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A Manhattan judge yesterday told an alleged vintage-wine fraudster that she can’t read his filings if they’re written in German.

Hardy Rodenstock, who lives in Germany, “has apparently taken the position that the Hague Convention . . . requires that he be provided with German translations, at the court’s or plaintiff’s request,” according to federal Magistrate Debra Freeman.

Freeman said Rodenstock began his Deutschland dodge only after she scheduled dates for discovery in the suit against him, “despite that fact that, prior to the court’s August 2009 order, he had consistently addressed the court in English, demonstrating a reasonable command of the English language.”

Billionaire William Koch claims Rodenstock charged him more than $300,000 for a dozen bottles of bogus rare wine, including three purportedly once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

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