The Plot
Yoel Friedman has endured many hardships in life due to developmental disabilities. Nevertheless, he has worked hard to support himself and lived a quiet life until August 2018. He had a job, two businesses, was happily living with his wife, Sarah, and their two kids. Shortly thereafter, everything changed.
At the age of 37, after getting by on his own for years, Yoel’s freedom and dignity was savagely torn from him when his own brother filed a petition with the court to declare Yoel an incapacitated person and completely took over his care. After being declared Yoel’s guardians in September 2018, his brother, Yehudah, and sister, Faigy, proceeded to neglect their duties of care while leaving Yoel in an increasingly restricted position to meet his own needs. They cut off his access to other forms of aid and isolated him from his wife and family.
Yoel’s wife Sarah was also threatened with potential guardianship. Wanting to stay out of trouble, she kept quiet, remaining distant. For Yoel, the situation became unbearable, and he was unable to find the support he once had. In his own words, Yoel felt he was left with no means to survive.
What kinds of people would do this to another person? Was it truly malintent or simply a misguided attempt to aid a family member who was so different from the rest of society? “In order to force me to surrender…to their full control and direction, they must destroy any accomplishments or help I got [or] will get without them,” Yoel said of the situation.
Where was the justice? What of his human right to autonomy and the ability to live life on his own terms? What follows is the remarkable story of Yoel Friedman’s imprisonment. Many details of Yoel’s situation and the evidence used in his court cases have been classified, made not even available to his family. The lack of details available in his case allows the injustice to live on unchecked. This site was established to expose the malevolent scheme against him with the hopes of raising awareness of the injustices he and others like him have faced.
Background
Yoel Friedman has, from a very young age, never received help to develop and function properly and was incapacitated about how to communicate with others as a result. Nonetheless, he was able to minimally function on his own to earn a living. Around March 2004, Yoel married Sarah Friedman, had two children, and they lived together until September 2018, when he was kidnapped and his minimal function was destroyed. No one ever made an effort to get a professional opinion about Yoel’s incapacity.
As a result of childhood incapacitation, Yoel struggled to earn a living until January 2010, when he managed to find employment as a kindergarten teacher at Vayoel Moshe Religious Elementary School in Monroe, NY. He was employed there until September 2018. In March 2014, Yoel bought an apartment in Monroe, NY, where he resided with Sarah and their two children.
With assistance from his brother Ben, around January 2016, Yoel successfully developed two separate businesses, Mung Beans USA, and Friedman’s Real Food, producing and marketing various specialty whole foods and shakes in the Kosher market in New York. He operated this business until September 2018.
Yoel was always able to manage and pay his bills and expenses on time and entirely by himself until September 2018. Yoel’s incapacity required educative help to teach him how to communicate with others, but Yoel was never in a situation that required, in any way, someone to be guardian over his finances.
On that day in 2018, Yoel was told that he must surrender and submit to other people’s control, something they labeled as “help”. When Yoel refused, he was told that since he was incapable of understanding this by himself, they must force this (purported) “help” on him against his will.
Thereafter, in late August 2018, Yoel’s brother Yehudah filed a petition with the Orange County Supreme Court to declare Yoel an incapacitated person, and be appointed as guardian for Yoel. On September 11, 2018, before the court made any ruling, Yehuda forcibly removed and kidnapped Yoel from his apartment, seized all of Yoel’s belongings, assets, money, property, IDs, banking, other documentations and took away Yoel’s independence.
Yoel had lost all control of his life.
State Court Judge Robert Onofry, though having been notified, still allowed this to happen and continue, despite the obvious and illegal plot. In early January 2019, Judge Onofry granted Yehuda’s petition to appoint him and his sister, Faigy Tyrnauer, as guardians. That order provided, among other things, for the guardians’ exclusive power of controlling Yoel’s monies, assets, payroll checks, business, and any other income and bill payments.
Yoel’s payroll checks went to the guardians. He was not able to apply for public assistance since he no longer possessed his IDs. Yoel is constantly in need and must beg others for food, shelter, and other basic necessities. In late July 2019, the court replaced his sibling guardians with Sarah’s brother, Joel Teitelbaum. The guardianship orders the guardian must provide and care for Yoel, including shelter, a place of residency, food, clothing, medical care, and all other basic necessities.
To date, Yoel has received zero assistance whatsoever, no shelter, food, maintenance, funds, clothing, transportation, medical healthcare, or any and other basic life necessities, let alone religious and cultural needs.
Since August 2018, Yoel has communicated numerous times with Judge Onofry’s office and Orange County Adult Protective Services (APS), to inform them that his basic needs are not being provided for and that he feels completely neglected and ignored.
While the basic provisions from the court order have been neglected by his guardians, Yoel is still restricted from taking care of these needs himself. On one hand, the proclaimed “helpers” 
declared Yoel as incapacitated and disabled, while simultaneously refusing to provide the life necessities that any other disabled person would get.
Yoel has been blocked access to court. The county, APS, and the court all turned a blind eye and refuse to hear his pleas for help.
August 13, 2021
Yoel Friedman
No current address
Monroe New York 10950
Tel.: (845) 662-1375
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From Kiryas Joel Village:
About Kiryas Joel Village
Kiryas Joel Village and allied religious groups violate the Constitution and take control of federal and state courts
This site was opened to expose the corrupted and fraudulent actions of the religiously controlled Kiryas Joel Village, NY. Together with other religious groups, the leaders of the KJ Village control in a mafia-like manner, often under color of law, how community constituents must behave and block the freedoms of whomever they deem problematic and a threat to their mafia-control system.
