A private event at New York City’s famous Rainbow Room, with Kenny G, Aerosmith, 50 Cent and other stars, makes the headlines when it became known that it was a $10 million bat mitzvah for 13 year old Elizabeth Brooks, daughter of David H. Brooks, founder and CEO of DHB Industries a defense contractor and body-armor maker.
Two years after the lavish event, which received much coverage and social media criticism, Brooks was served with a 21-count federal indictment, for securities fraud, insider trading, tax evasion and obstruction of justice including raiding his company’s coffers for personal gain including the $10 million he used to pay for his daughter’s bat mitzvah. He was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to 17 years in prison where he died in 2016. More
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