2013 New York divorce torture plot

The 2013 New York divorce torture plot was a sting operation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation against a gang that had been torturing Jewish men into granting their wives religious divorces. It culminated in the arrest of a group of men from New York under the direction of Mendel Epstein who were involved in the planned kidnapping and torture of a fictitious Jewish husband in Middlesex County, New Jersey, with the purpose of obtaining from him a get. Epstein and his men were found guilty of kidnapping in 2015, and were sentenced to long prison terms.

2013 New York divorce torture plot

The 2013 New York divorce torture plot was a sting operation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation against a gang that had been torturing Jewish men into granting their wives religious divorces. It culminated in the arrest of a group of men from New York under the direction of Mendel Epstein who were involved in the planned kidnapping and torture of a fictitious Jewish husband in Middlesex County, New Jersey, with the purpose of obtaining from him a get. Epstein and his men were found guilty of kidnapping in 2015, and were sentenced to long prison terms.