{"id":16567,"date":"2010-02-01T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=16567"},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:06:55","slug":"used-car-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=16567","title":{"rendered":"Used Car Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.typepad.com\/failed_messiahcom\/2010\/02\/gold-drive-for-rubashkin-234.html\">Yisroel Pensack posts on Failed Messiah<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The original corrupt multimillion-dollar &#8220;charity&#8221; used-car fraud king was Chabad-Lubavitch &#8220;Rabbi&#8221; Bentzion Pil from San Francisco. He and his wife Mattie Plotkin even made the front page of The Wall Street Journal for their business &#8220;acumen.&#8221; Most of the &#8220;charity&#8221; money conveniently &#8220;disappeared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still functioning as a &#8220;rabbi&#8221; in San Francisco, but living much better than in the old days. Pil and his cronies from the now-defunct\/bankrupt Jewish Educational Center (JEC) of SF, supposedly &#8220;helped&#8221; SF Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Ahron Hecht and his wife, who I&#8217;m told is a Rubashkin relative, buy a big house in San Francisco. Hecht is a cousin of Rubashkin case cheerleader Shea Hecht, I believe. <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/article\/full\/12207\/s-f-rabbi-guilty-of-felony-his-lawyers-say\/<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve read that a former SF Litvisher previously with SF&#8217;s Hebrew Academy is or was connected with a Lakewood-based used-car &#8220;charity.&#8221; It seems he may have a new gig now: <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.charitygiftcertificates.org\/<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Reports About Charity Gift Cards Upset Card Providers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbucks.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F12%2F10%2Freports-about-charity-gift-cards-stir-controversy%2F#?secret=fqdwd6HUir\" data-secret=\"fqdwd6HUir\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/community.nytimes.com\/comments\/bucks.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/10\/reports-about-charity-gift-cards-stir-controversy\/\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yisroel adds: Also, the Hechts&#8217; big SF house was originally bought from a Pil\/JEC insider named Luba Troyanovsky in the name of Hecht&#8217;s &#8220;Richmond Torah Center&#8221; charity, but later that &#8220;Chabad House&#8221; amazingly showed up on the SF assessor&#8217;s computer roll as owned by the Hechts personally.     <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/article\/full\/1359\/chernobyl-kids-in-s-f-for-judaism-medical-aid\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/article\/full\/7845\/there-s-no-big-winner-in-latest-fight-for-jec-assets\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/article\/full\/14839\/pil-miffed-over-9-month-sentence-in-halfway-house\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/2000-05-31\/news\/postscript\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yisroel Pensack posts on Failed Messiah: The original corrupt multimillion-dollar &#8220;charity&#8221; used-car fraud king was Chabad-Lubavitch &#8220;Rabbi&#8221; Bentzion Pil from San Francisco. 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