NEW YORK
The Jewish Daily Forward
By Josh Nathan-Kazis
Published November 13, 2014.
One of the men arrested in a $20 million Satmar family mortgage fraud conspiracy is the same man who was convicted of trying to intimidate a witness against notorious Hasidic sex abuser Nechemya Weberman, the Forward has learned.
Abraham Rubin is fresh out of prison after serving three months for trying to bribe into not testifying against Weberman, an unlicensed counselor who was convicted in 2012 of repeatedly abusing a teenage girl in his care.
Rubin was arrested November 13 along with 14 of his family members and associates in a sprawling mortgage and public fraud conspiracy. He now faces up to 35 years in prison.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office confirmed to the Forward that Abraham Rubin had been cited for a $500,000 bribery attempt in the past. The man he tried to pay off, Boorey Deutsch, the victim’s husband, confirmed to the Forward that the man who tried to bribe him was the same Abraham Rubin as was arrested in the fraud scheme.
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