NYC brothers pleads guilty in NJ, admit plotting to arrange religious divorces through torture
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Two Brooklyn brothers have admitted traveling to New Jersey as part of a plan to coerce a Jewish man to give his wife a religious divorce through threats of violence.
Thirty-four-year-old Avrohom Goldstein and his 31-year-old brother, Moshe, pleaded guilty this week to traveling in interstate commerce to commit extortion. They also said they and others restrained, assaulted and injured a man in Brooklyn in an attempt to extort a divorce in 2011.
The brothers each face up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 fines when they're sentenced in June.
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Another defendant pleaded guilty last week.
The men were arrested in October 2013 in an undercover sting in which an FBI agent contacted two rabbis seeking a divorce, known as a "get." The rabbis are awaiting trial.