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Breaking!! Moshe Menachem Taubenfeld Arrested in Rockland for Alleged Sexual Abuse

On the Difference Between Theory and Practice

If You Think the NY Post Was Mean to Slain Slumlord Stark . . .

If you think the New York Post was mean to slain slumlord Menachem Stark when it ran a story with the front page headline, “Who didn’t want him dead?” check out the conduct of other newspapers owned by tabloid mogul, Rupert Murdoch. The Economist  describes Murdoch as “inventing the modern tabloid”, as he developed a pattern for his newspapers, increasing sports and scandal coverage and adopting eye-catching headlines.”

According to his Wikipedia entry, “On acquiring… [the Sun in the UK, Murdoch] appointed Albert ‘Larry’ Lamb as editor and… told him: “I want a tearaway paper with lots of tits in it.””

Besides being a vulgar sensationalist, Murdoch is notorious for his exploitation of  victimized families, most famously the family of murdered English schoolgirl, Milly Dowler as carried out by his UK tabloid, the News of the World.

Abraham Rubin Pays with Jail Time for Trying to Bribe Weberman Witnesses

Abraham Rubin

Abraham Rubin offered a cool half a million to the Nechemya Weberman victim and her boyfriend to bollix the trial by going to Israel (and refusing to return for the trial). Her boyfriend recorded the offer and notified the DA who sat on the evidence until Charles Joe Hynes was taking heat from the press for coddling ultra-orthodox sex offenders. Then, Hynes turned on a dime and did a highly publicized arrest of Rubin and the three Berger brothers who also threatened the boyfriend (now the husband) of the victim. The Berger brothers were the sons of the rabbi who certified the kosher status of the boyfriend’s restaurant. When he would not back down they removed the certification. Without the certification or anyone else in Williamsburg willing to take over the certification, the boyfriend’s business failed.

For twenty-four years Hynes managed to never send a single ultra-orthodox Jew to jail for intimidating or bribing a witness or victim of sex abuse. That’s right, not a single day. Hynes blustered about them being worse than the mafia, but he ingratiated himself to their dons, sucked up their money and votes, and in return laid off on witness intimidation.

Today, that changed. Abraham Rubin got sentenced to