Millions of dollars in federal funds that were supposed to provide access to computers and the Internet for underprivileged schools went to private yeshivas in Rockland.

A search of the website for the federal E-Rate program shows that $16.5 million in E-Rate funds were funneled to yeshivas in an area of Rockland where public school students are getting by with much less.

The community that received the funds frowns upon Internet access, but 45 private schools in Monsey still received $16.5 million. Meanwhile, East Ramapo public schools received $2.6 million.

In Kiryas Joel, where the feds raided two locations last month, seven schools received E-Rate funds. The top three yeshivas there netted $11.2 million.

News 12 went to those schools, but people said they were unaware of whether the schools had Internet access or computers.

Raids carried out last week by the FBI targeted two addresses in the Orthodox Jewish community of Kiryas Joel as simultaneous searches occurred in Ramapo. The raid was part of a fraud probe looking into how the money was spent at private schools.

The investigation is ongoing.