NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY BARBARA ROSS Monday, November 17, 2014
A Brooklyn dad whose allegations of sexual molestation helped put a prominent Hasidic man in jail says he was defamed by The Jewish Forward.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Sam Kellner says the acclaimed paper became a “Pravda for pedophiles” last November when it accused him of trying to bribe a witness to testify against the convicted molester, Baruch Lebovits, and trying to extort money from the Lebovits family to buy his silence.
The paper also accused Kellner of advising another accused molester of how to avoid prosecution.
Kellner’s lawyer, Niall MacGiollabhui, said the stories were based on illegally obtained tapes — some of which were doctored — that were promoted by the Lebovits family to tar Kellner’s name.
Kellner started the roll of the Brooklyn’s twisted ball of yarn in 2008 after his son was allegedly molested by Liebovits.
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