Posted on 05/12/2015 6:48:47 AM PDT by jonatron
(JTA) — A 30-year-old man from suburban Boston was indicted on charges of extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a leading Boston-area Conservative rabbi.
Rabbi Barry Starr resigned a year ago from Temple Israel, a Conservative synagogue in Sharon, Mass., after allegedly paying nearly half a million dollars — taken from synagogue funds and borrowed from his congregants — to hide his two-year affair with a 16-year-old male. Much of the money came from the rabbi’s discretionary fund including checks that the rabbi altered. He also borrowed thousands of dollars from an elderly congregant, a Holocaust survivor.
Nicholas Zemeitus, who claimed to be the older brother of the teen, who was 18 when the affair ended, had threatened to expose the affair unless Starr paid him. He was arrested and charged on Monday with eight counts of larceny, two counts of receiving stolen property and one count of extortion, the Boston Globe reported.
Zemeitus said he met the rabbi on Craigslist, according to the newspaper, citing court documents. He met Starr at his home after an exchange of emails. It is still unclear if Zemeitus is related to the teen, though he claimed to have copies of emails exchanged between the rabbi and the teen, as well as photographs of them together. The affair started three years ago and ended about a year ago.
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Man charged in extortion of Sharon rabbi Temple leader allegedly paid $480,000
Seems the focus is on the blackmailer, rather than the pedophile rabbi. I guess as long as it’s not a Catholic Priest, then there’s no problem.
If there is nothing to be embarrassed about, how can he be extorted?
What kind of banks do they have in Massachusetts?
**A 30-year-old man from suburban Boston was indicted on charges of extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a leading Boston-area Conservative rabbi.**
Did he have to con one of his congregants into selling his timeshare at Myrtle Beach?
A man who would steal from a Holocaust survivor, sexually abuse a young person and scam from trusting members of his congregation... He has a place in hell - or maybe as an officer in the Clinton Foundation.
Acting more like a pimp than a brother.
Why would a Conservative Movement rabbi want to hide the gay stuff? Conservative Movement has been promoting that lately. Might qualify him for a plum job at the JTSA.
Someone skipped class the day writing headlines was discussed.
Why did the guy accept checks?.....OY VEY the limp wrist is now a tight fist!...(say that with an effeminate lisp and it works!)
It always weirds me out the way journalist now describe pedophiles, hebephiles, and ephebophiles as “having a relationship” with the child they are molesting.
Exactly. Whenever it’s a public school teacher, rabbi, other religious or athletic leader, or anyone-other-than-Catholic-priest, it’s not news.
Another disgusting queer caught molesting a young boy. Three decades in the slammer is too good for this coprophile.
The obsession of every male queer on the planet—it is called raping a young boy and recruiting him to the lifestyle of the mentally and physically diseased.
It is only if it is a queer involved.
“If there is nothing to be embarrassed about, how can he be extorted?”
Uhhh - - perhaps because the Congregation expected their Rabbi to be an expert on Hebrew culture and just might be displeased to discover he was an expert on Heblew culture.
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