Posted on 03/01/2015 7:36:00 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
The trial of Mendel Epstein, a New Jersey Rabbi and alleged ringleader of a kidnapping scheme designed to force husbands into granting their wives religious divorces, entered its second day in court in Trenton today.
Epstein, 69, was arrested in October 2013 for allegedly charging undercover FBI agents $60,000 to kidnap a man and coerce him into granting his wife a Judaic divorce decree.
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Well I hope I see some royalties. Wait. Did I yell copyright?
I’ll bet you anything some of these awful husbands are holding out for money. That if the wife’s family can pay him off to the tune of $100,000 or more then he will give the get to release the wife he mistreated.
I will bet that many wives have gotten these marraige releases after more modest payoffs. IOW it will cost her (and her father and extended family) money to get rid of the no good louse. But maybe these are bargain prices when you see how much a lawyer can earn from a divorce in the USA beyond the Hassidic communities.. ....
EITHER way you gotta pay to get out!
Silly Rabbi; tricks are for kids.
Simpler solution: get a regular civil divorce, and after the US family court system rapes the husband, inform him that she will agree to a reduced judgement if he gives her a religious divorce too.
Nobody pays $50K and up for a simple "talking to" (except at the highest corporate levels).
The rabbi and his crew are thugs, and I would have been happy if their victim was carrying and blew the whole crew away.
Hassidic, but I don’t believe it. Soprano redux.
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