A local Rabbi, accused of impersonating a cop by a Scarsdale man, is out of a psychiatric hospital and making court appearances. Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski's attorney says his client has bipolar disorder. Because of his illness, the Rabbi is said to have been receiving "intensive appropriate treatment and medication for bipolar disorder and has been hospitalized for much of the past several weeks.”
Borodowski has been charged in connection with two incidents where he allegedly impersonated a police officer. In the latest alleged cop impersonating incident, a 26-year-old Scarsdale man said Borodowski flashed a badge and told him to pull over when the two were driving on I-87 near the Yonkers-Bronx border. The Scarsdale man's passenger recorded the incident on video and turned it over to police.
Borodowski, who is a Rabbi at Congregation Sulam Yaakov in Larchmont, has been accused of doing the same thing in the past. In June, a woman said Borodowski got mad at her for driving the posted speed limit in a school zone in Mamaroneck. She says the Rabbi yelled at her out his window and flashed a fake police badge. The woman called police who later arrested Borodowski.
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