"I heard he was sick. He was on a ventilator," said Avi Moskowitz, a
lawyer for a Brooklyn school where Kolko worked with children, Yeshiva
Torah Temimah on Ocean Parkway.
In 2016, Torah Temimah agreed to pay an unprecedented $2.1 million
to 2 former students who charged that Kolko sexually assaulted them.
Moskowitz, who does not represent Kolko, is now defending Torah
Temimah against 3 other pending lawsuits by men who claim the rabbi
molested them as kids - and that the yeshiva knew of the abuse.
Kolko's death complicates the cases, Moskowitz said. "You have
grown men who claim that 40 or 50 years ago something happened, and now
the person alleged to have done it is not available."
But Niall MacGiollabhui, a Manhattan lawyer who represents
plaintiff David Framowitz, said, "It won't affect the case. At the end
of the day, there's little denying Kolko did what he did."
He added, "I'm sure some people think Kolko evaded a full measure
of justice, but I can tell you this: his epitaph has not been written,
and it's going to be written by his victims. How he will be remembered
is going to be determined by his victims."
Attorney for YTT victim Boruch Sandhaus warns the Kolkos he will have an estate representative appointed with the Court's approval if they don't appoint someone themselvesHe gave the Kolkos until Feb. to appoint someone.on Feb. 3rd, Chief Clerk Quinn of the Kings County Surrogate's Court notified the attorney that no action had yet been taken on the Kolko estate"I heard he was sick. He was on a ventilator," said Avi Moskowitz, a lawyer for a Brooklyn school where Kolko worked with children, Yeshiva Torah Temimah on Ocean Parkway.In 2016, Torah Temimah agreed to pay an unprecedented $2.1 million to 2 former students who charged that Kolko sexually assaulted them.Moskowitz, who does not represent Kolko, is now defending Torah Temimah against 3 other pending lawsuits by men who claim the rabbi molested them as kids - and that the yeshiva knew of the abuse.Kolko's death complicates the cases, Moskowitz said. "You have grown men who claim that 40 or 50 years ago something happened, and now the person alleged to have done it is not available."But Niall MacGiollabhui, a Manhattan lawyer who represents plaintiff David Framowitz, said, "It won't affect the case. At the end of the day, there's little denying Kolko did what he did."He added, "I'm sure some people think Kolko evaded a full measure of justice, but I can tell you this: his epitaph has not been written, and it's going to be written by his victims. How he will be remembered is going to be determined by his victims."
Kolko will be fine in yener velt when he gets a break from oinshim before Shabbos!
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Rabbi Pleads Not Guilty To Molestation Charges
Brooklyn Yeshiva Denies Any Knowledge Of Incidents
By John Slattery
CBS News - December 8, 2006
In addition to Friday's charges, the rabbi faces multi-million dollar civil suits filed by three other alleged victims, who are now adults.
"Unfortunately, I anticipated there were going to be many more victims," said attorney Jeffrey Herman, who is representing the alleged victims.
Kolko was charged with four counts of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.
"My client will be fine when he gets home for Shabbos," said Scott Tulman, Kolko's attorney.
Bail for Kolko was set at $5,000, and he was ordered to surrender his passport.
That erev Shabbos in 2006 was when someone wrote a comment at the time on UOJ that Avi Kolko was seen chauffeuring Yudi home.
ReplyDeleteKolko-Margo groupies are so paranoid & delusional, that someone typed a raving comment in response that it must have been "Ben Hirsch hiding in the neighbors' bushes who spotted Avi behind the wheel" (!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP07Oyr7enQ
Rikers, Sing Sing ah, oh I wanna bring ya
Otisville, Metro Correctional, come on pretty boychikal
Supermax, Attica, go with poor Isaac Hersh to Jamaica
Off of Weinfeld's shul, there's a place called Kolkomo
That's where you wanna go to get away from it all
Fresser faces in the kugel, matjas herring melting in your hantel
Falling in love with the rhythm of Abish Brodt's Agudah Convention kumzitzen
Down in Kolkomo
Silver Lake, that Ma Na Vu mystique
We'll put out to Compounce & we'll perfect our chemistry
And by & by we'll defy a little bit of NY Mag gravity
Afternoon delight, hold the Plymouth steering wheel tight
That suspicious look in Eli Greenwald's eye, gave Margo a tropical fever high
Way down in Kolkomo
Belsky shreys UOJ's a freak, I want to chapp a keek
Lippy Geldwerth protects a little place like Kolkomo
Now if you wanna go & get away from it all
Go down to Kolkomo or YTT boiler room oh, we'll get there fast & then we'll take it slow
That's where we wanna go, way down in Kolkomo
Bob Dylan is that you?
