A Queens man accused of beating up his estranged son-in-law to force him to recite a rabbi-sanctioned divorce has been cleared, prosecutors announced after learning that the accuser made up the whole thing.
“The case was factually unsustainable based on the complainant’s lack of credibility,” Assistant DA Barry Frankenstein said Friday.
Robert Klein had claimed that his father-in-law, Brian Hirshman, 52, and some other men tied him up, blindfolded him and forced him to consent to the religious decree, called a “get.”
But Klein, 25, later admitted that he hit himself in the head and face to back up his claim, the prosecutors said.
A judge had issued an order of protection for Hirshman’s daughter and grandchild because Klein claimed they witnessed the attack.
Klein was charged on May 19 with falsifying a police report after cops learned his BlackBerry was not stolen as he’d claimed. The order of protection was vacated.