The District Attorney reportedly recommended the three men get 30 days in jail for their actions (“misdemeanor coercion”), but Chun said no. The conditional discharge frees the men on the condition that they don’t “get in trouble” for one year, according to the aforementioned report.
Jacob, Joseph, and Hertzka Berger reportedly enter the restaurant of Hershy Deutsch last year and tore the kosher certification off the wall, as if to intimidate Deutsch and his girlfriend at the time, Nechamya Weberman—who functioned as an important witness in the case against the Hasidic counselor Nechemya Weberman—from continuing to cooperate with authorities with respect to the Weberman case.
Abraham Rubin, a fourth man involved in the aforementioned restaurant visit, is awaiting trial on charges he seemingly tried to bribe witnesses to the event that took place in the restaurant.
Weberman was found guilty in December and is now serving a 50-year sentence, according to Vos Iz Neias?.
Deutsch and the “star witness” are now married, according to the New York Daily News.
I’m happy it’s over, even though they deserve a bigger punishment in my and the entire world’s eyes,” said Deutsch concerning the decision handed down Thursday, according to the Daily News. “The judge has his rules, and he made them pay what he thinks is fair.”
But he seemed to view the case generally as a moral victory.
“This should be a lesson to the entire community that we won’t stay quiet anymore, we will raise our voice and make sure every person involved will get the punishment they deserve,” he asserted, according to the aforementioned report.