COURIER L 10 IFE, JANUARY 15-21, 2021
Feds arrest son
of BK judge at
Midwood home
Aaron Motofsky, the son of a Brooklyn judge, was seen
storming the US Capitol on Jan. 6. Twitter
BY JESSICA PARKS
Federal authorities
arrested Aaron Mostofsky,
the son of a Brooklyn
Supreme Court judge,
who was seen storming
the US Capitol on Jan. 6
covered in fur.
FBI offi cers removed
Mostofsky from his
Midwood apartment on
the morning of Jan. 12,
nearly a week after he attended
the riot in Washington
DC that left one
police offi cer and four
others dead.
The judge’s son is being
charged in Washington,
according to the
FBI’s Public Affairs Offi
ce in Manhattan.
His father is Shlomo
Mostofsky, a Kings
County Supreme Court
judge who was elected to
the post in January 2020
and backed by the Kings
County Democratic
Party. Previously, he
served as the president
of the National Council
of Young Israel.
Mostofsky’s brother,
Nachman Mostofsky,
serves as the executive
director of a pro-Israeli
advocacy group, Chovevei
Zion, and claims
he is an executive committee
member of the
New York Conservative
Party, despite members
of the party denying
his affi liation to Brooklyn
Paper. He was previously
in Brooklyn Paper
for calling on the city to
introduce heightened
safety measures at a Marine
Park intersection
where a young boy was
severely injured in 2017.
Mostofsky will make
a virtual initial appearance
before the Brooklyn
Federal Court at 2 pm on
Tuesday afternoon, according
to federal prosecutors.
Media outlets reported
Mostofsky was
arrested for multiple
charges, including theft
of government property
— which Mostofsky
could be seen in photos
at the scene with both
a bulletproof vest and
shield.
The New York Post
interviewed Mostofsky
on camera while inside
the U.S Capitol last week,
where he told reporters
he felt cheated by the
election results and that
President Donald Trump
was shorted nearly 10
million votes.
“I don’t think 75 million
people voted for
Trump — I think it was
close to 85 million,” he
said. “I think certain
states that have been red
for a long time turned
blue and were stolen,
like New York.”
Mostofsky faces
maximum of 10 years
in prison if convicted of
the top charge, theft of
government property,
according to federal authorities.
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