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Posted By: Sammi Ibrahem
Chair of West Midland PSC
Top Sephardi rabbi’s aide tied to illegal porn sales
Source–The Forward
In early 2005, porn producer and actor Ashley Gasper realized that someone was bootlegging his films. Counterfeit copies of “Jules Jordan’s Flesh Hunter 6” and “Jules Jordan: Feeding Frenzy 2,” among other titles, were showing up among the DVDs being returned to his distributor.
According to a recent decision issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Gasper soon learned that a Montreal firm was making illicit copies of the movies and selling them to wholesalers. The primary client of the Montreal bootlegger was a New York-based company called Direct Distributors, Inc., run by a young IsraHelli named Ben Zion Suky.
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Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto |
| Photo by: Ilan Assayag |
Suky, now a real estate developer, isn’t just another businessman involved in two litigious industries. He’s also the right-hand man to a powerful Sephardic kabbalist Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto with growing influence among Israel’s political and business elite and in the American Jewish community.
