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Failed Messiah
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
A secretly recorded tape of alleged hasidic serial pedophile Rabbi Baruch Lebovits making incriminating statements to one of his victims appears to have “gone missing” from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office just as Lebovits is allegedly about to get a sweetheart plea deal from Brooklyn’s outgoing D.A. Charles J. Hynes, Hella Winston reported in The Jewish Week.
Last week, the prosecutors on the case against Samuel Kellner, the father of an alleged Lebovits victim who was accused by the D.A. of extorting Lebovits’ family, wanted to dismiss the case against Kellner due to lack of evidence.
The D.A.’s Rackets Bureau Chief Michael Vecchione expelled them from his bureau and, with help of D.A. Charles J. Hynes, demoted them.
Still, the evidence against Kellner has crumbled, with most of the key parts shown to be based on what appears to be perjured and illegally induced testimony and on a blatant mistranslation of a secret Yiddish language tape make by a member of the Lebovits family that purportedly recorded Kellner extorting the family.
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