A Queens lawyer has been suspended for six months for falsely accusing a New Jersey state trooper of using anti-Semitic slurs against him, according to a ruling released yesterday.
Attorney Elliott Dear said he made up the outrageous allegations in hopes of getting out of a speeding ticket.
Court papers say the unidentified trooper pulled over Dear, an orthodox Jew, for going 84 in a 55-mph zone while driving with his wife in 2007.
Six days after getting the ticket, Dear sent a letter to the traffic court saying, “This ticket shall be dismissed immediately” since he wasn’t speeding and “the officer called me a ‘Jew kike’ — and this prejudice obviously was the cause for the ticket,” the papers say.
The letter was forwarded to Internal Affairs, which contacted Dear, who repeated that he had been the victim of an ethnic slur.
Unfortunately for Dear — and luckily for the trooper — the traffic stop had been videotaped on the officer’s car camera, and the trooper was wearing a recording device.
Police reported Dear’s actions to the New York state lawyers’ disciplinary committee.
In a ruling made public yesterday, a panel of state Appellate Division judges denied Dear’s request for only a private rebuke, and suspended him for six months.
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!
ReplyDeleteThere 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
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!
ReplyDeleteThis 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?
ReplyDeleteElliott 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.