'Jewish Indiana Jones' Faces Fraud Charges

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Just another internal Jew'$cam... mentioned in Forbes of all places... maybe to drum up "sympathy" for the J'victims...  :wtf:  

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'Jewish Indiana Jones' Faces Fraud Charges  

William P. Barrett William P. Barrett Forbes Staff   (<--- Will probably get the "boot" at some critical point IMHO... --CSR )


A Maryland rabbi who called himself the "Jewish Indiana Jones"–telling derring-do tales of rescuing Torahs hidden during the Holocaust–was charged today with criminal fraud. The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York said Menachem Youlus made it all up, swindling a charity he co-founded and its donors.

In a press release and a 21-page complaint that reeks–literally–of chutzpah    , federal authorities said that Youlus    , 50, of Wheaton, Md., "fabricated detailed accounts of having found Torahs lost or hidden during the Holocaust in Europe, including in Auschwitz and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and in other places around the world." The false accounts were used, the documents say, to solicit contributions to Save a Torah, a tax-exempt nonprofit he helped set up in 2004. Among other alleged misdeed, Youlus embezzled money or submitted inflated invoices for Torahs he often obtained not by death-defying actions but by buying them from dealers.

"His alleged exploits were no more real than those of the movie character he claimed to resemble," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. Youlus, he said, exploited "an excruciating chapter in Jewish and international history to perpetrate a brazen fraud that played on the heartstrings of the people for whom the painful memories of that period will never die." Torahs are Hebrew-language Bibles written on parchment scrolls.

Youlus surrendered to authorities in New York this morning. The charges brought against him–mail and fire fraud–were in the form of a complaint rather than an indictment voted by a grand jury. The use of a complaint is often an indication that a plea bargain is in the works. But the Associated Press quoted a lawyer for Youlus as denying the charges.

Because the case alleges fraud using a charity that had been granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Services, there a possibility that donors might face the prospect that their tax-deductible contributions will be disallowed. The criminal case complaint said $1.2 million was raised over the years.

Certainly, the complaint, technically, a sworn statement from U.S. Postal Inspector Greg Ghiozzi, is a good read. Among the allegations:

–Youlus said that in 2002 he found a Torah that had been hidden at Bergen Belsen, a notorious World War II German concentration camp, after he fell through the floorboard of a barracks. The complaint says the original barracks were demolished after the war and replaced, and that Youlus did not leave the country then.

–He falsely claimed that he found a buried Torah in 2004 at Auschwitz using a metal detector.  

(Typical Jew IMHO....--CSR)

–Youlus claimed to have purchased a 400-year-old Torah found by members of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division in an abandoned building Mosul, Iraq. in early 2007. In reality, the 82nd Airborne was nowhere in that area at that time.

–In one cited example Youlus bought a Torah from an unnamed dealer for $5,200 and billed Save a Torah for $17,847.

–Youlus embezzled money from the charity, often by by submitting inflated invoices for services rendered from Jewish Bookstore, a business he owned. It does seem that the charity, which is depicted as a victim, was not particularly careful about obtaining proper verifications.

The latest available tax filing for Save a Torah, for the year ending Dec. 31, 2009, listed revenue of just $31,000 and expenses of $150,000.

Like that big stone chasing Indiana Jones in the movie, a precursor of bad things to come came in January 2010 when a lengthy Washington Post article cast serious doubt on much of what Youlus had claimed over the years. One donor identified was billionaire investor David Rubenstein.     That prompted an investigation by Maryland charitable regulators. In July 2010 Save a Torah agreed to stop telling such dramatic rescue stories unless there was documentation.

Perhaps surprisingly, Save a Torah still has a functioning website. The opening page consists of a statement about the July 2010 settlement. But a link quickly takes one to the the regular home page, with the plea, "DONATE NOW!"
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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

David Rubenstein


David Rubenstein is the co-founder of The Carlyle Group,  :x  a global private equity firm. In the 2011 Forbes ranking of the wealthiest Americans, Rubenstein was ranked 148th with a net worth of $2.6 billion.[1]  

Early Scams and career

Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, and graduated from the college-preparatory high school, Baltimore City College and then from Duke University magna cum laude in 1970. He earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973. From 1973-75, Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Prior to starting Carlyle in 1987, with William E. Conway, Jr. and Daniel A. D'Aniello, Rubenstein was a domestic policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter and worked in private practice in Washington, D.C.

He lives in Bethesda, Maryland and is married to Alice Rogoff Rubenstein, founder of the Alaska House New York and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation.

