This plan will take a few years, but in the end it will be well worth your time and effort because eventually you will have stolen at least tens of thousands of dollars or maybe even a Shul of your very own.

Line up a lawyer who will be willing to work with you when the time comes. This lawyer should be extra-slimy; someone with no problem representing people who don’t have standing. This lawyer should be well-acquainted with litigation and how to use the court system to his advantage. Inform the lawyer that it might take a few years before he gets paid, although, since he is extra-slimy, he probably knows that already. Don’t worry, if you can’t find a lawyer, we will find one for you.
Find a community with an old, established Shul, where most of the true members have died or moved away. It is imperative that the target Shul has lost many members and is struggling to pay utility bills and any remaining salaried employees. This plan works even better if there are two or more Orthodox Shuls in the area.

In this community, establish an outreach center. Run special programs. Create flyers announcing you are in the area to serve the community. You will need to gain the confidence of the community and make a name for yourself. It helps to introduce yourself to the politicians in the area and to the rabbi of the target Shul. Most politicians have heard of kiruv and all the great work we do so they will be eager to be a part of your activities and any horse-and-pony shows you dream up. It’s also a good idea to get to know the local Jewish newspapers if there are any. Become friendly with at least one reporter. They are usually looking for something to report so you can set up a symbiotic relationship.

You can even approach the rabbi of a Shul nearby and assure him that you will not be having services at your establishment; you just want to do “kiruv” and serve the Jewish community. Most rabbis do not know what we have planned and they will be very accommodating and even offer assistance.

After you settle in and start having services, you can attempt to intercept members of the nearby Shul and try to persuade them to make up your Minyan – you need a “tenth man.” Taking away members from the target Shul will help you take it over later. Not only will there be less opposition to you taking over the Shul, the members you stole from the target Shul will unwittingly be on your side. They will think about all the great things Kiruv does and they will delude themselves into thinking that they are part of it.

After you are established, approach the rabbi of the target Shul or the President and offer to either pay rent or pay for the utilities. In exchange, promise to work hard to bring in people to make the Shul dynamic and a place where the Jewish community will want to attend. Promise that the Shul will grow under the programs you will institute.
If the people in charge of the Shul agree to go ahead with your plan, you should waste no time in getting programs underway in the Shul. Import Yeshivish people from Flatbush, if necessary, to help in the takeover. Have Shabbat services and be sure to include cholent afterwards. If the people in charge of the Shul do NOT agree with your plan, skip to step 10.
Work within the Shul for a few years. Get to know the people there well and the community. Make sure everyone associated with you and the programs you run are super sweet and extremely courteous with everyone they meet.

Of course, one approach, perhaps the easiest and most difficult to fight against, is to have all of your people join the Shul as members. Get a copy of the Shul Bylaws and run for office (or have your people run for office) as soon as they are allowed to. When you have enough of your people on the board, or your people comprise the majority of the members, simply have a vote to change the nature of the Shul from whatever it is to YOU. That’s it! You’re done. You can skip the rest of the steps below. If you don’t have enough people, continue to step 11.
After a few years, stop paying the bills. This is very important since our money belongs to us. Nobody else has a right to our money. Of course, it will take a few weeks or perhaps even months until somebody in the Shul has enough courage to approach you to ask for the back rent or the utility payments. By then, it will be too late. While the delay is taking place, or even during the time you have been paying, continue with step 12.
Locate old members who have stopped attending the Shul. Tell them the current rabbi and board want to sell the Shul and that you are trying to stop the sale and build up the Shul and make it great to help revive the Jewish community (even if the Jewish community had ceased to exist long ago). They will tell you that they haven’t been attending for a while so explain to them that they are part of the "greater Jewish" community and that they can help save the Shul.
Locate people who attend the Shul but do not pay any membership fees. They are more likely to be on your side than actual members who pay membership fees. Call them or have meetings with them and explain the same story you gave to the past members in step 12.
Have one of your more trusted false members contact the Attorney General and inform him that you are a member (or to make it even more believable, claim to be a board member. They never check these claims out, and once the claim is made, it usually sticks.) of a certain Shul and that the rabbi is trying to sell the Shul out from under the true members. Once you convince the Attorney General that a maverick rabbi is on the loose, you will have a very strong ally. This will be helpful in litigation later.
Call an emergency meeting and invite just the two groups of people described in steps 12 and 13. Make sure you keep this meeting a secret from any real members. Have a stenographer attend the meeting. If possible, the lawyer should attend the meeting and run the meeting. It’s imperative that you do NOT attend the meeting. You must establish plausible deniability should someone claim that your organization is involved in a plot to take over a Shul if this scheme falls apart and you lose. If the lawyer can’t attend the meeting, choose someone you can trust to get the unsuspecting people you invited to go along with whatever you say.
At the meeting make it clear that you want to save the Shul. Have a vote of all those interested in saving the Shul. Have a vote of all those interested in removing the rabbi and installing your rabbi in his place. Tell the people there not to worry about paying for anything if that point should come up. Assure them that all this in necessary in order to save the Shul.
Don’t be intimidated by the rabbi or the Shul board. The chances are the board is made up of friends of the rabbi, since who else would still be around in a Shul that is on the way out? Be sure to use this fact to your advantage when you appear in court. Make it appear that the real board of the Shul is questionable. Call it a "Sham". Delegitimize it as much as possible. This will confuse all the authorities and will help your case later on.
Now the fun part really begins. Have the lawyer draw up papers to sue the rabbi and his sham board, made up of his relatives and friends. Make sure to include the transcript of the fraudulent meeting you had. Also, be sure to include any other false meetings that show that the "real" members had meetings during the course of the year. The lawsuit should ask the court for the following relief at the very least: (a) Removal of the rabbi immediately, since the meeting you had of the "true" members already had him fired; (b) Installation of the local Kiruv rabbi as the rabbi of the Shul; (c) Installation of the "true" board.
The court will not grant any of the relief without hearing the rabbi’s side. Of course, if the rabbi doesn’t answer, you win by default. Get ready to take over the Shul.
If, however, the rabbi DOES answer, it might be short-lived anyway. The chances are that the rabbi will not want to fight for too long because litigation is expensive and he will not be able to fight you for a prolonged period of time. You win again.
The rabbi might try a tactic of inviting you to a Jewish court – a Beis Din. You don’t have to go. You can always claim to the court that the Beis Din is biased in favor of the rabbi. Of course, this does not have to be true, but what difference does it make after all the lies and false documents you have made up already?
Even if you end up being in court for a few years, what does it matter? In the end, even if you don’t actually steal the Shul, the court will force both sides into a settlement. This means the Shul will have to pay you and your lawyers a large amount of money in order to allow the Shul to be sold. Either way, you win again.
Now for the best part. What happens, say two or three months down the road, when you get tired of pretending that you really cared about the community from which you stole the Shul? You can sell the Shul on your own. The only catch is that you can't keep the money for yourself, since most states do not allow individuals to keep money received from a not-for-profit religious corporation. The money received from any sale of such a corporation must be given to a similar corporation. Since Kiruv is one big happy family, all the money can go to Kiruv. Then you can work out a deal with the mother ship where they can keep some of it and give the rest to you. Of course, the last few sentences here is pure speculation, but I think you get the idea.