Let’s be clear from the start. Some judges interpret the law. Some protect the vulnerable. And then there’s Ralph Porzio — a walking contradiction who doesn’t interpret law as much as he trashes it with arrogance and cowardice.
I’m not a lawyer. I’m a Marine. A caregiver. A son. And I just watched this “Judge” dismiss a case not because the facts were wrong, but because he was too lazy and too biased to read them.
Here’s what happened.
My 88-year-old mother, a retired special-ed teacher who spent her life visiting sick children, was targeted by her “MacGyver of Malice” neighbor, Yakov Boyarsky, with a documented 20-year history of legal fraud, property weaponization, and petty sadism. His latest stunt? Placing a low-battery carbon monoxide alarm on his deck, ten feet from her window, where it chirped every 30 seconds for days. A deliberate act of mental torture against an elderly woman who can barely walk.
I brought the evidence: court records of his 15-year insurance judgement evasion. His $1 million lawsuit against a bakery over a loaf of raisin bread. Photos of “spite sheds,” poison ivy cultivated on public sidewalks, sworn statements from neighbors. I didn’t just allege a pattern of malice — I proved it. In triplicate.
Porzio’s response? A masterpiece of judicial degeneracy.
First, he asked, “When did this happen?” I said November. He cut me off: “It’s cold. Windows are closed. How did you hear it?” Then, before I could answer, he waved a hand. “Case dismissed. You can’t sue for your mother.”
Let that sink in.
On a motion to dismiss — where the judge is required by law to accept every fact in the complaint as true — Ralph Porzio decided the facts himself. He ruled on the weather. He ruled on my home’s insulation. He ruled on intent, without reviewing a single exhibit. He didn’t just ignore evidence; he actively substituted it with the defendant’s fraudulent narrative and his own fiction.
That isn’t judging. That’s fraud in a robe.
Worse, he ignored the law on standing. Yes, my mother was the primary target. But I sued for my injuries: the trauma of watching her torture, the violation of my duty as her protector and as a Marine, the loss of peace in my own home. Porzio didn’t address those claims. He didn’t even acknowledge them. He tossed the entire case because he couldn’t — or wouldn’t — distinguish between a victim and a witness.
This isn’t an isolated incompetence. It’s a pattern.
Porzio markets himself as a “tough, street-smart judge” — a former homicide prosecutor, a family court veteran, an adjunct professor. He sells the image of a no-nonsense jurist. What he delivers is the opposite: a judge so convinced of his own infallibility that due process is an inconvenience, facts are optional, and the vulnerable are collateral damage.
He didn’t dismiss my case because the law demanded it. He dismissed it because he could.
And that’s what makes him a trashcan. Not because he makes mistakes — all judges do — but because he is one. He doesn’t preside; he trashes the robe, the court and the victims. Facts, precedent, lives — he disposes of them with his arrogance, ignorance and bias, lets justice rot in the open air, and still has the gall to stand behind the bench as if he didn’t stink.
This is the dark secret of New York’s court system: it isn’t broken. It’s being emptied by people like Porzio, who treat the law as a tool for clearing dockets, not clearing wrongs.
My case is now on appeal. The record is clean, the error is obvious, and the Appellate Division will reverse him. But reversals don’t fix the damage. They don’t hold someone like Porzio accountable — they just let him continue spewing his activist garbage.
So here’s the question we should be asking: How many other cases has Ralph Porzio thrown out based on the weather? How many victims walked out of his courtroom devastated because he couldn’t be bothered to read past page one? How much evidence sits in his files, ignored, while he plays amateur meteorologist from the bench?
I’ll fight this to the highest court necessary. Not just for my mother, but for every person who’s been dismissed by a judge who thinks the law is beneath him.
Ralph Porzio isn’t just a bad judge. He’s a disgrace in a robe. And it’s time his corruption is exposed and his career is terminated.
בפרח רשעים כמו עשב
ויציצו כל פעלי און
להשמדם עדי עד
”When the wicked flourish like grass
And all evildoers blossom
It is so they can be destroyed forever”
— Tehillim (Psalms) 92:8
רצון ה’ נעשה
The Will of Hashem is Done