{"id":72021,"date":"2015-07-31T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T00:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72021"},"modified":"2023-09-10T07:53:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:53:59","slug":"moshe-the-religious-gets-32-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72021","title":{"rendered":"Moshe The Religious Gets 32 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/0f8866109f2e43609a53f97587828fd3\/alleged-leader-israeli-organized-crime-ring-gets-32-years\">LOS ANGELES (AP)<\/a> \u2014 A Los Angeles man who prosecutors say was a leader of an Israeli organized crime ring that moved drugs and money across the globe was sentenced Friday to 32 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Moshe Matsri, 49, was sentenced in federal court in Los Angeles on a slew of money laundering, drug and extortion charges. Prosecutors recommended he be sentenced to 34 years in prison, while his own attorney argued for a 12-year term.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors describe Matsri, also known as &#8220;Moshe the Religious,&#8221; as a well-known crime figure in the San Fernando Valley with significant ties to the Israel-based Abergil crime family. They say he laundered large amounts of money around the world that helped fuel the international drug trade, and in one instance, negotiated a deal involving &#8220;enough cocaine to get the entire city of Dallas high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matsri&#8217;s attorney, Dean Steward, said after Friday&#8217;s sentencing that he&#8217;ll appeal the lengthy prison term. With two years already served following his arrest, Matsri would be nearly 80 years old by the time he gets out of prison, tantamount to a life sentence, Steward told U.S. District Judge S. James Otero.<\/p>\n<p>Steward argued that his client is a loving husband and father, and a deeply religious and caring man, cooking for his entire synagogue every Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A Los Angeles man who prosecutors say was a leader of an Israeli organized crime ring that moved drugs and money across the globe was sentenced Friday to 32 years in prison. Moshe Matsri, 49, was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72021\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[941,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-israel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151626,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72021\/revisions\/151626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}