{"id":42275,"date":"2012-02-01T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=42275"},"modified":"2012-02-05T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T11:23:21","slug":"nyc-lawyer-suspended-after-fake-anti-semitism-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=42275","title":{"rendered":"NYC lawyer suspended after fake Anti-Semitism claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Dareh Gregorian \u2013 The New York Post December 12, 2011<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">NEW YORK \u2014 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Attorney Elliott Dear said he made up the outrageous allegations in hopes of getting out of a speeding ticket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Six days after getting the ticket, Dear sent a letter to the traffic court saying, &#8220;This ticket shall be dismissed immediately&#8221; since he wasn&#8217;t speeding and &#8220;the officer called me a &#8216;Jew kike&#8217; \u2014 and this prejudice obviously was the cause for the ticket,&#8221; the papers say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The letter was forwarded to Internal Affairs, which contacted Dear, who repeated that he had been the victim of an ethnic slur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Unfortunately for Dear \u2014 and luckily for the trooper \u2014 the traffic stop had been videotaped on the officer&#8217;s car camera, and the trooper was wearing a recording device.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Police reported Dear&#8217;s actions to the New York state lawyers&#8217; disciplinary committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a ruling made public yesterday, a panel of state Appellate Division judges denied Dear&#8217;s request for only a private rebuke, and suspended him for six months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.policeone.com\/patrol-issues\/articles\/4812156-NYC-lawyer-suspended-over-claim-that-trooper-used-slur\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy Peter Myers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney claimed \u201canti-Semitic\u201d slur against him to get out of a speeding ticket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42275"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42518,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42275\/revisions\/42518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}