Posted Thursday,July 8,1999 Alphabetical site index(text) London,August 16,1996 Jewish pair jailed for getting into the swastika business A MIAMI Jewish father and son were sent to prison this week for having vandals daub swastikas and damage buses at a Jewish school in order to profit from the clean-up.
Car body shop owner Al Rubin ,47,turned to his wife and cried when sentenced on Monday to three years in prison and 500 hours of graffiti cleaning for theft. “Can you believe this?” he said. “Three years. Three years.” His son, Steven ,29,was sentenced to eight months in prison and 50 hours of graffiti removal.
Both had turned down a plea offered that would have spared them jail. “While we as a country and a community struggle against religious and racial hatred and bigotry…Al Rubin and Steven Rubin opened old wounds,” Judge Leslie Rothenberg said. As the school’s transport director, Steven Rubin gave the repair work after the samage had been done to his father’s Priority Car Care,which has the slogan “Where our customers and our honesty are number-one priority.”
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