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November 27, 2012
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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

April 8, 2012
2:55 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)

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