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Integrity?

Dear, who served 18 years in the council representing Brooklyn's Borough Park, and who once boasted a close relationship to Bill Clinton due to his ability to raise money for the Clinton-Gore ticket among New York's Orthodox Jewish business community, came in for blistering language in a recent FEC audit. During his unsuccessful run for the Ninth District congressional seat representing Brooklyn and Queens (a seat won by Anthony Weiner), auditors found that Dear and campaign treasurer Abraham Roth—a certified public accountant—accepted "several sets of sequentially numbered money orders." The money, purportedly from 47 individual contributors, totalled about $40,000.

When interviewed, however, those whose names appeared on the money orders told FEC investigators they had never made donations to Dear's committee.

So where did the money orders come from? Auditors discovered that the culprits were two key aides to Dear's campaign committee. Nicholas Lagemann, Dear's campaign finance director, and Bella Vais, his chief of staff, "executed at least some of those money orders in the name of others," according to a civil complaint filed against Dear in federal court.

Nor were fraudulent money orders the only problem the audit found. In his 1998 campaign, Dear accepted a whopping $564,000 in contributions that exceeded federal limits, according to the FEC. Dear's committee agreed to return the excess contributions, and in its midyear 1999 filing claimed to have done just that, making refunds of more than $300,000. But that wasn't true either, auditors discovered. In fact, the complaint stated, the refunds were never made. As late as June 2003, when the FEC, unable to get Dear to agree to pay up, filed its complaint, he still had failed to refund more than $200,000 of the excess contributions.

Last month, Dear and Roth, his former campaign treasurer, quietly agreed to pay fines to resolve the matter. Roth pledged to pay $45,000, while Dear will ante up all the remaining funds in two committees, Dear for Congress and Friends of Noach Dear '93. It's not much. In its last filings, Dear for Congress listed $710 in cash on hand and debts of $148,000; Dear '93 no longer exists.

Since term limits forced him out of his council seat, Dear has been perpetually seeking elected office. He ran in 2002 for a newly created state senate post in Flatbush, but was defeated by political novice Kevin Parker. This year, he is again running for the seat, and his new state committee (which is off-limits to the FEC's enforcement agents) lists $290,582 in funds raised. Dear didn't respond to several messages left at his home and at his current campaign office.

 

New York Times, 10 February 1993, Section B, Page 1:

"Councilman Dear Settles Suit Over Misuse of Charitable Funds" by James Bennet.

First two sentences of article:

"New York City Councilman Noach Dear has agreed to repay more than $37,000 to a private foundation that paid for expenses like telephones in his home and trips abroad by his children, under a civil settlement announced yesterday by Robert Abrams, the New York Attorney General.

Richard Barr, a spokesman for Mr. Abrams, said yesterday that Mr. Dear, a conservative Brooklyn Democrat elected in 1982, broke laws governing charities when he used money from a foundation he helped create to pay for expenses ranging from calls from his car phone to a plane ticket for his wife."

 

Integrity, honesty, and Hard Working.

Pinkt Azoi. Gut Gezugt. Vat a Vunderful Judge he'll make!

Mamesh a Farginegin the Kiddush Hashem he'll make.

Vee vill all shep Nachas!

His tdreack record makes him truly deserving of our support and votes.

Such Yiras Shomayim and Mentshlichkeit.

Vat a Vunderful Steadfastly Moral Assemblyman for standing behind his man!

Mamesh.

Hee hee.

 

hey, he may be a crook, but he's OUR crook!

 

True, he's our Crook, so let's send him to that nice "country club" penitentiary place upstate, where he would have gone if not for his well funded lawyers, and make sure he gets, a Talis, Tfillin and Kosher meals, NOT to Civil Court!

What are we, totally Meshiga?

 

HIS SLOGAN SHOULD BE FORGIVE AND FORGET, I NEED THE MONEY.

 

He is an embarrassment to frum yidden. He should get a regular job and stay out of politics.

 

His Lexus license plate reads"NYC TLC", he is a "Commissioner "in the TLC, have you heard about any thing he did there? Matthew Daus is the Chairman of TLC

 

TLC on his plates?- It stands for:

Total Lies Continuously!

 

WHERE ARE THE SANITATION TICKET AGENTS?????????

We get $100 tickets for every poster and he gets away with it?

 

Does it say "no one more qualified" on the bottom of the poster, or are my eyes playing tricks on me?

No one more qualified ???

Is he trying to be a comedian now ?

 

He didn't finish the sentence! He meant NO ONE IS MORE $QUALIIFIED$ TO GET DOV TO BACK THEM.

Comedian, now we're talking. A possible Jackie Mason II, Mamesh.

With Darling Dov as his sidekick. Naughty Nasty Noach and Daring Disappointing Dov.

 

HONESTY, INTEGRETY, NO ONE MORE QUALIFIED? WHAT A JOKE! HE HAS HAD PAST PROBLEMS WITH HONESTY AND INTEGRETY AND FACED JUDGES OVER THESE ISSUES. SINCE HE'S A LAWYER WHO HAS NEVER PRACTICED LAW, WOULD ONE ASSUME THAT ANY LAWYER WHO HAS PRACTICED IS MORE QUALIFIED.

WHAT A JOKE!

 

Dov and Noach for Noach!

Only a fake phony fraud like Dov would sneak him in as a Judge, seeing to it that he get in w/o an election/opponents.