Israel Weingarten — federal prosecution (E.D.N.Y.)
A yeshiva teacher convicted in federal court in 2009 of transporting and traveling with his minor daughter for illegal sexual activity, and sentenced to 30 years. One count was vacated on appeal; the Second Circuit affirmed the reimposed 30-year sentence in 2013.
Orthodox Jewish (Satmar Hasidic) Convicted (federal)
- Person
- Israel Weingarten
- Role
- Yeshiva teacher
- Institution
- Satmar/Hasidic community; of Monsey, New York
- Location
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- Status
- Convicted by a federal jury (2009); resentenced 2011; affirmed 2013
- Sentence
- 30 years' federal imprisonment
Case in brief
Tier 1 · Court-proven
Israel Weingarten was a yeshiva teacher from Monsey, New York. The Second Circuit’s decisions recite that he sexually abused his minor daughter over more than six years, in three countries, beginning when she was about nine or ten; the federal charges concerned three international trips in the spring and summer of 1997, when she was sixteen. On March 11, 2009, after a week-long trial at which he represented himself, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted him on all five counts: two of transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity (18 U.S.C. § 2423(a)) and three of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct (§ 2423(b)). The victim is not named in this file.
The record
Tier 1 · Court-proven
| Item | Record |
|---|---|
| Conviction | March 11, 2009 — 2 counts § 2423(a); 3 counts § 2423(b) |
| First sentence | May 8, 2009 — 30 years (Gleeson, J.) |
| Appeal | 2011 — Second Circuit vacated one § 2423(b) count (a Belgium-to-Israel trip lacking the required U.S. nexus) and ordered resentencing; the standing conviction is 2 counts § 2423(a) and 2 counts § 2423(b) |
| Resentencing | September 12, 2011 — 30 years reimposed on the four remaining counts |
| Further review | Affirmed April 16, 2013 (2d Cir. No. 11-3999); § 2255 relief denied (affirmed 2017); compassionate release denied 2020, the court recording an anticipated release in 2034 |
Status
In federal custody under the 30-year sentence, with an anticipated release in 2034 as recorded by the district court in 2020. No state conviction was located in the sources verified for this file; the case is a federal one, and it is labeled that way.
Records requested & responses
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Sources
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (April 16, 2013) — counts and statutes, the 2009 sentence, the vacated count, the 2011 resentencing, affirmance: law.justia.com
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York (March 11, 2009), conviction release, via FBI archive: archives.fbi.gov
- Journal News (September 14, 2011) — resentencing to 30 years on the four remaining counts, via BishopAccountability.org: bishop-accountability.org
Filed October 25, 2026, from the published sources below. Minor victims are never named or identified in this file.