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Friday, October 12, 2012

Rabbi Menachem Youlus sentenced to four years in prison in $1 million scam


Rabbi Menachem Youlus was sentenced to four years in jail on Thursday.

A rabbi who billed himself as the “Jewish Indiana Jones” was off on a new adventure Thursday — prison.

Menachem Youlus was sentenced to more than four years for scamming a billionaire investor and others out of $1 million with bogus tales of rescuing Holocaust-era Torahs.

Youlus, 51, carried out the scam through a fake charity, the Save a Torah Foundation.

The victims included investor David Rubenstein, who purchased Torahs Youlus claimed to have found on the grounds of the Auschwitz concentration camp and donated them to the Central Synagogue in Manhattan.

“I know I have sinned before God,” said Youlus at his sentencing in Manhattan Federal Court. He had pleaded guilty in February to fraud charges.


By Robert Gearty / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

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