Feds Investigating Satmar-Shalom Lamm Bloomingburg Development Over Possible Illegal Fair Housing Act Violations

There is an open Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) investigation into what appear to be clear Fair Housing Act violations by Modern Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm and Satmar hasidim regarding Lamm's Blomingburg, New York Satmar-only townhouse development.

I reported two days ago that the Forward's article on the new Satmar 'village' in Bloomingburg, New York, omitted clear Fair Housing Law violations committed by Satmar (and, perhaps, Lamm).

I have now been told by Michele I. Yuan, the attorney who brought the matter to HUD's attention, that there is an open  Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) investigation into these violations – a fact, I'm told, Yuan told the Forward's reporter. Yet news of the investigation was omitted from the Forward's story, just as the Forward omitted reporting the evidence of the violations.

I've written before that the Forward is unethical and that it is tilting its stories intentionally to appeal to Satmar hasidim in the hope that it can lure some of them to regularly read its Yiddish-language edition – which is viewed as the primary reason for the Forward Association's existence.

The Forward's publisher told me personally that eliminating information from an article that misleadingly changed the article's implied meaning and/or the correct context of the facts the article reports is ethical and not a problem – something that two top journalism ethics experts teaching at major universities told me was abhorrent and absolutely incorrect.

Is this another example of the Forward lying by omission?

It sure looks like it.

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Comments

[dh]

I think you have to exhaust this this HUD administrative remedy in order to obtain a 'right to sue.' That's the way it was in the past. Historically HUD was lazy and a mere stepping stone to get to court.

[Context]

You realize that "open investigations" with HUD mean nothing, right?

Any loser or agitator can request one, even repeated frivolous ones, and their wishes are granted.

There were many complaints filed by Blacks against Jewish landlords in NJ. Some of them were validated but ALL of the ones filed by a low level NAACP official / anti-Semitic agitator, I think his name is Hurd, were found to be baseless from what I recall.

By the same token you can call some environmental agency to complain that Satmar laid rodent bait outdoors that is not Federally approved and then BLARE in the headlines about some scandalous "investigation" when a govt staffer drives by to take a look.

The Forward is dreaming by the way if they think they can attract Satmar readership.

Did you make that nonsense up or did someone at the Forward say it?

[Shmarya Rosenberg]

Archie,

Your BS is showing.

The Fair Housing Act prohibits the 16-page advertising insert in Der Yid for Lamm's development and prohibits other stories and adverts for it in the Yiddish press.

I've already discussed this with national legal experts on the Fair Housing Act.

As for you, you've been repeatedly banned and you are banned again.

You're finished.

[dh]

Taken in context, and not unidimensionally, exhausting the preliminary administrative remedy gets you into Federal Court. This claim was filed by a lawyer, not "by Blacks against Jewish landlords," because that is where she is headed.

[dh]

yeah, what he said....

[SimonF]

This article is all about Shmarya's childish vendetta against The Forward.

His claims about Satmar and the Yiddish version of The Forward are patently ridiculous.

The fact that he continues to infect his attempts at serious journalism with this childish personal crap and his obsessive insistence on always being right (notwithstanding the fact that he is right probably 95% of the time) are the reason why Failed Messiah will continue to fail, compared to what it could be if he would just restrain himself and try to act professionally.

[Shmarya Rosenberg]

What I wrote is the truth.

[Porque]

Don't put on such a show of naivite.
"Eliminating information from an article that misleadingly changed the article's implied meaning and/or the correct context of the facts the article reports" is a common tactic used by the liberal media, something that anyone who claims to know what's going on should know! The Forward is not breaking any new ground here so don't act so horribly shocked and disgusted by the Forward's statement. If your reporting has any worth, you should know better!

[dh]

SimonF, if you don't like Shmarya's blog or it's content or him or anything herein that you perceive as a vendetta then go elsewhere. You are not who defines journalism and we're not interested in your opinion. You can define morons because you are one, although we are still not interested.

Start your own blog and check back in ten years. You're so scared of him you can only talk about him as though he's not in the room. A real leader, you are.

[SimonF]

Dh, so only 100% supportive comments are allowed, according to you? And you claim to speak for everyone? What a truly bizarre perspective.

And what's this sarcasm about me being a leader? Where did you come up with that? Very weird all round.