Israel’s deputy housing minister, Meir Porush, joined two leading Chasidic rabbis in putting up $1.5 million bail for the release of a fervently Orthodox Jew wanted in the United States to face fraud charges. Chaim Berger, 73, was released from custody and put under house arrest after the bail was posted. Arrested last month at the request of American authorities seeking his extradition, Berger was indicted in 1997 along with six other residents of the predominantly Chasidic community of New Square, N.Y., for allegedly defrauding U.S. federal and state grant programs out of millions of dollars.
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