Personal life

Rubenstein is among the group of American billionaires who have pledged to donate more than half of their wealth to philanthropic causes or charities as part of The Giving Pledge. He has made large gifts to Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Chicago Law School. He is a trustee of Duke, where Rubenstein Hall is named for his philanthropic gift to the school.[2] In 2011, he also donated $13.6 million to the Duke University Libraries in support of renovating the university's special collections library. [3]

He was elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago on May 31, 2007.[4]

On December 18, 2007, David Rubenstein purchased the last privately owned copy of the Magna Carta at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $21.3 million.[5] He has lent it to the National Archives in Washington D.C.[6] In 2011, Rubenstein gave $13.5 million to to the National Archives for a new gallery and visitor's center.[7]

Rubenstein was elected as the next Chairman of the Board of the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, starting in May 2010. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, and chairman of its fundraising drive. A new atrium was named for him.[8]

Rubenstein has explictly stated that he was once offered to meet Mark Zuckerberg before he dropped out of Harvard but decided against it. This is his single greatest investment regret.[9]

Quotes

    "When history is written and people talk about the great protests, I don't think that this will be in that category."[10] --Comparing what in his view were the great civil disobedience efforts of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King to the protests by the Working Families Party concerning the tax treatment of private equity firms.

    "I analogize [private equity] to sex...You realize there were certain things you shouldn't do, but the urge is there and you can't resist."[11] --speaking at Harvard Business School about the buyout bubble.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rubenstein


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This scamming Jew bought the Magna-Carta....  pretty typical Scam Jew Behavior IMHO....            

December 19, 2007
Magna Carta bought for $21m by US tycoon
James Bone in New York

The only copy of Magna Carta in private hands sold for $21.32 million (£10.6 million) this morning in the first auction of the "birth certificate of freedom".

The 1297 example, described as the most important document to come up for sale, was acquired by David Rubenstein, the founder of the Carlyle Group, at Sotheby's in New York. He has paid $8,528 a word.

Sotheby's had put a pre-sale estimate on the document of $20-$30 million.

The 14in-by-16in (35.6cm-by40.6cm) sheet of animal-skin vellum is one of only 17 originals of the founding "Great Charter" of English liberties first signed by King John at Runnymede — near present-day Staines, Surrey — in 1215.


The document established the principle of habeas corpus, which protects people against unlawful imprisonment by ensuring such rights as trial by jury and freedom from unlawful arrest.

Clause 39 proclaims: "No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined, nor will we go or send against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."

Four of the surviving 17 copies date from the reign of John, eight from that of Henry III and five from that of Edward I. The Sotheby's example bears the wax seal of King Edward I hanging from a ribbon at the bottom of the parchment — one of only five that still carry the royal seal.

1297 was the year that Magna Carta was formally entered into the statute rolls as the law of England. It came into being as a result of a dispute between King John and the English barons and went some way towards limiting the authority of the king.

The only other original outside Britain was a gift by the country to "The People of Australia". It is on display at the Parliament in Canberra.

Mr Rubenstein, the founder of the Carlyle private equity group     and a former deputy domestic policy adviser to President Carter, said that he would put the document back on public view at the National Archives in Washington, where it had been on loan.

"I thought it was very important that the Magna Carta stay in the United States, and I was concerned the only copy in the United States might escape the United States as a result of this auction," he said.

"I am a person who has served in government myself. I worked in the White House as a young man. At that time I recognised the importance of these kind of documents and the importance of freedom."    (F'N J-Tribe Scam Artist....--CSR)

He admitted that he could not actually read it because he had avoided learning Latin at school — a decision he now regrets.

The 2,500-word document, written in medieval Latin, was put up for sale by the Texan software billionaire and two-time independent presidential candidate Ross Perot.

Mr Perot acquired it for $1.5 million in 1984 from relatives of James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of Cardigan, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. Magna Carta had been at the Brudenells' family seat at Deene Park, Northamptonshire, for more than half a millennium.

In a catalogue essay Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia theorises that the Brudenells obtained it in Buckinghamshire after William Brudenell, the founder of the family's fortunes, married an heiress there during the reign of Edward III.

After displaying Magna Carta at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Mr Perot loaned it to the US National Archives in Washington, where it has been seen by a million people.

"It's in remarkable condition for a document that dates from 1297," Chris Rudy Smith, an archivist at the institution, said before the sale.

Proceeds of the sale will go to Mr Perot's foundation to make funds available for medical research and care for wounded military veterans.

