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President Obama to FIRE FBI director James Comey after the election

After persistent prodding by Valerie Jarrett, President Obama has agreed to fire America's top cop

A White House source familiar with the decision says Jarrett and the president held lengthy discussions over the past several days about the political and legal ramifications of firing FBI director

The president was furious with Comey for reopening the FBI's investigation of Hillary's emails 

But he was reluctant to move against Comey for fear that it would open him to charges of obstruction of justice.

It has yet to be decided who will wield the hatchet—the president, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, or someone else 

Is the END near?

Reform Jews, Leftist Jews team up with Satmar & Skver to vote for Hillary

Who would believe that Skver and Satmar would be on the same page as leftist and Reform Jews?
Voting for someone who advocates handing nuclear weapons to the Iranian Mullahs, and are strong proponents of having men who claim they are women go into public ladies bathrooms..

Is this the new chassidis shtik to vote with Reform Jews? Or is it all about money?
So for money they will throw 6 million plus Jews living in Israel under the bus, so they could get a couple of zlotes for the moisid!

Clueless Satmar leaders in Kiryat Yoel tell their followers to vote for Hillary Clinton on November 8.

Leaders of one of the groups of the Satmar anti-Zionist hasidic sect have told their followers to vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton next week. 

According to those Satmar leaders, Republican candidate Donald Trump is pro-Israel and works to strengthen the Jewish state, and it is therefore forbidden to vote for him. Satmar believes that it was forbidden to create a Jewish state until the coming of the Messiah as the Talmud says that Jews in exile must not antagonize the non-Jews.

In the notice sent to thousands of hasidim, the group justified their decision on other grounds as well, stating that Clinton "has stood with the haredi sects for several years, when she was First Lady, New York Senator, and Foreign Minister."

A fringe group related to Satmar and often confused with them, known as Neturei Karta, organizes anti-Israel rallies, and often organizes protests at pro-Israel gatherings in the US in which Satmar participates.

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2 WOMEN ATTACKED IN MONSEY DRIVEWAYS IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS

Police in Rockland County are investigating two separate incidents involving female victims who were approached from behind by an unknown male subject.

The first incident happened Tuesday on Carmen Court in Chestnut Ridge, while the second happened Thursday on Olympia Lane in Monsey. Both incidents occurred in the driveways of the victims' homes after they exited their vehicles, and both took place between 8:30 p.m and 10 p.m.

The victim in the most recent incident said she isn't sure whether she was followed by a suspect in a car or whether he was lurking in a neighborhood.

"Someone came from behind and attacked me," Chanie Lipschutz said. "He didn't say anything, he just attacked me. And thank God he just let go, because he really could've done anything."

Authorities say he attempted to incapacitate her with ammonia in a surprise assault that took place just steps from her side door.

"She couldn't scream, because he had her mouth covered," husband Pinny Lipschutz said. "He had some type of ammonia or something on his hands. Her eyes were burning, and she said she knew she should fight back, but she couldn't. He had her in such a grip that she couldn't move."

The Lipschutz said something, perhaps a passing car, may have scared off the suspect, who fled without seriously hurting the victim or stealing anything.

"At first we thought that he stole her pocketbook, but she had gone shopping, and the pocketbook was under the bags," Pinny Lipschutz said. "She dropped them and ran into the house."

The unsettling incident happened on a quiet street where the family has lived for 22 years.

"I was born in this town 58 years ago," Lipschutz said. "So it shakes you up when something like this happens in a small town, quiet street."

It is unknown if the incidents are related, but both are being investigated by the Ramapo Police Detective Division with assistance from the Rockland County Sheriff's Department.

Anyone with information is asked to contact authorities.

Monsey Developers finally get punched in the mouth!

We wrote about this last week but here read about it on Matzav:

We’ve heard it so many times: Nothing can be done about all of the overbuilding in Ramapo.  The whole process is corrupt, with builders and developers “somehow” getting variances and approvals that no reasonable person would grant, changing what once was a rural town into Brooklyn North.

It’s not only the loss of aesthetics – the space and natural beauty that many escaped the City to enjoy.  The burden on infrastructure is reaching the breaking point.  Just one small example:  how long is your wait in local traffic during rush hours these days?   (Hard to believe such a concept as “rush hour” exists in once-bucolic Monsey.)  Much more important is how overdevelopment affects safety.  Doesn’t your heart sink while driving up the hill on Rte. 306, praying that no toddler misjudge his scooter by just inches into oncoming traffic?  How could anyone have approved this?

