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'Jewish Indiana Jones,' Headed To Prison For Torah Fraud
Topic Started: October 14, 2012, 6:41 am (306 Views)
M. Hawbaker
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NEW YORK -- A Jewish charity co-founder who billed himself as a "Jewish Indiana Jones" bent on rescuing vintage Torahs across the globe was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Thursday for conning donors out of about $1 million. Menachem Youlus told a judge in federal court in Manhattan that he was ashamed of his scam, but still hoped for leniency.

Youlus - a 50-year-old father of nine children and owner of a book store in Wheaton, Md. - had told donors he traveled the world to recover Torahs lost or hidden during the Holocaust, including at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.

But prosecutors said Youlus rarely went abroad during the years he had claimed to go Torah hunting. They accused him of instead distributing Torahs he bought from U.S. dealers to synagogues and congregations nationwide, sometimes at inflated rates. Authorities also alleged Youlus put some of the donations into his personal accounts, spending the funds on private school tuition for his children and on personal expenses, including meals and health care.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/jewish-indiana-jones-torah-fraud_n_1959916.html?utm_hp_ref=religion
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