Rabbi accused in kidnap-divorce plot says he worked as Mafia mediator in courtroom video
BY Reuven Blau
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 9:48 AM
Bill Denver/for New York Daily News Rabbi
Mendel Epstein is accused of participating in a group of 10 that
kidnapped, tortured and threatened Jewish men into granting their wives a
Get, which would allow them a divorce. Talmudic tough Rabbi Mendel Epstein told undercover agents that he worked as a mediator in disputes with the Mafia, according to a video played in federal court on Monday.
The gangsters, he said, would clean guns in front of him to intimidate him. “But they’re not going to shoot me because I’m the golden goose,” he said.
Epstein and three co-defendants are charged with kidnapping — and even threatening with a cattle prod — men who refused to give their wives a Jewish divorce called a get .
John Minchillo/ASSOCIATED PRESS FBI agents leave the Epstein's Brooklyn home after an investigation in October 2013. With News Wire Services
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