NEW JERSAY
Failed Messiah
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Defense attorneys for the alleged “Prodfather,” Rabbi Mendel Epstein, and three of his associates asked a federal judge to grant a mistrial today.
The judge, US District Court Judge Freda L. Wolfson, denied the motion.
Instead, she told the jury to disregard an incorrect sentence in the indictment the jury was given last week when it began its deliberations in Epstein’s get (Jewish divorce) extortion and kidnapping trial. The jury was given a corrected indictment, as well.
According to the Asbury Park Press, the mistaken sentence reads as follows. “Defendant Mendel Epstein further stated…that Mendel Epstein’s son is one of the ‘tough guys’ who uses his karate skills on the husbands to facilitate the coerced divorces.”
But the government previously admitted Mendel Epstein did not make that comment about his son at the meeting from which the quote was taken.
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