Case of Rabbi Jerry Brauner

Case of Rabbi Jerry Brauner
(AKA:  Yechiel Brauner)

Brauner Kosher Bakery Employee

Boro Park, Brooklyn, NY

 

Convicted on the charges of Sexual Abuse-1st Degree and Sexual Abuse-3rd:Subject Another Person to Sex Contact Without Consent.  He was sentenced to 11 years probation, with the condition he must participate in a sex offender treatment program.  Brauner has been on probation since 2002 for the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy.

 

On December 27, 2006, Jerry Brauner was arrested on charges of stealing a half-million-dollar home from a cancer-stricken woman, using a forged power of attorney to sell it and pocket the profits.  Brauner is being held in lieu of $85,000 bail for lying about prior sex-abuse convictions when he applied for his notary's license. 

 

Jerry Brauner currently is employed at Brauner's Kosher Bakery, which is owned by his father. 

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Table of Contents:   

 

2006
 

1. New York Sex Offender Registry  (02/12/2006)
2. B'KLYN House 'Theft'  (12/28/2006)
3. House was stolen in a pen stroke  (12/28/2006)
4. Three Indicted For Stealing Cancer Victim's House  (12/30/2006)
5. Yechiel (Jerry) Brauner, the Molester Rebbe SHLIT"A back on the streets  (12/30/2006)
6. Three charged with stealing home from dying woman  (12/30/2006)

2007

1. Brooklyn DA Announces Indictment of Three Men For Stealing a Home from Elderly Cancer Victim  (01/02/2007)
   
2. BEWARE! - Convicted child molester Yechiel Brauner gets new car (08/01/2007)
   

2011

1. After years of ignoring the problem, haredi synagogue bans serial pedophile (02/15/2011)

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New York Sex Offender Registry

February 12, 2006

http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/nsor/search_index.htm

 

Current Reported Offender Details

County of Kings

 

Offender Id: 14693

Last Name: BRAUNER      First Name: JERRY      Middle Name:

DOB: Dec 9, 1953              Sex: Male

Risk Level: 3                      Race: White                 Ethnicity: Unknown

Height: 5'08"                     Weight: 230                  Hair: Gray

Eyes: Blue                         Corr. Lens: YES

Reported Address: 1319 54TH ST 2ND FLOOR

City: BROOKLYN               State: NY                      Zip Code: 11219

Sex Offender Type

Designation: No Designation Applies

Other Address Info or Status:

Conviction:

Date Arrest            Agency Suprv. Agency                                        

Mar 21, 2002     NYCPD Sex Offender Unit Kings County Probation Adult Investigations   

Victim Sex/Age: Male, Unknown

Conviction Charges:

(Please note: a conviction for an attempt is generally punishable at one grade below the classification of the crime attempted, i.e., a rape 2nd degree is punishable as a class D felony while an attempted rape 2nd degree is punishable as a class E felony.)

Title Section Subsection Class Category Degree Description

PL 130.65 D F 1 Sexual Abuse-1st Degree

PL 130.55 B M 3 Sexual Abuse-3rd:Subject Another Person to Sex Contact Without Consent

Sentence:

Probation Sentence: 11 Year(s).

Maximum Expiration Date/post Release Supervision Date of Sentence:

The legal dates posted on this site are the dates which were reported at the time of registration and are subject to change. The conditions of supervision are subject to change during the supervision period. The special conditions of release do not apply past the maximum expiration date of sentence because the offender is no longer under supervision by the listed supervising agency for this crime.

Mar 21, 2012

Scars, Marks & Tattoos:

Description

Additional Names/Aliases:

Last Name First Name Middle Name

College Info:

Employed/Attend     Name     Street     City     State     Zip

Employer Info:

Status                Street                            City                     State    Zip

Current              5405 13TH AVENUE      BROOKLYN         NY       11219

Vehicles:

Lic. Plate No.            State        Vehicle      Year        Make/Model           Color

BRAUNR                      NY                             1990          Oldsmobile Unknown      White

CKC8205                     NY                             1994          Oldsmobile Unknown      Green

291735                         NY                             2001          Chevrolet Suburban        Tan

Special Conditions:

Special Conditions: Participate in sex offender treatment program.

Offense Description & Modus Operandi:

Offense Description: Actual Sexual Contact

Relationship to victim: Unknown

Weapon used: Unknown

Force used: Unknown

Computer used: Unknown

 

Pornography involved: Unknown

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B'KLYN House 'Theft'

By ALEX GINSBERG

New York Post - December 28, 2006

A devious cabal that included a pedophile rabbi stole a half-million-dollar home from a cancer-stricken woman, using a forged power of attorney to sell it and pocket the profits, Brooklyn prosecutors charged yesterday.

 

According to investigators, Margaret Franklin's Crown Heights home was stolen in August 2004 after Nathen Farkas, 31, forged a power of attorney, signing Franklin's name, that effectively handed control of her assets to co-defendant Russell Pitt.

 

The power of attorney was notarized by a third defendant, Jerry Brauner, 53, a rabbi who had been on probation since 2002 for the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy.

