A Deer Park man who worked as a handyman for a Roslyn Heights synagogue was arraigned Thursday on charges he spent almost $124,000 of the synagogue's money on his LIPA bill and at Dunkin, Stop & Shop and other businesses, authorities said.

Rami Mohamad was charged with grand larceny after he allegedly accessed a bank account for Chabad of Roslyn and made 201 unauthorized ACH transactions between December 2022 and 2024 that drained $123,989 from the account, Nassau police said in a news release.

According to a sworn felony complaint by a Nassau detective, Chabad director Rabbi Aaron Konikov hired Mohamad in August 2022 and paid him by checks drawn from the synagogue account. Konikov went to the police in December 2024, when he noticed funds were missing from the account and saw bank recor

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