Queens, NY – A New York City lawyer has been suspended for six months for trying to get out of a speeding ticket by falsely claiming that a New Jersey trooper hurled an anti-Semitic slur during the traffic stop.
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The New York Post reports (http://nyp.st/sLhoia ) that attorney Elliott Dear was pulled over in 2007 while driving 84 mph. Days after getting the ticket, he sent a letter to a court saying the officer had called him by a derogatory term for Jews, and that “this prejudice obviously was the cause for the ticket.”
He repeated the claim in an interview with investigators.
Unbeknownst to the lawyer, the traffic stop had been videotaped. The recording exonerated the trooper completely.
A state appeals court upheld Dear’s suspension in a decision released Friday.
The Attorney was lucky that his suspension was only for six months, and not for two years. Also, he is lucky that the N.J. State Trooper didn’t file a lawsuit against the motorist for defamatory statements, which the Attorney admitted were false. What chutzpah for him to be driving 84mph, in a 55mph zone!
What a massive chilul hashem. There are many orthodox jews in the NYPD and they have complained about many orthodox jews called CCRB to make false allegations about traffic stops which unknown to the people stopped the police officer was jewish and not just jewish but orthodox jewish!
There should be a law that one who makes up false allegations against officers should serve 5 years with a 25,000 fine. This will cut the non sense out.
Beautifully articulated decision by the court. Just goes to show you even a psych moron can get through law school.
Why don’t you all watch your lashon harah and check your own heads before listening to the ny post for ideas!!
This is ridiculous, Elliott Dear is an upstanding member of the community; if he said the cop called him *whatever* then it must be true, right? The tapes must have been altered and Elliott framed. If there wasn’t a tape recording, isn’t there a possibility this damaging allegation would have been added to the officer’s record?
Elliott should be disbarred for blatantly slandering a public official so he could skip out on a traffic ticket. At least now, and forever, whenever anyone, anywhere, googles “Elliott Dear” this will come up.
He made it more difficult for people who really are mistreated by police to be taken seriously. The chilul Hashem is enormous. The punishment from the Bar is fair but the New York Bar acted on their own when it was referred to them. I am surprised the State of New Jersey, where this occurred, is letting the matter drop.
I shudder when I see what some of our religious elite are doing today.
How about the countless times the cops are bias towards jews? How about the instances when the cops are trying to frame innocent people? What this guy did is abselutely wrong but let’s not jump so fast on the cops ban wagon.
This unfortunate case supports the claim of those who say that Jews cry “anti-Semitism” whenever they are caught doing something wrong.
This is what happens when the Al Sharptonsteins try to play the anti-Semitism card. They all share in the attorney’s guilt.
A friend of mine during the 1st intifada war was dismissed from the Israeli Police force after an Arab caused self inflicted wounds and blamed my friend.
It happen once that its not true but most times its true,it happen once to me in in upstate ny that the cop pulled me & asked me some questions which I wouldn’t answer right away & he replied “we gana show for this jew what we can