 

Pitt then "sold" the property to the fourth defendant, Winston Roche, 59, and a $476,000 mortgage was split among Roche, Pitt and Farkas.

 

"Margaret Franklin never got a nickel," said Assistant DA Michael Vaccaro. "Then she died."

 

Farkas was ordered held in lieu of $85,000 bail and Roche on $45,000. Pitt is still at large.

 

Brauner was held in lieu of $85,000 bail for lying about prior sex-abuse convictions when he applied for his notary's license.

 

Lawyers for the three men arraigned yesterday denied that their clients knew anything sinister was going on, suggesting Pitt was the mastermind.

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House was stolen in a pen stroke
By Alex Ginsberg
New York Post - December 28, 2006

A devious cabal that included a pedophile rabbi stole a half- million-dollar home from a cancer-stricken woman, using a forged power of attorney to sell it and pocket the profits, Brooklyn prosecutors charged yesterday. 

According to investigators, Margaret Franklin's Crown Heights home was stolen in August 2004 after Nathen Farkas, 31, forged a power of attorney, signing Franklin's name, that effectively handed control of her assets to co-defendant Russell Pitt. 

The power of attorney was notarized by a third defendant, Jerry Brauner, 53, a rabbi who had been on probation since 2002 for the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy. 

Pitt then "sold" the property to the fourth defendant, Winston Roche, 59, and a $476,000 mortgage was split among Roche, Pitt and Farkas. 

"Margaret Franklin never got a nickel," said Assistant DA Michael Vaccaro. "Then she died." 

Pitt, Farkas and Roche all face second-degree grand larceny conspiracy and other charges.

Farkas was ordered held on $85,000 bail and Roche on $45,000. Pitt is still at large. 

Brauner was held on $85,000 bail for lying about prior sex-abuse convictions when he applied for his notary's license. 

Lawyers for the three men arraigned yesterday denied that their clients knew anything sinister was going on, suggesting Pitt was the mastermind.

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Three Indicted For Stealing Cancer Victim's House

North country Gazette - December 30, 2006

BROOKLYN-Three Brooklyn men have been indicted on charges of stealing the home of an elderly Brooklyn woman while she was dying of cancer.

 

The trio is charged with forging documents to give defendant Russell Pitt power of attorney over a building owned by the woman at 39 Herkimer Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The indictment charges that in September 2004, Nathan Farkas and Pitt sold the home to Winston Roche, 59. However, Roche was allegedly involved in the criminal conspiracy, and he and the other defendants divided the $476,000 mortgage. The woman died in 2005.

 

Prosecutors said that one defendant, Jerry Brauner, 53, who notarized the power of attorney, is charged with falsifying a notary public renewal application, in which he denied that he was a convicted felon.

 

At their arraignments, Farkas, 31, and Brauner were held in lieu of $85,000 bail. Roche's bail was set at $45,000. Pitt remains at large.

 

Brauner is charged with first degree offering a false instrument.. Charges against Farkas, Roche and Pitt include second degree grand larceny, fourth degree conspiracy and second degree forgery.

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Yechiel (Jerry) Brauner, the Molester Rebbe SHLIT"A back on the streets

Chaptzem Blog - December 30, 2006 

Convicted sex offender Yechiel Brauner is back on the streets again after his latest arrest. Brauner who is currently on probation for fondling a 15 year-old boy in a hearst on the way to his grandmother's levaya is now again in trouble for allgedly falsifying documents, conspiring to rob a dying old woman of her home and for failing to report that he was a sex offender when he applied for his notary public. Brauner was released on $85,000 bail and was leibing and laching again. To add insult to injury, Brauner davened Mincha this Erev Shabbos for the Umed.

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New York Sex Offender Registry

February 28, 2007

http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/nsor/search_index.htm

 

Current Reported Offender Details

County of Kings

Offender Id: 14693

Last Name: BRAUNER      First Name: JERRY      Middle Name:

DOB: Dec 9, 1953              Sex: Male

Risk Level: 3                      Race: White                 Ethnicity: Unknown

Height: 5'08"                      Weight: 230                Hair: Gray

Eyes: Blue                          Corr. Lens: YES

Reported Address: 1319 54TH ST 2ND FLOOR

City: BROOKLYN                State: NY                   Zip Code: 11219

Sex Offender Type

Designation: No Designation Applies

Other Address Info or Status:

Conviction:

Date Arrest                 Agency Suprv. Agency                                        

Mar 21, 2002               NYCPD Sex Offender Unit Kings County Probation Adult  

                                    Investigations   

Victim Sex/Age:Male, Unknown

Conviction Charges:

(Please note: a conviction for an attempt is generally punishable at one grade below the classification of the crime attempted, i.e., a rape 2nd degree is punishable as a class D felony while an attempted rape 2nd degree is punishable as a class E felony.)

 

Title Section Subsection Class Category Degree Description

PL 130.65 D F 1 Sexual Abuse-1st Degree

PL 130.55 B M 3 Sexual Abuse-3rd:Subject Another Person to Sex Contact Without Consent

 

Sentence:

Probation Sentence: 11 Year(s).

