total nonsense! Rabbis’ lives are endangered by an FBI ‘gotcha,’ like Michael Flynn’s

https://www.jns.org/opinion/rabbis-lives-are-endangered-by-an-fbi-gotcha-like-michael-flynns/

Mendel Epstein and Jay Goldstein were encouraged by the FBI’s “sting” to travel to New Jersey to use violence, only if needed, to induce a fictional husband to authorize a Jewish divorce for a female FBI agent who had been trained to simulate an “agunah.”

Rabbis Mendel Epstein and Jay Goldstein (aged 74 and 66) are now at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., under 10-year and eight-year jail terms imposed after the FBI perpetrated against them the same, if not more scandalous, injustice that it recently inflicted on Flynn. The rabbis were fooled by a meticulously orchestrated theatrical performance into believing that they would free a “chained woman” (agunah) with a trip to a New Jersey warehouse in October 2013. Because violence was a possibility (and was conjectured by Rabbi Epstein), Orthodox Jewish men recruited to assist in the performance of a religiously mandated duty were arrested and charged while they waited for the arrival of a fictional husband. According to the FBI’s script, the husband had fled to South America without giving his Orthodox Jewish wife a get, a religious divorce.

The FBI made these "saintlty" men scheme to commit violence on their fellow Jews! a new definition of chutzpa. The old one was a child who kills his parents asking for mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan! or Dershowitz' clalim that since politicians are motivated to act for the public good - they can not be held accountable for such crimes
     

Michael J. Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina who specializes in conflicts between Congress and the President, disputed another aspect of Dershowitz’s claim.
“Professor Dershowitz made what I think was a very bizarre argument about if a president believes something’s in his purse — if he believes that what he’s doing is in the nation's best interest — he apparently can do anything he wants, and that strikes me as completely wrong,” Gerhardt said.
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