Takes advantage of people's dedication to religion for their own gain. No matter what you think about religion, I would imagine most people would never use it as a way to scam people for the betterment of their own personal financial situation. To make a mockery of something that so many billions of people hold dear is simply deplorable, especially when that something is so fundamental to some people's lives that they plan their meals, days, even lives around the need to feed that faith. I find it just ridiculous that you would resort to exploiting a person's faith for your own gain....And he didn't stop there. Not only was he accepting donations based on his claim that he finds historically and religiously important jewish material from around the world, but he even stated that he had saved torahs from concentration camps during the holocaust...what a stand up guy.
Well Menachem Youlus is being charged with a couple types of fraud for stealing "hundreds of thousands of dollars" from the charity he set up, meant to help him in his "search" for Torahs around the world. And not only was he fudging the documents to get more $ for his "finds" but many of his "discoveries" were actually good ol' Menchem just buying the artifacts from other dealers. That's right, the money donated so that he could travel around the world, saving torahs from a doomed, forgotten future could have just as easily been used to directly purchase the scrolls from dealers...out of a gallery....for much less
Well take a bow Menachem Youlus. Not only are you the asshole of the day but you are spending the next 20 years in prison.
read the story here.
http://news.yahoo.com/torah-charity-founder-accused-fraud-over-lost-scrolls-194642386.html
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