{"id":1791023,"date":"2011-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donate.jta.org\/2011\/02\/22\/default\/rabbi-balkany-sentenced-to-four-years"},"modified":"2011-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T05:00:00","slug":"rabbi-balkany-sentenced-to-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2011\/02\/22\/ny\/rabbi-balkany-sentenced-to-four-years","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Balkany Sentenced To Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Rabbi Milton Balkany to four years in jail for trying to extort  $4 million for his school, Bais Yaakov of Borough Park, from billionaire Steven Cohen&#8217;s SAC Capital, using supposedly damaging information he obtained from an inmate at a federal prison where he served as a spiritual adviser.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My intent was 100 percent pure,&rdquo; Rabbi Balkany told The Jewish Week In a Feb., 2010 interview shortly after his arrest. &ldquo;I was trying to get someone out of jail. 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