text: Orthodox Rabbis Charged in Jewish Divorce Shakedown Plot | Sojourners
  According to the FBI, most of those being charged were arrested Wednesday night, after a meeting at an undisclosed warehouse in Middlesex County, as the group gathered to launch the kidnapping plan.
  According to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday, the four are accused of charging families thousands of dollars to get recalcitrant husbands to agree to divorces, frequently by violent means.
  In one recorded meeting, Epstein spoke about kidnapping, beating, and torturing husbands to in order to force a divorce, according to the complaint.
  Last month, several of those charged drove to the warehouse in Middlesex County to determine if it was suitable for the kidnapping. In a graphic conversation, Epstein talked about the use of cattle prods, handcuffs, and other measures the hired enforcers might use on the reluctant husband.
  The arrests were accompanied by a series of searches executed by the FBI in Lakewood, Monsey, Brooklyn, and elsewhere, including Yeshiva Shaarei Torah in the Monsey section of Ramapo, N.Y.