One year in prison for the three sons of the Mishkolitz Rebbe

Yaakov, Yosef and Hertzke Berger, the three sons of the Mishkolitz Rebbe U.S. suffered on Thursday punishment of probation and low financial guarantee in respect of threats, exercising against the husband of the complainant against Nehemiah Weberman of Satmar.

The sentence on Thursday – given by the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, Danny Chun, is one of the residual effects of the Weberman Affair, which ended a few months ago, in which Nehemiah Weberman, a Satmar Hasid, 54, a resident of Brooklyn, who handled the youth close to 30 years was convicted of embarrassing offenses for which he was sent to prison for 50 years.

Berger brothers were arrested, charged and convicted, that in an attempt to intimidate the complainant, they tore the kashrus certificate in the restaurant which was owned by Hershey Deutsch, her husband. Following the incident Deutsch closed the restaurant.

The claim required charging the three with at least 30 days in jail, but the judge released them with the punishment of probation. One of the brothers, Yaakov, was also fined $ 500 for the additional clause he was convicted of.

"It's over," said Attorney Michael Sibla who represented the three. "The prosecution demanded prison sentence just because the case was covered by the media, and became the high-profile case in the U.S."

Immediately after the arrest of the Berger brothers last June, the District Attorney in Brooklyn, Charles Hynes, condemned the orthodox methods of intimidation on the streets in New York against complainants in such affairs.

Hershey Deutsch responded: "I'm glad it's over though they deserve greater punishment. There is a judge, he has rules, and he sentenced them what he thinks they should pay for what they did to me. I think it should be a lesson for the whole community, not to stay quietly anymore, and everyone involved gets the punishment he deserves."

A judgment has not yet been made against a Satmar Hasid who allegedly offered half a million dollars to the complainant for withdrawal of the complaint.

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