The Orthodox rabbi from Monsey, NY, who admitted a role in planning to extract religious divorces from reluctant husbands by kidnapping and torture, was sentenced today to three years plus two months in prison.

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According to the office of New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, Rabbi Martin Wolmark, 57, is also ordered to serve supervised release for two years and pay a $50,000 fine.

Wolmark previously pleaded guilty to a count of conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce to commit extortion.

Ariel Potash of Monsey, along with Brooklynites Avrohom Goldstein, Moshe Goldstein, Sholom Shuchat, David Hellman and Simcha Bulmash, have also pleaded guilty to the identical charge and have been sentenced. Lakewood Rabbi Mendel Epstein, 70. is scheduled for sentencing Tuesday, December 15.

Authorities said that on August 7 and 14, 2013, Wolmark engaged in conversation with a woman and her brother regarding ways to obtain a get, a divorce document which Jewish law requires a man to present to a wife. The pair were undercover FBI agents.

Wolmark convened a rabbinical court in Suffern, NY the following October, to determine whether Jewish law would allow coercion under the circumstances, authorities said, openly discussing kidnapping and assault.

Jay Goldstein, Moshe Goldstein, Avrohom Goldstein, Bulmash, Stimler, Hellman, Shuchat and Potash traveled from New York to an Edison warehouse on October 9, ostensibly to carry it out, authorities said.

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