IDT Corp. has accused Touro University, the nation’s largest Jewish
university, of failing to pay the Newark-based telecommunications company $38
million from the sale of a joint venture.

A suit filed by IDT in U.S. District Court in Newark claims the company is owed
20 percent of the $190 million the university’s parent received in the sale of
its Internet-based venture, TUI, in October.

The suit, claims IDT helped put an online venture together for Touro College,
the university’s parent company, at the suggestion of founder Bernard Lander.

Howard Jonas, the telecom company’s founder, agreed, in return for 20 percent of
the venture, and Lander accepted the deal, the suit says.

Yet Touro College has refused to pay IDT any proceeds from the sale, the suit
says.

The suit accuses Touro College, Touro University, TUI and Summit Partners of
breach of contract and demands that Summit pay IDT 20 percent of the amount
Summit paid for TUI.

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A man charged with fatally shooting his wife and children was the beneficiary listed on her $1 million life insurance policy, according to testimony at an estate hearing.

Christopher Vaughn, 33, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his wife, Kimberly, and the couple’s three young children. Authorities found their bodies June 14 in the family’s sport utility vehicle parked on a service road about 40 miles southwest of Chicago, after a wounded Vaughn flagged down a passing motorist.

Vaughn was to receive $1 million from a life insurance policy on his wife, according to Friday’s testimony in Kendall County civil court. But Illinois law has prevented him from collecting the assets of his alleged victims.

Judge Tim McCann ordered that an uninvolved third party should handle the estate until Vaughn’s criminal case is resolved. A bill of more than $30,000 for four funerals is the only money that can be removed from the account, McCann ruled.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Vaughn.

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