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ReplyDeleteI wanted to sing this (mit reshus from the Beach Bochurim) when I went on the Chabad telethon, but Cunin refused. He was tzittering that Margo & Belsky would scream at him & pop out his ear drums.
Putting Dylan on the telescam was a new low even for California Chabad.
ReplyDeleteDylan was already a meshumod l'halacha altz Mary Alice taking him to attend the tiflus, plus his secret Shvartza mistress.
But Dylan made his apostasy even more official when Pastor Gulliksen announced his conversion to following Yoshke.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bob-dylan-sued-allegedly-drugging-sexually-assaulting-12-year-old-n1276926
This is besides that a complaint was filed 2 months ago in NY State Supreme Court that Dylan raped a 12 year old girl in 1965!
A small problem - the letter is dated Dec 2021 - last I checked it is still October 21
ReplyDeleteAttorney letters do not make such grave errors
02/16/2021
DeleteIsraeli authorities have thwarted an attempt by around 150 members of the Lev Tahor cult to flee to an area near the Iran-Iraq border, Asharq Al-Awsat reported.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Middle East Monitor, "dozens" of families in the cult were prevented from fleeing to Iran, where they had applied for asylum.
Kikar Hashabbat reported that at least three people left the main Lev Tahor group and moved to another location in Guatemala, due to concerns over entering Iran.
One of Lev Tahor's leaders told Kikar Hashabbat, "We will yet reach Iran, because in Guatemala, they are chasing after us."
Last week, families from Lev Tahor were seen in an airport, attempting to leave for Iran. According to the reports, the families' heads told security officials at the airport that they want to leave the country because they feel persecuted. The families also explained that due to their troubles in Guatemala, they plan to request asylum from Iran, but the airport security officials did not allow them to board the plane.
Orit Cohen, whose brother is part of the Lev Tahor cult, told 103 FM Radio that there are approximately 150 children, some of whom are not registered since they were born into the cult.
"No one knows, they have no passports, they switch their identities, names, and passports. Fourteen-year-old girls give birth," she told the radio station.
Cohen added, "Our families are trapped, they have no possibility of contacting us. We're all very worried about them, because this will be final."
A spokesman for Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said only it's "classified" in response to inquiries whether UOJ has been providing information on escape attempts that he received from unnamed State intelligence agencies.
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=NSlDYLMHKN1kViUDw9BmPA==&system=prod
ReplyDeleteA spokesman for Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said only it's "classified" in response to inquiries whether UOJ has been providing information on escape attempts that he received from unnamed State intelligence agencies.
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Is that you Tony Blinken?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Moore_(diplomat)
ReplyDeleteThat would be a chiddush if Biden's puppetmasters would allow Blinken to pass along intel to Israel.
This is sick
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The Agudah hired Chabadsker liar, I mean lawyer, Jacob Laufer, to attempt to shlog up the legal standing of the Child Victim Act and not just kick the victims to the curb, put stomp all over them too. He follows in Shafran's footsteps in denying Kolko ever abused anyone while insultingly laying into the plaintiffs to revictimize them.
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=zZCjSPn1SZnFtk/q60I5hA==&system=prod
ReplyDeleteState Supreme Court in Brooklyn enforces a mechanic's lien on the Agudah Fressers in Boro Park for trying to stiff Triboro Sewer out of $42,000.
I remember that restaurant in Lawrence. His brother Abe is notoriously karg. A baal habos once brought a party for lunch and he happens to like ketchup in his egg salad sandwich. When he asked Abe for ketchup, Abe was resisting because it costs a few cents per squirt. The fellow points out to Abe that the group is spending nicely for lunch. Abe sneers, yeah, egg salad sandwich, "big sale".
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