Goal of the Alleged Scheme Was to Obtain a Religious Divorce for the Victim's Wife
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Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York
Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and
William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department
(“NYPD”), announced the filing of a federal criminal complaint charging
SHIMEN LIEBOWITZ and AHARON GOLDBERG with conspiring to kidnap and
murder an individual in order to obtain a religious divorce for that
individual’s wife. LIEBOWITZ and GOLDBERG were arrested yesterday in
Central Valley, New York, while meeting to plan the kidnapping and
murder. They will be presented later today before Magistrate Judge
Debra Freeman in federal court in Manhattan.https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-arrest-rabbi-and-member-satmar-community-conspiring