Sean Penn helping US man recover after ordeal in Bolivia
LIMA, Peru— It began with an attempt to salvage an ill-fated investment in Bolivian rice farms, devolved into a Third World prison nightmare and climaxed with an escape engineered with the help of actor Sean Penn.
But, so far, there has been no Hollywood ending for Jacob Ostreicher.
In the year since he was spirited out of Bolivia, the 55-year-old has struggled to rebuild a life upended by corrupt officials who tried to extort Ostreicher and had him imprisoned without charge while bleeding the rice venture dry.