Yonah Lempert Luecken, of Homer, Alaska, drives more than 200 miles the day before Yom Kippur to attend services at Congregation Beth Shalom in Anchorage.
The defendants, three of whom were members of the Russian intelligence services, tried to recruit people for surveillance and murder for hire in the United States and other countries, prosecutors said.
An indictment unsealed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York accused five men of being part of a network that planned to assassinate Russian dissidents.
Connexion
