The Orthodox rabbi from Monsey, NY, who admitted a role in planning to extract religious divorces from reluctant husbands by kidnapping and torture, was sentenced today to three years plus two months in prison.
One of 10 defendants charged with a role in a scheme to strongarm a religious divorce out of a reluctant Jewish husband is sentenced to 48 months in prison.
A Brooklyn man collared in Stafford for trying to buy electronics with fake credit cards is linked to similar incidents in Brick Township, Howell and Manalapan, according to police.
The New Yorker who led New Jersey State Troopers on a 100-mile-per-hour chase through two shore counties on the Garden State Parkway before crashing in April admitted that he was strung out on LSD at the time, and faces a September sentencing.
Lakewood laywer Fred Todd, the third codefendant to admit scamming investors who thought they were getting inside deals on Facebook stock and Florida real estate, is given 46 months in prison.
Eliyahu Weinstein, the onetime Lakewood investment whiz now convicted of running a hundred-million-dollar Ponzi scheme, was arraigned today in connection with alleged scams involving Facebook stock and Florida condos.