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Bard
-----Original Message-----
From: John Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 11:17 AM To: basham Cc: Nida; Linda; Lil' Joe; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Carol M. Miller; BJ Subject: Fw: Drug-dealing rebbi gets OFF ----- Original Message -----
From: Tripp
Henderssen
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 10:07 AM
Subject: Drug-dealing rebbi gets OFF September 8, 1999
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A rabbi charged with smuggling drugs into a federal prison where he was chaplain to Jewish inmates pleaded guilty Tuesday to a lesser charge that could put him behind bars for less than a year. Eli Gottesman, 74, could have been gotten up to 20
years and a $250,000
fine. Instead, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud
the government by
bringing into the prison items such as Stars of David, clothing, watches and food. Sentencing was set for Jan. 5. Gottesman was accused of trying to smuggle a
shampoo bottle filled
with cocaine and marijuana encased in balloons into the prison at Ray Brook, in the Adirondack Mountains. In a rapid-fire but rambling 20-minute explanation
in court, Gottesman
said the bottle was sent to him and he knew nothing about drugs inside it. ``God's ways are very mysterious,'' he told
reporters, peppering his
statement with references to Moses. ``Why did this happen? I don't know why this happened. Things have happened to greater people than me.'' Gottesman provided religious services to Jewish
inmates, and also
worked as a chaplain at five state prisons in New York. "From the Chronicles of . . . . . .The Holy Grail" |
