NRE JERSEY
NJ.com
By MaryAnn Spoto | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on April 20, 2015
TRENTON — Jurors deliberating in the trial of a Lakewood rabbi accused of arranging beatings to force men to grant their wives religious divorces finished their second full day of discussions without reaching a verdict on Monday.
By the end of the day, jurors sent out a note requesting the transcript of the testimony of Rabbi Aryeh Ralbog, who testified against Rabbi Mendel Epstein in a kidnapping conspiracy trial.
Ralbog, who was granted immunity from prosecution by federal prosecutors in exchange for his testimony, including his description of an investigation launched by a group of rabbis in Brooklyn into one of the alleged kidnappings.
Epstein, a prominent rabbi who specializes in divorce proceedings, was on trial along with his son, David “Ari” Epstein, and two other rabbis, Binyamin Stimler and Jay Goldstein, on conspiracy, kidnapping and attempted kidnapping charges that grew out of a federal undercover sting.
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