Forward: Federal prosecutors announced the arrest Wednesday evening of two members of the Satmar Hasidic group accused of planning to kidnap and murder a man who had refused to grant his wife a religious divorce.
Shimen Liebowitz, 25, and Aharon Goldberg, 55, planned to pay $55,000 to a private investigator to arrange the kidnapping, according to prosecutors.
Liebowitz is a member of the Satmar Hasidic community in Kiryas Joel, New York, according to court documents. Goldberg, a rabbi who lives in Israel, is also a prominent member of the Kiryas Joel community. Their intended victim, apparently an Orthodox Jew, drives a taxi, according to court papers.
