The first of 10 men charged in a bizarre torture-for-hire plot aimed at
convincing recalcitrant Orthodox husbands to grant their wives religious
divorces was sentenced Monday to four years in federal prison. (Robert
Sciarrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Moshe Goldstein was the muscle.
The 32 year old Brooklyn man had been part of a group recruited to force a reluctant Orthodox husband to grant his wife a religious divorce in a bizarre plot that involved beatings, handcuffs and an electric cattle prod.
It was all an FBI sting centered on a prominent Lakewood rabbi who
specialized in divorce proceedings, in an operation that stretched from
Brooklyn to a warehouse in Middlesex County. There was no husband, no
wife and no divorce.
And on Monday, Goldstein—the first of 10 to face sentencing in the case, was hit with a four-year term in federal prison, after pleading guilty to crossing state lines to commit extortion. [...]
During his plea hearing, Moshe Goldstein admitted he and others
traveled from New York to a warehouse in Edison in October 2013, with
the intent of forcing a Jewish husband to give his wife a "get."
According to court filings, some showed up wearing Halloween masks and
was one in a Metallica T-shirt, as they waited to grab a supposed
victim. Once there, they met with an individual purported to be the
husband's brother-in-law and discussed a plan to confine, restrain and
threaten the victim. [...]
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