Two lawyers were among those charged Wednesday with conspiring to intimidate a witness in a widening incest-rape case involving two rabbis in Brooklyn. George Meissner and Richard Finkel previously represented Rabbi Bernard Freilich, who is accused of attempting to prevent a woman from testifying that her father repeatedly raped her when she was a child. Freilich and another rabbi, Pinchas Shor, pleaded not guilty to separate charges on Tuesday.
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