The 70-year-old upstate motorist who allegedly killed a man and injured a half-dozen other pedestrians in Chinatown Monday is free — with a valid license in hand — to still drive.
Henry Herman, of Monroe, was charged with seven counts of criminal misdemeanor for failure to yield, one for each person struck, and three traffic violations, including for failure to exercise due care, unsafe backing of a vehicle and driving on/across a sidewalk.
He must appear in Criminal Court but was freed with a desk-appearance ticket after cops say he lost control of his SUV.
A DMV rep said Herman is still allowed to drive.
He “has a full and valid NYS driver license, and there are no other crashes or driving convictions on his record,” the spokeswoman said. The DMV couldn’t say if his license could be yanked if he is convicted.
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How does Herman claim he lost control? Did he accidentally floor it instead of tapping the brakes to slowly back up?
Direct rebuke of Philly at the Agudah convention during a taped Q&A.
https://vimeo.com/303101392
R' Elya Brudny was asked do we follow rabbonim or the doctors regarding vaccinations.
He answered that Rav Elyashev ztl said from the Gemara that we are mechuyev to follow the consensus of the medical profession.
Rav Brudny was mamshich that it is INSULTING and AGAINST DAAS TORAH that some people are trying to undermine vaccinations. And that going against Rav Elyashev is the epitome of going against Daas Torah since he was the recent manhig hador.
When a traffic infraction is upgraded to a criminal offense it is almost always to a misdemeanor no matter how serious as everyday "Sunday drivers" being charged as felons would overwhelm the courts.
It is possible to get up to a year in prison for each misdemeanor charge but it's unlikely that he will receive anything more than fines especially with the connected Satmar fixers out there.
There could be victim impact statements influencing the judge but since Chinese are not known to be Zionists, and thus potential targets, they won't have much more to complain about beyond that Herman has to watch where he's going.
And let's just say he's lucky he wasn't ausgechappt at the time by a ruach shtuss and wearing a Santa hat!
Let him drive only in his own community. Let him drive a school bus.
"Let him drive a school bus"
Isn't that a Satmar specialty to start driving a truck or bus and then after learning a few ropes you open your own gesheft to compete with the boss you just quit on?
You think this is a joke?
Lipa Margulies who everyone "affectionately" knows as "Margo" was bus driver for Torah Vodaas before ripping off the yeshiva's name + donor records that landed him in beis din. In those days he was not YET arrogant enough to feif on hazmonos.
And don't forget that he started with David Lichtenstein's father A”H and then muscled him out.
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