But what to do?  No amount of objections at Planning, Zoning and Town Board meetings, no appeals to following laws and regulations, no basic seichel can match how local developers and their friends seem to have the politicians and other supposed public servants in their pockets.  And so we stand by helplessly as more multifamily monstrosities get built willy-nilly, despite (or in spite of?) the protections of zoning laws and processes meant to act as a bulwark against all this – let’s call it what it is – abuse.

Well, things may be changing.  One recent case highlights how far the abuse can go, and the degree to which right-minded residents coming together can fight it.

The case is Viola Gardens, a condominium development on Viola Road across from Ramapo High School.  The 5.5-acre parcel was carved out of property owned at the time by a reform temple, whose prominent members include the town attorney and the chief building inspector’s wife.  The following is based on a review of court documents in two cases brought against the developer of Viola Gardens.

The first case dealt with the developer’s efforts to “spot-zone” the property – downsizing a single zoning lot, a practice that is generally illegal.  The lot allowed for 9 single-family homes, but the developer wanted to build condominium units for 44 families, almost 5 times the original density.  A neighbor sued, and they settled on terms that nevertheless allowed the 44 units, but nothing more.

Once construction began, however, there were signs that the developer was building an additional apartment for each unit, breaking not only the agreement, but also local law since the spot-zoned lot he created did not permit accessory apartments.  Additional apartments would have increased the density to 88 families, almost 10 times the original density of 9 families.

But here’s where things took a different turn.  Although they were told there’s nothing they could do, it’s the way of the world here in Monsey, the neighbors grouped together, explored options and began raising money.  A delegation met with developer.  According to an affirmation filed in the neighbors’ subsequent action, the developer “plainly admitted at said meeting that, from the very inception of the Project, he had built and intends to sell the dwelling units as single units with accessory apartments.”  The neighbors asked him to abide by his original agreement, but to no avail:  “When asked if he would limit the Project to 44 units without accessory apartments,” the affirmation continues, “[the developer] flatly and repeatedly refused.”

The group then sought daas Torah from a major posek in choshen mishpat who said, according to a ksav shown to the author, that the neighbors were allowed to complain to the authorities and go to secular courts, and that there was no problem of mesirah.

The group made a formal complaint to the chief building inspector, detailing the ways the developer was breaking local laws and regulations.  It was ignored.

At that point, the group had no choice but to go to court, commencing the second case in connection with this project.  They named the developer, the builder and the chief building inspector as defendants.  The defendants’ argument was expected – until the project is completely built and multiple families actually move in, there is no actual violation of any law.  Plaintiffs argued that this would reward the defendants’ wrongdoing – at that point the town would say, as it’s done so often before, that it’s too late and claim they have no choice but to grant additional variances retroactively.  Besides, the additional apartments may have already been built.

The judge wasn’t buying the defendants’ argument.  He took judicial notice of the pervasive corruption in this town, thereby establishing such corruption as incontrovertible fact (itself a sorry statement on our affairs).  Indeed, almost as if on cue, within days the co-defendant building inspector was arrested on over 100 felony charges of showing illegal favoritism to such builders and developers as his co-defendants.

Before ruling on plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order, the judge ordered an inspection – not by the town, but by plaintiffs.  Plaintiffs hired an architect and engineer who took pictures and compiled a formal site visit report.  What they found was extraordinary, even by Ramapo standards.  The report showed not just one additional apartment per unit (with separate boilers, heating units, plumbing lines, electrical panels – all clearly labeled for the additional apartment – even an additional kitchen), but at least three other additional apartments as well. As plaintiffs’ attorney stated, these egregious violations were nothing short of outright fraud.

The total number of additional apartments would have led to at least 176 families on land originally designated for 9, a density of almost 20 times, or 2000%, of what was contemplated under the zoning laws of the town.  The development has a one-lane service road connecting to Viola Road, itself one lane in each direction.  The enormity of the problem created when 176 families – each with, say, 5 to 10 children – need to enter and exit through a one-lane street onto Viola Road is mind-boggling.

The judge gave the town just one day to decide whether to order work stopped at the property.   At that point, even the town could not look away.   Over the developer’s objections, all work was halted completely by the time of the next days’ hearing, and the cozy relationship between the town and a developer, at least in this case, and at least for the time being, was broken.

No doubt the town and the developer, out of the harsh spotlight of the courtroom for now, are trying to figure out their next moves. But the nearby residents learned a valuable lesson:  if they work together to raise resources, explore options pursuant to daas Torah, and take legal action where necessary then, with siyata dishmaya, not only can something be done to stop this abuse, but the abuse they stop may be much greater than they thought.

{Matzav.com}

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