Financier's family allowed rabbi to clean apartment before police could see if ...

Family of 'murdered' financier allowed rabbi to clean up her apartment before police could look for evidence showing husband Rod Covlin killed her, court told Backgammon pro Rod Covlin allegedly murdered his estranged wife Shele Danishefsky in New York on New Year's Eve in 2009 He is accused of strangling Shele, 47, and staging the scene to look as though she slipped in the tub, struck her head and drowned in the bathwater Rabbi Meyer Weill said he convinced Shele's family not to initially have an autopsy as it went against their orthodox Jewish beliefs He also told jurors the family allowed him to spend half an hour unsupervised in the apartment to clean up her blood   Prosecutors at Manhattan Supreme Court claim Covlin, now 45, murdered Shele to get hold of her $5.4 million fortune 

By William J. Gorta For Dailymail.com

Published: 20:52 GMT, 19 February 2019 | Updated: 20:52 GMT, 19 February 2019

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UBS executive Shele Danishefsky (pictured) was in the midst of divorcing her much younger husband Rod Covlin when she was killed on New Year's Eve in 2009

UBS executive Shele Danishefsky (pictured) was in the midst of divorcing her much younger husband Rod Covlin when she was killed on New Year's Eve in 2009

The rabbi who talked the family of financier Shele Danishefsky out of authorizing an autopsy on her body revealed he was allowed to spend a half hour unsupervised in the apartment cleaning up her blood, according to testimony in the murder trial of Shele's husband Rod Covlin.

Meyer Weill, a medical supplies salesman, told the Manhattan Supreme Court jury on Tuesday he went to Shele's apartment around noon New Year's Day 2010 to remove from the apartment any blood or bloody items, which would then be buried with her according to Jewish tradition.

He said he is called rabbi because he was a founder of Misaskim, an organization that helps Jews by cleaning up blood and aiding the navigation of bureaucracy 'in tragic times.'

He testified he was alerted 'there was a Jewish woman who passed

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