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Topic: Jacob Ostreicher

December 27, 2012
8:03 pm

Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox investor from Brooklyn, has been freed from prison in Bolivia but will remain under house arrest after paying $14,000 as bail. (AP/File)

Freed Haredi man: Bolivia’s Jewish community was ‘disappointing’

US Jewish businessman Jacob Ostreicher, who remains under house arrest in South America, claims local Jews are afraid of their government

December 18, 2012
10:59 pm

Haredi American released from Bolivian prison

Jacob Ostreicher had been held without charges for 18 months in alleged extortion effort by government officials

December 14, 2012
9:02 pm

US legislators have asked Bolivian President Evo Morales to intervene in a case that has resulted in corruption charges against his own officials. (Photo credit: CC BY/Sebastian Baryli via Flickr.com)

US lawmakers urge Bolivian president to release Ostreicher

Haredi businessman from Brooklyn has been held without charges for more than 18 months

December 12, 2012
5:32 pm

New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he's being held without charges. (AP)

After 28th hearing, Orthodox man jailed in Bolivia calls case a joke

At a proceeding attended by actor Sean Penn, judges refuse to free man seen as victim of extortion conspiracy

December 11, 2012
8:50 pm

With Sean Penn’s help, US Jew jailed in Bolivia may be released

A growing extortion scandal suggests a conspiracy to confine Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox agriculture investor from New York

November 27, 2012
8:27 am

Top Bolivian official allegedly got rich off jailed Jewish-American’s holdings

Jacob Ostreicher, detained for 18 months without charges, says he fears for his life now that government officials are suspected of corruption

By Paola Flores

September 10, 2012
4:48 pm

Skeleton competitor Bradley Chalupski, representing Israel, starts down the track at the men's world championships in Lake Placid, NY, February 24, 2012. (Photo credit: Ken Childs/JTA)

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By JTA Staff

June 15, 2012
8:36 am

Congressman Christopher Smith visits American Jew jailed in Bolivia

Businessman Jacob Ostreicher on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment

June 8, 2012
4:50 pm

Congress holds hearing on hasid imprisoned in Bolivia

Former FBI official says: In Jacob Ostreicher’s case ‘there is a complete absence of any concrete, tangible evidence on even a microscopic scale’

June 7, 2012
10:37 am

House committee to hold hearing on hasidic Jew held in Bolivia

US lawmakers and Ostreicher’s family believe the US State Department has not provided an adequate response

May 13, 2012
4:06 am

NY Hasid resorts to hunger strike after nearly a year in Bolivian prison

Jacob Ostreicher, a father of five from Borough Park, has been fasting since April 15, denies allegations of ties to drug trafficking and money laundering

By Ben Sales

April 8, 2012
2:55 pm

US Orthodox Jew sits 10 months in Bolivian jail, uncharged

Prosecutors have presented no evidence that the New York businessman was involved in laundering drug money. Jacob Ostreicher plans to begin a hunger strike at the end of Passover

By Frank Bajak and Paola Flores