| Founder | Mendel Epstein |
|---|---|
| Years active | Mid-1980s to 2013 |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Leader(s) | Martin Wolmark |
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The New York divorce coercion gang was a Haredi Jewish group who kidnapped, and in some cases tortured, Jewish men in the New York metropolitan area to force them to grant their wives religious divorces (gittin). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) broke up the group after conducting a sting operation against the gang in October 2013. The sting resulted in the prosecution of four men, three of whom were convicted in late 2015.[1]