... if only there were such a thing, this jew would deserve a medal in the scammers hall of fame. If there is a ranking from easiest scam to the highest, stealing candy from a baby would be at the bottom. At the other end would be Bernie Madoff, who would be the undisputed world champion in the individual category, with the Holocaust™ scam getting the gold medal in team competition.

This guy should get a well deserved Silver medal for scamming the scammers. Nothing is funnier than a con-man ripping off other con-men.

A Jewish charity co-founder who claimed he crisscrossed the globe rescuing Torahs as a "Jewish Indiana Jones" surrendered Wednesday to face mail and wire fraud charges after authorities said he duped benefactors by fabricating dramatic stories about sometimes dangerous trips, including to concentration camp sites in Poland and Germany.

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 Wednesday on $100,000 bail. His attorney, Paul Rooney, said, "We deny this accusation, and anything else we have to say will be said in court."

Court papers said the 50-year-old Youlus carried out the fraud from at least 2004 through last year, pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars through the "Save a Torah" charity he co-founded in 2004 as a nonprofit organization. A criminal complaint said he passed off Torahs he bought from U.S. dealers to synagogues and congregations nationwide, sometimes at inflated rates.

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