Criminal
Sep. 9, 2011
Rabbi says testimony risks 'eternal damnation'
A federal judge is weighing whether to incarcerate an ultra orthodox Hasidic rabbi who has refused to testify to a grand jury investigating a criminal tax conspiracy within his flock.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge is weighing whether to incarcerate an ultra-orthodox Hasidic rabbi who has refused to testify to a grand jury investigating a criminal tax conspiracy within his flock.
Rabbi Moshe Zigelman pleaded guilty to a tax conspiracy in 2009 and served two years in prison. Now prosecutors want his cooperation as they probe whether to indict other members of his religious community...
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