Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto — a spiritual leader with well-established ties to New York’s real estate community — was arrested Thursday in Israel, and is being investigated for money laundering and attempting to bribe law enforcement, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. His wife, Debora Rivka Pinto, was also arrested, according to the report. The couple has been released, and is on house arrest. A lawyer for the Pintos called the allegations “baseless,” Haaretz reported. Pinto, [more]
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