US judge says Russia acting like ‘scofflaw’ towards Chabad
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge says Russia is acting like a “scofflaw” and an “outlaw” by refusing his order to hand over a Jewish group’s historical books and documents.
Royce Lamberth is chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington. He made the comments at a court hearing Thursday.
Lamberth slapped Russia with a $50,000-a-day civil contempt sanction in January for refusing his earlier order to give the documents to Chabad Lubavitch. That’s a Hasidic movement within Orthodox Judaism headquartered in Brooklyn.