Three more New York men who were involved in a bizarre plot to violently coerce an Orthodox husband to give his wife a religious divorce were sentenced in federal court Thursday.
The three were nabbed along with seven others in
an FBI sting two years ago during a torture-for-hire operation that
crossed state lines from New York to a warehouse in Edison. http://www.nj.com/news/2013
Avrohom Goldstein, 36, was sentenced to 45 month in prison by U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson in Trenton, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said.
The Brooklyn man also admitted to a similar plot in 2011 where he and
others restrained and assaulted another recalcitrant husband and his
roommate to extort a divorce, Fishman said in a release.
Ariel Potash, 42, of Monsey, N.Y., was given a 14-month prison
sentence, while one of the other conspirators, Sholom Shuchat, of
Brooklyn, was sentenced to time served, according to the release.
All three will also serve two years of probation. [...]
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