The KJ Village has a history of harassing people in the community and abusing its political power to get what they want—regardless of whose rights they trample on—in a way that no other city in this country has ever done. The village and allied religious groups are involved in orchestrated powerful and systemic church and state violations, civil rights violations, violating free speech and freedom of religion, taking control of state and federal courts, and systemic terror against those deemed a problem.
This site and blog is open to anyone, and as the Village and other religious groups continue in the corrupt manner, this site will serve to expose their fraud. Join the fight to stop this abuse of political power.
This federal action was brought by a resident in this Hasidic, ultra-Orthodox, close-knit community of KJ Village, who became a terror victim once he spoke out against criminal actions done under false religious pretenses.
In 2010, he got involved in a campaign to stop forced divorces that have been taking place through the use of criminal kidnappings within the community. Threatened by the campaign, some people aligned with the mafia religious groups in the community tried to silence him by constantly terrorizing and intimidating him. Officials from Orange County and others outside the community where then joined in their campaign to stop him.
After protracted terror and civil rights violations, in which county officials had played along to fraudulently facilitate these violations under color of law, he filed a lawsuit in federal court against his terrorizers, including the KJ Village and Orange County seeking protection and justice.
Subsequently the harassment and intimidation picked up with increased fervor and he soon found himself extremely terrorized, expelled from the Village, and homeless. His family was broken up and his children were taken from him—all in a plot to block his access to courts and stop his involvement in the religious campaign.
The religious groups and the mafia behind this terror in conjunction with the KJ Village then decided to use their powerful connections and political influence to conspire with the County Attorney as well as the other attorneys involved to contact the federal judge presiding over the case, Judge Briccetti, and convince him to back off and turn a blind eye, in the same manner they did with the State Judge.
Not only did Judge Briccetti stop performing his role as a neutral judge, but, acting under the influence of the KJ Village, he also became a participant in furthering the object of the conspiracy. The victim has now brought another lawsuit in federal court to set aside Judge Briccetti’s actions as it was induced by fraud.
Documents
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Petition for Guardianship August 28, ’18
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Order for Guardianship January 3, ’19
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Letter to Court August 6, ’21 (response to email)
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Response from Court August 6, ’21
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Amended Letter response to Court August 9, ’21
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Order dated August 11, ’21, appointing MHLS
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Order dated August 11, ’21, to file a Report
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Letter to Court August 11, ’21 (response to orders)
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Response from Court August 12, ’21
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Letter to Court August 12, ’21 (response to Letter)
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Misc. Links & Videos
KJmafia.com – Kiryas Joel Mafia
Kiryas Joel YouTube Channel
Instagram Yoel Friedman
Facebook Kiryas Joel Village
Facebook Mung Beans USA
Facebook Kiryas Joel Village
Video one from Dr. Zev Zelenko in May ’20
בס”ד
מיטוואך פרשת ויצא תשפ”ב לפ”ק
אן אפענע בריוו צו מיין ווייב
עס איז שוין מער ווי דריי (3) יאר וואס דו דינסט די היימישע “מאפיא” אלס שטעקן קעגען מיר. אויף זייער
פארלאנג, האלטסטו אן אונזער צוטיילונג ביז היינט צוטאגס זינט דו האסט מיר ארויסגערוקט פון שטוב, דו דרייעסט זיך אויך ארויס פון מיר לאזען באפרייען זיך גענצליך און אינגאנצען אפ’גט’ן.י
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דיין דינען אלס זייער שטעקן באגרעניצט דיר אויך דיין מעגליכקייט אנצוגיין מיט דיין לעבען, מיט דעם אלעם האלסטו זיך נישט אפ דערפון.י
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ביסט אויף זייער פארלאנג געגאנגען אין קארט ארויפצוצווינגען א גאַרדיען אויף מיר, און דורך דעם אלעס אוועקגענומען פון מיר.י
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ביסט אויך געגאנגען אין קארט צו מאכען קרימינאלע קלאגעס אקעגען מיר, מיר ארעסטירט עטליכע מאל, און האלטס אן ארדער אויף פראטעקשאן אקעגען מיר.י
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עס שטעלט זיך אפאר הארבע פראגעס: ביסטו היינט צוטאגס, און די יעצטיגע מצב, א מער צופריעדענער מענטש ווי אין די יארען ווען מיר האבען געוואוינט אינאיינם?י
איז דא איינער וואס העלפט דיר ארויס אין שטוב און מיט די קינדער אזוי ווי איך פלעג דיר העלפן?י
איז דא איינער וואס אינטרעסירט זיך בכלל אויף דיר און אויף דיינע אמת’ע אינטערעסען?י
ווי לאנג נאך וועסטו נאכגיין אין אנהאלטען די וואס ניצען דיר פאר א שטעקן און זיי באטראכטען ווי כלומר’שטע ערליכע אידען, כאילו זיי זענען דיינע גוטע פריינד וואס מיינען כאילו דיין טובה?י
ווי לאנג נאך וועסטו האלטען אז דיין שווער און שוויגער זענען כלומר’שט ערליכער און בעסערע פריינד פאר דיר ווי דיינע אייגענע אמת’ע ערליכע עלטערן?י
אפשר איז שוין צייט אז דו זאלסט קומען צום שכל און אויסהערן וואס דיינע געטרייע ערליכע עלטערן האבן דיר צו זאגן?י
יואל פריעדמאן
ב”ר חיים שלמה ני”ו
חתן ר’ מענדל טייטלבוים ני”ו
מלמד ויואל משה – “פריעדמאן’ס ריעל פוד”י
בס”ד
לכבוד מָרַת גאדינגער אֵשֶׁת יצחק אלעזר מאסקאוויטש
מָרַת בלום אֵשֶׁת מנחם ביקסענשפאן
מיר ווילן זיך באַדאַנקן פאר אַלעם וואס איר טוט.י
אַ הארציגע יישר כח
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