NEW JERSEY
New York Daily News
CHRISTINA CARREGA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, July 7, 2017
A higher court upheld the convictions of three Orthodox Jewish rabbis that conspired to kidnap Orthodox Jewish husbands who refused to get divorced.
Binyamin Stimler, Mendel Epstein and Jay Goldstein were busted in 2013 by federal agents during an undercover investigation, working together with “tough guys” or “muscle men” in exchange for money to kidnap and torture husbands in order to coerce them to sign the gittin — plural for a get.
The attacks happened from 2009 to 2013 in New Jersey and New York City.
All three rabbis were convicted in 2015 after trial and filed their appeals — that were consolidated — based on numerous claims including violations of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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