Two more Brooklyn men are sentenced to prison in a federal case against a group that used violence and threats to pressure husbands into granting Jewish divorces to estranged wives.
One day after Moshe Goldstein, 32, was sentenced to four years in prison in a New Jersey federal court, David Hellman, 33, and Simcha Bulmash, 32, are sentenced to 44 months and 48 months respectively, US Attorney Paul J. Fishman announces Tuesday in a statement.
All three defendants, who were arrested in 2013 in an FBI sting operation, pleaded guilty to various charges.
According to the statement, which cited court records, Hellman, Bulmash and a group of co-conspirators traveled in October 2013 from New York to a warehouse in Edison, New Jersey, with the intent of forcing a Jewish husband to give his wife a “get,” or a Jewish religious divorce.
— JTA
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