Controversy
Lapin has been linked to the scandal of Jack Abramoff through the organization Toward Tradition. Abramoff was a former board member of the organization, which required its board members to contribute at least $10,000 per year to the organization. Abramoff met his contribution one year by donating $10,000 from the Capital Athletic Foundation, an organization Abramoff controlled. Emails later surfaced that were alleged to have been sent between Lapin and Abramoff. In these emails, Abramoff requests that Lapin create fake awards for Talmudic studies to help Abramoff gain admittance to the Cosmo Club in Washington DC. Lapin later released a formal statement denying having given any awards to Abramoff and stated that the he was joking in the emails and believed that Abramoff was as well.
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