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A former New York lawyer who was posing as an orthodox rabbi in Toronto has been extradited to the United States, where he is accused of perpetrating a massive immigration fraud, raking in millions of dollars by processing up to 25,000 falsified immigration applications.
Earl Seth David, also known as Rabbi Avraham David, is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States, and fled to Canada when authorities uncovered what prosecutors called "a massive immigration fraud mill."
But to many in the Jewish community around Toronto, he was known as a Torah scholar and author of
Code of the Heart, a 2005 book claiming to decode the Torah, the Hebrew Bible.
His book uses numerology and other techniques to find hidden meaning that influence and foreshadow world events, including the war in Iraq, the 9/11 terror attacks and even the rape allegations against basketball star Kobe Bryant.
The book's promotional materials said the world would be hearing a lot more from Rabbi Avraham David. On Wednesday, it did.