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February 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The government said he fabricated detailed accounts of exploits 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.
During his plea, he said his lies included telling prospective buyers that he
had personally retrieved parts of one scroll from a metal box at Auschwitz. Sentencing
was set for June 21.
A criminal complaint said Youlus had distributed Torahs he bought from U.S.
dealers to synagogues and congregations nationwide, sometimes at inflated
rates.
It said he put nearly a third of $1.2 million collected by the charity into
his personal accounts, spending some of it on private school tuition for his
children and on personal expenses, including meals and health care.
The publicly stated mission of the charity was to locate and acquire Torahs
that survived the Holocaust or had been taken from Jewish communities
worldwide and repair them so they could be used in communities that need
them. But authorities said Youlus rarely traveled abroad during the years he
had claimed to go Torah hunting.
At a 2004 Torah dedication, Youlus wrote: “I guess you could call me the
Jewish Indiana Jones,” the complaint said, referencing the action-adventure
hero played by Harrison Ford in the 1981 Stephen Spielberg classic “Raiders
of the Lost Ark.”
In a statement, attorney Benjamin Brafman said he will seek leniency at a June
21 sentencing for Youlus, “a good man with the best of intentions who
ultimately strayed into fraudulent conduct that he now accepts full
responsibility for.”
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