$8,528

Or £4,233 — the cost per word of buying the only edition of Magna Carta in private hands. A copy of J. K. Rowling's The Tales

of Beedle the Bard was sold at auction for £1.9 million last week, or for £363.64 a word

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 070798.ece

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Magna Carta.... $21 Million ... ancient Talmud $40 Million....  another Sign of the Scorpion... and Global Ripoff Jew  $cam Usury...  

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Rare Jewish Bibles, Talmud May Fetch $40 Million at Sotheby's  
By Katya Kazakina - February 17, 2009 00:24 EST


Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The world's first printed edition of the Talmud -- nine 16th-century volumes that gather centuries of rabbinic debate on Jewish law -- is now on view at Sotheby's in New York.

The so-called Bomberg Talmud -- named after its Christian publisher, Daniel Bomberg -- was printed in Hebrew and Aramaic in Venice between 1519 and 1523. It's one of the treasures among some 13,000 books in the Valmadonna Trust Library, which Sotheby's says may fetch at least $40 million. The auction house is selling the collection privately.

"The sheer depth and breadth and condition of this library are unparalleled," Arthur Kiron, curator of Judaica collections at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a telephone interview. "There's nothing else like it in private hands."

The U.S. Library of Congress is among those institutions that have expressed interest in housing the library -- if a wealthy donor or consortium can be found to make the purchase, according to David Redden, Sotheby's vice chairman.

"We've been interested in this collection for a considerable time," said Dr. James Billington, U.S. Librarian of Congress, in a telephone interview. "It would find a great home here."

However, Billington added, "We don't remotely have those resources."

Most of the collection was assembled by the London-based, industrial diamond merchant Jack Lunzer in the decades since World War II.

Lunzer, 84, acts as the custodian of the trust, which is controlled by the family of his late wife. Its trustees include the couple's five children, Lunzer said.

'Major Resource'

"The trust is very strict on what it does," Lunzer said. "Trustees would only release the library to an institution that can maintain it."

Lunzer said the trust had not considered donating the collection. "It's a major resource. It could never be put together again," he said.

The Sotheby's exhibition displays some 11,000 items in the library. On a recent morning, scores of uniformed school girls and religious Jews stared at the nine massive Talmud books displayed open, under glass.

Arranged on floor-to-ceiling shelves, many more books are grouped by their place of origin -- Antwerp, Venice, Fez, Prague, and Calcutta -- and reflect the geographic reach of the Jewish Diaspora.

They include both spiritual and secular titles -- most of them in Hebrew. Countless examples of the Jewish Bible and Talmud share shelf space with Kabalistic texts, prayer books, legal texts and philosophical treatises.

History of Bookmaking

In addition to having "a profound significance for the study of Jewish history," the collection is also an important resource for understanding how the books were made over the centuries, the University of Pennsylvania's Kiron said.

The earliest manuscript in the library is a Franco-German Pentateuch, written between the 10th and 11th centuries. Another highlight is the only surviving manuscript written in England before the expulsion of the Jews in 1290.

The Bomberg Talmud had collected dust at the Westminster Abbey in London for four centuries. Lunzer, who first spotted the rare books at a 1956 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, spent 25 years chasing after them. Eventually, he managed to trade the set for a 900-year-old copy of the Abbey's original charter.

"It was a mad dream to imagine that I should acquire this work," Lunzer said.

The Valmadonna Trust Library collection is on view through Feb. 19 at Sotheby's New York headquarters. Information: http://www.sothebys.com.

(Katya Kazakina is a reporter for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own.)

To contact the reporter of this story: Katya Kazakina in New York at mhoelterhoff@bloomberg.net. BID US <Equity> CN Z <Equity> CN


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... 84B5FRM1PY

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Wow, I had no idea the Carlyle Group was Jewish—Alex Jones never told me that when I was his cult follower. I can't say I am surprised. Thanks for the info.

[-Pas-]

Exellent posts CSR, thanks!

CSR wrote:

"I am a person who has served in government myself. I worked in the White House as a young man. At that time I recognised the importance of these kind of documents and the importance of freedom."  (F'N J-Tribe Scam Artist....--CSR)

:lol:  :lol:

It would be great to hear another radio show from you again, man.It's been been a while, hasn't it?

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Exellent posts CSR, thanks!

CSR wrote:

"I am a person who has served in government myself. I worked in the White House as a young man. At that time I recognised the importance of these kind of documents and the importance of freedom."  (F'N J-Tribe Scam Artist....--CSR)

:lol:  :lol:

It would be great to hear another radio show from you again, man.It's been been a while, hasn't it?

Thanks -Pas-, yeah we'll have to get a show together sometime. I've been off Skype awhile.