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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

By Carlos Valdez and Frank Bajak

December 11, 2012
8:50 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)

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

By Carlos Valdez and Frank Bajak