Lawyers For Rabbi Eisemann File For Retrial Over New Evidence That Clears Him Of Wrondoing

Lawyers for Rabbi Osher Eisemann, the selfless founder of the School for Children with Hidden Intelligence (SCHI), have filed for a retrial after new evidence which could clear him was revealed.

Rabbi Eisemann was found guilty on charges of Financial Facilitation and Corruption of a Corporate Official over a 12-day loan that he took from a private organization that assists SCHI with funding.

The guilty verdict came after instructions to the jury were changed once the defense had already rested their case, giving them no opportunity to provide an explanation for the loan, which many argue can’t be criminal anyway because it did not use public funds.

This week, the bookkeeper who made the QuickBooks entry that the prosecution used to incriminate Rabbi Eisemann came forward to say that the alleged loan never even existed.

The bookkeeper says that as SCHI grew by leaps and bounds, the bookkeeping department became overwhelmed, prompting them to open a QuickBooks account into which they would log entries intended solely to keep the books balanced, but which did not always correctly reflect what was happening.

The entry used by prosecutors to convince the jury that Rabbi Eisemann was guilty was in fact a bookkeeping method and was not an actual loan, as the loan had never occurred, the bookkeeper said.

The prosecution will have a chance at a rebuttal before Judge Jospeh Paone, who was ordered by an appeals court that upheld the verdict to resentence Rabbi Eisemann to up to 20 years in prison, determines whether oral arguments should be heard in the case and whether a retrial should occur.

{Matzav.com}