MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Globe
By David Abel GLOBE STAFF JUNE 02, 2015
DEDHAM — Barry Starr, the conservative rabbi who stepped down last year from Temple Israel in Sharon, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he borrowed and stole nearly $500,000 from his synagogue and its congregants to buy the silence of a man charged with blackmailing him.
Starr, who appeared in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, is accused of paying off Nicholas Zemeitus of Quincy with cash, checks, and banking information as part of a multi-year shakedown.
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