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"‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ charged with fraud" August 25, 2011|Associated Press
NEW YORK - A Jewish charity cofounder who said he crisscrossed the globe rescuing Torahs as a “Jewish Indiana Jones’’ surrendered yesterday to face charges of mail and wire fraud after authorities said he duped benefactors by fabricating dramatic stories about sometimes dangerous trips, including to concentration camp sites in Poland and Germany.
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Menachem Youlus, who owns the Jewish Bookstore in Wheaton, Md., where he resides, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan and was released on $100,000 bail. His lawyer, Paul Rooney, said, “We deny this accusation, and anything else we have to say will be said in court.’’
Court papers said Youlus, 50, carried out the fraud from at least 2004 through last year, pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars through the “Save a Torah’’ charity he cofounded in 2004. A criminal complaint said he passed off Torahs he bought from US dealers to synagogues and congregations nationwide, sometimes at inflated rates.
It said he put nearly a third of $1.2 million collected by the group into his personal accounts. More than $1 million was forwarded by the charity to Youlus’s bookstore account, it said.
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