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SATMAR KIDNAPPER DEPORTED
Eight years ago I followed the case that confronted a bizarre ex-pilot turned rabbi with the divorced parents of 13-year old Shai Fima. Call it closure.
Rabbi Is Deported 5 Years After Kidnapping Conviction
A Hasidic rabbi on parole in Rockland County after serving a prison term for kidnapping a teenager under his tutelage was deported to Israel yesterday, even as his conviction was being appealed, his lawyer said. The case of the rabbi, Shlomo Helbrans, has drawn widespread attention not only for the nature of the kidnapping charge, but also because of a federal investigation into whether his parole after two years in prison was the result of improper political influence on the Pataki administration.


Rabbi Helbrans, 38, an Israeli citizen, was arrested Wednesday night by agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the police station in Spring Valley, N.Y., where he had gone expecting a regular meeting with his parole officer, said Mark Thorn, an I.N.S. spokesman. Yesterday, Rabbi Helbrans was put on a plane for Israel at 5:25 p.m., his lawyer, Ronald G. Russo, said.
(NY Times)