Rabbi Kestenberg, of the Warsaw suburb of Wave, has been arrested and charged with complicity in the Baskin white slave trafficking affair, which created a furore in Poland, America, and other countries in the summer of 1929.
The police authorities in the United States, where Baskin was put on trial, have provided the Polish authorities with documents, it is explained, which show that Rabbi Kestenberg received 50 dollars for each fictitious marriage ceremony which he performed, enabling Baskin to ensnare his victims and smuggle them into the United States as his supposed wives.
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