In the Washington Post a couple days ago, there was an article about a rabbi who locates, purchases, restores, and re-sells Torah scrolls (usually from somewhere in eastern Europe/the FSU).
There is only one problem ... it appears that perhaps he is not telling the truth about where they come from when he is selling them to new owners. Read the story here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012203257.html?sid=ST2010012500035
In the story, there are several references to buyers simply trusting the rabbi to tell the truth ... but what if he's not? It makes all rabbis (and worse yet, all Jews) look bad ... this is not what we need.
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