 

Maximum Expiration Date/post Release Supervision Date of Sentence:

The legal dates posted on this site are the dates which were reported at the time of registration and are subject to change. The conditions of supervision are subject to change during the supervision period. The special conditions of release do not apply past the maximum expiration date of sentence because the offender is no longer under supervision by the listed supervising agency for this crime.

 

Mar 21, 2012

Scars, Marks & Tattoos:

Description

Additional Names/Aliases:

Last Name First Name Middle Name

College Info:

Employed/Attend     Name     Street     City     State     Zip

Employer Info:

Status               Street                City              State    Zip

Current              5405 13TH AVENUE      BROOKLYN         NY       11219

Vehicles:

Lic. Plate No.            State        Vehicle      Year        Make/Model           Color

BRAUNR                      NY                             1990          Oldsmobile Unknown      White

CKC8205                      NY                             1994          Oldsmobile Unknown      Green

291735                         NY                             2001          Chevrolet Suburban        Tan

Special Conditions:

Special Conditions: Participate in sex offender treatment program.

Offense Description & Modus Operandi:

Offense Description: Actual Sexual Contact

Relationship to victim: Unknown

Weapon used: Unknown

Force used: Unknown

Computer used: Unknown

Pornography involved: Unknown

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Three charged with stealing home from dying woman

Empire State News - December 30, 2007

Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes Thursday announced the indictment of three men charged with stealing an elderly Brooklyn woman's home, while she was dying of cancer.

 

The men are charged with forging documents to give defendant Russell Pitt power of attorney over a building owned by the woman at 39 Herkimer Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The indictment charges that in September 2004, Nathen Farkas and Pitt sold the home to 59-year-old Winston Roche. However, Roche was involved in the criminal conspiracy, and he and the other defendants divided the $476,000 mortgage. The woman died in 2005.

 

One defendant, Jerry Brauner, 53, who notarized the power of attorney, is charged with falsifying a notary public renewal application, in which he denied that he was a convicted felon.

 

At their arraignments, Farkas, 31, and Brauner were held in lieu of $85,000 bail. Roche's bail was set at $45,000. Pitt remains at large.

 

Brauner is charged with Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree. Charges against Farkas, Roche, and Pitt include Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, Conspiracy in Fourth Degree and Forgery in the Second Degree.

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Brooklyn DA Announces Indictment of Three Men For Stealing a Home from Elderly Cancer Victim
Brooklyn Eagle - Janurary 2, 2007


BROOKLYN — Three Brooklyn men were indicted this week for allegedly stealing an elderly woman's home while she was dying of cancer. A fourth man remains at large.
 
The defendants are charged with forging documents to give defendant Russell Pitt power of attorney over a building the woman owned at 39 Herkimer St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
 
The indictment charges that in September 2004, Pitt and Nathen Farkas sold the home to Winston Roche. Roche, who is also charged in the scheme, allegedly divided the $476,000 mortgage with the other defendants. The woman died in 2005.
 
Defendant Jerry Brauner, who notarized Pitt's power of attorney, is charged with falsifying a notary public renewal application in which he denied that he was a convicted felon.
 
At their arraignments Wednesday, Farkas, 31, and Brauner, 53, were held in lieu of $85,000 bail. Bail for Roche, 59, was set at $45,000. Police are still searching for Pitt.
 
Brauner is charged with offering a false instrument for filing. Charges against Farkas, Roche, and Pitt include second-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree conspiracy and second-degree forgery.
Assistant District Attorney Michael Vaccaro is prosecuting the case for the Kings County District Attorney's Office.

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BEWARE! - Convicted child molester Yechiel Brauner gets new car
Chaptzem Blog - August 01, 2007


Convicted Boro-Park child molester Yechiel Brauner was seen driving a new car that is not listed on his offender registry entry. The car is a light blue late 90's model Mercury Grand Marquis with the license plate number BHZ 5385. There is a handicap permit hanging from the rear-view mirror and the back lights of the car are broken and have lens tape on them. Warn your children and teenagers not to accept any rides from the man driving this car.

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After Years of Ignoring the Problem, Haredi Synagogue Bans Serial Pedophile
By Shmyra Rosenberg
Failed Messiah - November 15, 2011

Jerry Yechiel Brauner is a notorious Borough Park pedophile who was just released from a psychiatric facility. One of his favored stomping grounds is the Shomer Shabbos synagogue, a popular neighborhood minyan factory. For years, the rabbi who runs Shomer Shabbos refused to ban Brauner. Instead, he honored him, having him lead parts of the High Holiday services. But that has finally changed.

Nuchem Rosenberg is reporting that the hierarchy of Shomer Shabbos synagogue at 53rd and 13th in Borough Park have decided to ban Jerry Yechiel Brauner, barring him from entering the building.

I imagine the guys at Chaptzem, who have been complaining about Brauner and Shomer Shabbos for years, must be thrilled that their work is finally paying off.

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