Forced-divorce rabbi given 38 months
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.
Rabbi Martin Wolmark
Prominent Jewish Rabbi Pleads Guilty in Federal Extortion Case
A prominent Orthodox Jewish rabbi admits to conspiring to travel to New Jersey to coerce a Jewish man to give his wife a religious divorce. Rabbi Martin Wolmark of Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Monsey, NY, plead guilty Wednesday, January 14 in Trenton federal court to conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce to commit extortion along with six co-conspirators...