NEW YORK
The Jewish Daily Forward
By Paul Berger
Published November 12, 2013.
The troubled bribery and extortion trial of a Brooklyn man who says his son was a victim of child abuse has been delayed — again.
Laughter could be heard in the Brooklyn Supreme Court courtroom, November 12, when prosecutor John Holmes said that the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office was still not ready to try the case, which has dragged on for two years.
Kellner is accused of paying a witness $10,000 to falsely testify in the trial of a Brooklyn cantor on sex abuse charges. He is also accused of trying to extort the cantor’s family for $400,000.
Kellner’s lawyers had anticipated that the charges against their client would be dropped this week.
Lawyer Michael Dowd told the court that prosecutors contacted his office last week to say that they were dropping the case for lack of evidence.
The same prosecutors told the court in July that a key witness against Kellner had given inconsistent testimony.
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