La Paz, Bolivia – A U.S. congressman has met with senior Bolivian officials to plead for the release of a New York man who he says has been wrongly jailed without charge for a year in a mockery of justice.
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Rep. Chris Smith says Bolivia’s interior and justice ministers promised him they would personally look into the case of Jacob Ostreicher.
The New Jersey Republican called Ostreicher’s jailing “an egregious violation of human rights.” He met with the American earlier this week and attended a court hearing.
Ostreicher made an investment in rice farming and says he was swindled by an associate who turned out to have been involved with a drug trafficker.
Prosecutors jailed Ostreicher in June 2011 on suspicion of money laundering but have so far presented no evidence to back the accusation.
Name for your tefilos:
Yaakov Yehuda ben Shaindel
He should have lots of hatzlocho. Enough already. We want to see Yanki home.
What a kiddish hashem it is that when fellow jews get together and daven and collect thousands of signatures by devoted friends and volunteers and all politicians got involved that we can accomplish to see great results…
‘Yeshuas Hashem k’heref ayin’ and maybe now he’ll get released.
It’s about time!
Yankel inadvertently provided an important public service.
He (involuntarily) revealed to the world that investing in Bolivia might not be such a good idea…
These Bolivian Communists are like the kind of Mexican banditos you used to see in Western films. You just got to shoot em’ between the eyes cause nothin’ else works. Now if I were President and this happened to an American I would send a b 52 bomber over their house of government and tell them that it was only a firecracker. Then I would kill their President.