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Failed Messiah
All charges were dropped against supposed hasidic extortionist Sam Kellner after those charges were proved to be based on evidence best characterized as complete BS. A Jewish newspaper apparently helped smear Kellner despite widespread knowledge and much proof that the evidence against him was not credible. Will Sam Kellner sue the Forward?
Last year, the Forward published two extremely brief excerpts totaling only 106 seconds out of what it characterized as 80 minutes of tape recordings of Sam Kellner, who then still stood accused of extorting an accused pedophile, Baruch Lebovits and Lebovits’ family.
All charges were dropped against Kellner last month because they were, as Hella Winston in the Jewish Week and Michael Powell in the New York Times both reported long before they were dropped, (and I paraphrase) complete BS.
Pretty much all of the evidence against Kellner came from the Lebovits family and Baruch Lebovits’ attorneys, Arthur Aidala and Alan and Nathan Dershowitz, and pretty much all of that evidence turned out to be not credible or corrupted.
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