Monday, October 14, 2024

Secret NYC synagogue tunnel update: the defendants rejected a plea offer

NYPost

The Hasidic Jewish students who dug a secret tunnel under a Brooklyn synagogue said they’d rather go to prison than face a ban from the historic temple — as they rebuffed plea deals from prosecutors Thursday.

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“Being banned from 770 [Eastern Parkway] for three years is worse than jail,” one of the defendants . . . told The Post in Hebrew through a translator