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TRENTON, N.J. — An Orthodox Jewish rabbi was sentenced Tuesday to a decade in prison after admitting to a judge he got caught up in his tough-guy image while leading a ring that coerced religious divorces from recalcitrant men. Rabbi ...

Prosecutors played the video in federal court Monday, the third day of Epstein's trial on charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and attempted kidnapping.

Prosecutors played those recordings on Thursday, the second day of trial for Epstein and his three co-defendants: son David Epstein, Jay Goldstein and Binyamin Stimler.

Mendel Epstein — the Orthodox rabbi who allegedly would use beatings, cattle prods and other methods of persuasion to convince husbands to grant a "get," the ritual Jewish divorce required before believers can remarry — is set to go on trial Wednesday on attempted kidnapping charges.