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Bible college and former Newsweek and Christian Post publishers plead guilty in $35 million fraud probe

By Alejandra Molina — February 20, 2020
(RNS) — A California-based Christian college and the former publishers of The Christian Post and Newsweek have been convicted in a scheme to fraudulently obtain $35 million from lenders, according to the Manhattan district attorney.

N.Y. man pleads guilty in scheme with rabbis to violently extort divorce

By Bill Wichert — March 7, 2014
(RNS) David Hellman admitted to traveling with seven co-conspirators from New York to a New Jersey warehouse with the intention of forcing a Jewish man to give his wife a divorce document known under Jewish law as a “get.”
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