Rabbi Mordechai Samet, who was convicted of fraudulently obtaining more than $4 million, has filed a lawsuit saying he can't pray in his cell because it contains a toilet, according to the New York Times


NEW YORK: A Hasidic rabbi serving time at a federal penitentiary is suing the Bureau of Prisons to change its policy on where inmates can pray.
In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in New York, Rabbi Mordechai Samet, who was convicted of fraudulently obtaining more than $4 million, asserts that his ability to pray according to his beliefs has been violated by the Bureau of Prisons’ insistence that he pray in his cell. The cell contains a …