Rabbi Pinto in plea deal with Israel prosecutor
Richard L. Cassin
September 17, 2014
A celebrity rabbi will plead guilty to bribing a senior police official and now faces up to a year in prison, Israel’s Justice Ministry said Wednesday.
An indictment by the state prosecutor alleged that Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto offered $200,000 to Efraim Bracha, the former head of the investigations department in the Israeli police, in exchange for information about an investigation involving the rabbi and one of his organizations.… Continue Reading