-wife. She settled with the DOJ for fraud. Ever wonder how some people keep dragging others through court long after the money should’ve run out? This is where she got the money to bankrupt Jordan.

The DOJ has announced multiple False Claims Act settlements involving misuse of programs meant for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned small businesses. Those funds were meant to build opportunity — not bankroll personal crusades or courtroom obsessions.

Sometimes justice takes time, but it eventually shows where the money really came from.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/praetorian-shield-and-two-individuals-agree-pay-221000-resolve-false-claims-act

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/paragon-systems-agrees-pay-52m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations-concerning-fraudulently

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1376711/dl

Anonymous wrote:This is just horrible. Unfortunately, I think the statement that no evidence of misdeeds could be found is not strong enough. Of course there is a presumption of innocence, but many people will not be convinced by the namby pamby statement that was released. I wonder if his lawyer could release a much stronger statement proclaiming JS innocence and talk mentio the false accusations, etc.