European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Justice some notoriety and a Good fight by de Reavis staff writer. Israeli lawyer Yoram Sheftel said he hat a Quot gut feeling Quot when he took Ori his last client. He did t realize that feeling would make him the Rrios despised Man in his country Sheftel s client was John a Demjan Juk the Man called Quot Ivan the terrible Quot by some and Quot the beast in human disguise Quot by others the names have stuck despite. Demjan Juk s acquittal by an israeli appeals court and his return to the United states. V Demjan Juk a retired Cleveland autoworkers is fighting to regain his american citizenship which was taken from him when he was deported to Israel As a War crimes suspect in 1981, prosecutors said Demjan Juk was a vicious guard who had helped murder Hund ords of thousands of jews in the nazi  in Treblinka Poland. Sheftel who was in Frankfurt Germany recently to promote his Book the Demjan Juk affair a the Rise and fall of a shiny trial said the Case has. Changed his life.  Demjan Juk  meant suffering a two year Long attack on my reputation by the israeli establishment press and an add attack on my face. It also meant living with constant threats to life and . The risks were obvious to All but Sheftel nonetheless aggressively sought Demjanik As a client. Quot i wanted the Case badly but i based my decision on three conditions. One the Flimsy evidence against Demjan Juk. Two my private impression of the Man. And three that Demjan Juk agree that there was a holocaust and that the real Ivan the terrible committed horrible  said the evidence the americans used to Deport Demjan Juk was a farce. In a sense the 6th . Circuit court of appeals agreed fast week alien it ruled that its own order authorizing Demjan Juk s extradition in 1986 was tainted because of prosecutor misconduct that amounted to fraud against the  Sheftel s View the court has admitted it was hoodwinked into believing Demjan Juk was Quot Ivan the  Quot the american court threw out the evidence against Demjan Juk which consisted solely of a poster with lineup photos of sought nazi criminals Quot he said Sheftel 44, describes with emotion his Uphill Battle against the israeli establishment and Media. Quot they were calling Demjan Juk a Ivan Demjan Juk Yoram Sheftel in 1999, shows the effect of an acid attack. The terrible from the Start and All my remarks and statements were subject to ridicule Quot he said. Sheftel said the Demjan Juk trial was destined to be Quot a  no one was interested in the fads he said and with the hysteria created by the Case it seemed everyone wanted to see Demjan Juk executed. After a lengthy and emotional trial Demjan Juk was found guilty. Quot six Days before i could Appeal the decision judge Dove Ethan died under mysterious circumstances. At the funeral a Man attacked me by throwing acid in my face Quot Sheftel said. Quot my left Eye has been impaired Ever since but the Good part about the attack was that it gave us an 18-month trial postponement which we sorely  during the delay the polish government opened its archives. Quot i made two trips to Poland and the soviet Union in 1990 and found material in the Kab files that not Only delayed continuation of the Case for two years but Ted to Demjan Juk s acquittal in 1993.&Quot Sheftel described Demjan Juk As a simple Eastern european peasant a Quot peasant Quot in the Good sense of the word a honest and straightforward Quot he s a very Ordinary but a very warm person Quot Sheftel said. The attorney said one of the most vicious chapters in the Case came at the end when it was obvious that. Demjan Juk could not be the real Quot Ivan the  the israeli government made what Sheftel derides As a face saving move by claiming Demjan Juk was t Quot Ivan Quot but worked at another concentration Camp and therefore was a War criminal. Quot that was a blow beneath the Belt they paraded in numerous Surv ivors from Many concentration Camps but no one could say they recognized Demjan Juk no one could place him in another concentration Camp yet the idea persists a he was a concentration Camp guard a Shefter said. The israeli District attorney Sheftel said turned Down additional attempts to retry Demjan Juk because the evidence against him was obviously Quot non existent Quot speaking from his office in Tel Aviv fast week Sheftel said he had sold die English language rights to his Book and that French and Spanish publishers have purchased options. So far the Book is out Only in hebrew. Quot the whole Story of the Demjan Juk trial is out Here in Israel for anybody who wants to know. I Hope people abroad will also want to know Sheftel said. Sheftel concedes that he wanted the Demjan Juk Case in part for the notoriety but also insists he likes a Good fight for Justice. He also admitted that his Choice of clients might have something to do with the fact that he is a Sabra a native born israeli. Sabra the prickly Cactus fruit was chosen to describe the native born israeli because it supposedly symbolizes the Char altered the people a hard on the outside and soft inside. Quot this desire for a Good scrap got started Back in my student Days when Meyer Lansky tried to Settle in Israel in 1970,&Quot Sheftel recalled. Sheftel said the . Government. Pressured the israeli government to throw Lansky out because they wanted to try him on mafia business. "1 founded the student committee for the defense of Meyer Lansky. I thought the israeli government was breaking its own Laws by not allowing Lansky into the country Quot he said. Quot we lost the Battle and Lansky an old and sick Man was deported in 1972.