FINANCIAL TROUBLES over the From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Forbidden Book exhibition:

Injunction issued on scroll exhibit (Akron Beacon Journal)

Trustee temporarily will run Akron display while litigation is ironed out

Beacon Journal staff report

The show's going on, but the behind-the-scenes fight over the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in downtown Akron ratcheted up on Wednesday.

A federal bankruptcy judge issued a temporary injunction that put a trustee in charge of the exhibit at the John S. Knight Center.

That won't mean anything for visitors who troop to the convention center to see the priceless scroll fragments and other artifacts that depict how the Bible came to be.

But it did cheer a Tennessee physician who is suing his former business partners, Bath Township millionaire collector Bruce Ferrini and California antiquities expert Lee Biondi, over alleged financial improprieties for the traveling exhibit.

``I'm just thrilled,'' said Dr. William Noah. ``I've been in court for three months trying to get the bills paid.''

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A week after the show closed at its first venue in Dallas, Noah filed a civil suit in District Court in Akron alleging that almost $400,000 he invested in the company could not be accounted for and that bills in Dallas hadn't been paid.

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Ferrini and Biondi have called Noah a ``jealous Scroll wannabe'' who ran an earlier show into financial ruin.