The tiny, bucolic village of Bloomingburg in upstate New York boasts a picture-postcard prettiness, with rolling hills, weather-beam barns and an old-fashioned ice cream spot. But the battle between locals and Orthodox Jewish developers has cast a pall over the place, and now the long-running saga has taken another strange turn with the builders pleading…
In his years-long battle to build thousands of homes for Orthodox Jews in the small upstate New York village of Bloomingburg, developer Shalom Lamm often cast himself as a victim of anti-Semitism. On Tuesday, Lamm took on a new role: admitted felon. Lamm, son of one of Modern Orthodoxy’s most prominent rabbinic leaders, pled guilty…
A few months ago, real estate developer Shalom Lamm’s attempt to grow a Hasidic shtetl in Bloomingburg, New York, collided with a brick wall. Federal agents arrested Lamm and two colleagues, charging them with conspiring to corrupt village elections in Bloomingburg. In a single morning, years of careful planning and delicate maneuverings seemed to have…
Correction Appended The case of Jewish real estate developers charged with voter fraud in the Catskills will continue through the federal court system this week, a legacy of dismissed U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Shalom Lamm and co-conspirators Kenneth Nakdimen and Volvy Smilowitz are accused of federal voter fraud conspiracy in a bid to elect public…
A meeting of fire commissioners in Bloomingburg turned sour last night amid recriminations over the federal voter fraud indictments that have rocked the upstate New York village, the Times Herald-Record reported. Federal prosecutors indicted Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm last week on charges that he and two other men conspired to register ineligible voters to participate…
Bloomingburg is heading back to war. Officials in an upstate New York town are preparing new efforts to fight the construction of a Satmar Hasidic village after prosecutors indicted the project’s developer, Shalom Lamm, on charges that he conspired to rig local elections. Lamm has worked for years on a secret plan to build 5,000…
Two weeks ago, it seemed like the Satmar Hasidim had won the fight for Bloomingburg. The tiny village 80 miles north of New York City had been the site of a raging battle between an Orthodox developer named Shalom Lamm and a group of stubborn locals for four years over Lamm’s plans to build homes…
Federal prosecutors have charged Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm and two of his colleagues with conspiring to corrupt local elections in the upstate New York village of Bloomingburg by registering non-residents to vote there. This story is no longer being updated. Click here for the latest on the Bloomingburg indictments. According to an indictment filed in…
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