&Quot but Sheftel said through his activity for the old mobster they became Good friends Over the Telephone. Quot during the yom kippur War oct. 624,1973 i was in the service but Lansky called my Mother in Jerusalem from Florida every single Day for seven months to make sure everything was Alt right Quot Sheftel said. Sheftel said his Mother had a soft spot for Lansky because he spoke fluent and a charming yiddish. Once he became a lawyer Sheftel took the Lansky Case Back to court and got the government to allow Lansky to return to Israel but Only for one month each year. Quot by that time Lansky was too old to travel and he died before Ever returning Quot Sheftel said. Quot but i did get to see him in Florida. In 1981 he called me in Israel and invited me to come to Florida to watch a to series on american gangsters. One of the characters in the series was based partly on Lansky. Quot so there i was a the Little lawyer from Tel Aviv sitting in a room with 25. Known mobsters i was the Only straight person in the place sitting there watching the gangster chronicles and listening to All the comments the. A big Guys were making a it was quite an  Short subject stolen . Cars find their Way to China by Robert Benjamin the Baltimore Sun the last time Scott Shulman saw his 1988 Jaguar was feb. 24, when to left the car running while he ducked inside a Northeast Philadelphia convenience store for a few minutes. When he returned it was gone. Now its in China. The elegant Black Sedan a its front doors still bearing the initials of shut men smother in Small Gold script a sits under a heavy coat of grime among hundreds of upscale foreign cars in a string of wide open sates lots. How Shulman s car which the Fri lists As stolen made it from Philadelphia to the Rural township of Jiu Jiang in Southern China s Huangdong province is not precisely known. But its Legal journey across the Globe Sheds Light on the rapidly growing problem of stolen cars in the United states being exported for Sale in other nations. There a no question the car is Shulmann a. The vehicle identification number a Hearty visible through the Windshield is the same. . Officials believe that about 200,000 stolen cars a year Are sent from the United states to  nations Are among the top recipients China recently emerged As a hot spot but the scale of chinese involvement is unknown. The Jiu Jiang sales lot with Shulman s Jaguar and dozens of similar lots lining an almost mile Long strip of Highway specialize in High end japanese German and american makes of cars virtually pm late models or new. Brazenly operating for More than a year this huge privately run Market has become Well known in booming Huangdong province and other parts of China As the place to go for foreign luxury vehicles. While prices Are High by . Standards they Are cheap for China where import tariffs and other fees raise the total Cost of legally imported luxury cars to As much As five times their . Price tag. Jiu Jiang dealers Are Able to offer relatively Good prices because Many a if not All a of their cars have been imported illegally. Dealers Tell buyers they must obtain various required licenses and certificates on China a Black Market wheels and engines have been removed from some of the cars for Sale at the Tot apparently so that they could be imported falsely under lower tariffs As Auto parts. Dealers reassemble the cars for buyers. Many of the vehicles Are believed to have been stolen abroad including but not solely in the United states say . Law enforcement sources who recently became aware of the Jiu Jiang Market. Yet Jiu Jiang dealers operate openly and confidently even though the local Public Security office is nearby. In China this sort of illegal activity typically does not take place so openly without police involvement. Chinese customs officers were Likely bribed to allow at least some of the cars into China . Law enforcement sources say. Tan Jian Kang the 25-year-old manager of the lot where Shulman s Jaguar is for Sale 1 alluded directly to official Protection when he bragged to a potential buyer a your connections with the Quot you know who Are really Good so there won t be any problems when you buy a car Here. A . Officials Learned about the Jiu Jiang Market and Huangdong province s links with car thieves to the United states earlier this year while breaking up a car theft ring that sent cars to China from a Philadelphia scrap Yard. 22 the stars and stripes wednesday november 24,1993