Daniel Greer

Daniel Greer (born 1940) is a disbarred attorney and Orthodox rabbi and the founder of the Yeshiva of New Haven and a one time candidate for the Democratic nomination for a New York State Assembly District who in 2017 was found liable of sexually abusing and raping one of his male students while the latter was a teenager in Greer's yeshiva. In 2019 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Greer is also the father of the lead plaintiff in the case of the "Yale Five", in which Orthodox Jewish students sued Yale over the university's coed dorm policy, claiming it was discriminatory, but ultimately lost the case.

Greer, who had vocally opposed gay-rights in court, was found liable of raping one of his teenage male students "hundreds of times" over the course of a number of years. In a civil trial, in which Greer chose to plead the fifth out of fear of self-incrimination, he was found liable of the charges of sexual abuse by a federal jury. The court awarded the plaintiff $15 Million in compensatory damages, to be paid by Greer and his yeshiva. Provided by Wikipedia