TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A New York City man has 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.
New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s office says 30-year-old Simcha Bulmash of Brooklyn pleaded guilty Tuesday to traveling in interstate commerce to commit extortion.
Prosecutors say Bulmash and a group of conspirators met in an Edison warehouse Oct. 9 and discussed a plan to confine, restrain and threaten a man in an attempt to force him to grant his wife a “get” or religious divorce.
Bulmash and the others were arrested in an undercover sting in which an FBI agent contacted two rabbis seeking a divorce.
Several of those charged have pleaded guilty. The rabbis are awaiting trial.
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