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The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested prominent Brooklyn Satmar community activist Isaac Sofer on Thursday morning on charges that he lied in order to obtain food stamps.

Updated, 3:00 P.M.

Sofer manages government relations for the Central United Talmudical Academy, the Williamsburg yeshiva system that serves followers of the politically connected Satmar Grand Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum. Sofer was the public face of his community’s support for Bill de Blasio during the 2013 mayoral campaign.

According to a complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday, Sofer vastly understated his own income and assets in order to receive $30,000 in food stamps through the federal SNAP program.

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On Monday morning, an impatient driver jumped onto the sidewalk in front of a Williamsburg school, in order to avoid other drivers in the road ahead. Security camera video shows the black pickup truck driver hopping onto the curd and suddenly turning the sidewalk into potential mass-casualty zone. A group of children were standing on the corner of Wallabout Street and Harrison Avenue, and thankfully they weren't hit when the driver zipped past them on the sidewalk.

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Watch: reckless driver cought on camera driving on the sidewalk next to @SatmarHQ school on Harrison ave pic.twitter.com/HEjAgzo9US

— Williamsburg News (@WMSBG) February 25, 2019

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The video shows flashing lights on the dashboard, but it's unclear if the truck was an official emergency vehicle. The 90th Precinct is currently investigating a complaint for reckless endangerment, an NYPD spokesperson tells Gothamist.

This is the second time in a week that a driver has taken the sidewalk—which, again, is definitely not a road—and narrowly missed hitting children. Last week, a different driver climbed onto the sidewalk in Borough Park, Brooklyn, just barely missing a few kids walking into school.

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