Los Angeles ( CNN ) -- The Egyptian-American man behind the inflammatory film `` Innocence of Muslims '' denied Wednesday violating the terms of his probation from a 2010 bank fraud conviction . Mark Basseley Youssef made the denial in a federal courtroom during a proceeding in which prosecutors are seeking to revoke the probation . The amateur filmmaker from Cerritos , California , denied each of the eight instances in which prosecutors alleged he violated his supervised release from federal custody . He is now being held without bail . An evidentiary hearing on the charges will be held November 9 . The filmmaker was identified in initial news accounts last month as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula , the name used in the bank fraud case . But the probation revocation case lists the defendant as Mark Basseley Youssef , which the filmmaker stated in court last month is his legal name . The use of aliases is among the allegations that the prosecutors are citing in their case to revoke Youssef 's probation and return him to prison for two years . Specifically , prosecutors are accusing Youssef of using a name other than his legal one in December 2010 ; possessing a driver 's license under the Nakoula name ; possessing a fraudulent driver 's license ; using the name Sam Bacile on August 7 , 2011 , the name he allegedly used in making the controversial film ; and falsely telling his probation officer last month that he had n't used the Bacile name . Youssef is also accused of falsely telling his probation officers on September 15 that his role in the film was limited solely as the writer . Youssef garnered international attention following protests against his film throughout the Muslim world . His film was initially implicated in the violent demonstration last month in Libya that left the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead last month . U.S. officials initially said the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi and a nearby U.S. annex came as protesters outside the consulate rallied against the online video that offensively portrays Islam 's Prophet Mohammed . That explanation has shifted with time . The Obama administration now says the incident was a terrorist attack , occurring 11 years to the day after the September 11 , 2001 , attacks on New York 's World Trade Center and the Pentagon . After Wednesday 's court hearing , Youssef 's attorney told reporters that his client `` had nothing to do with the violence that occurred in the Middle East as a result of the film . `` Clearly it was pre-planned , '' attorney Steve Seiden said about the Benghazi incident . FBI visits site of attack in Libya . The defendant is a Coptic Christian , a religious minority in Egypt where Copt-Muslim relations are tense , authorities say . His film , backed by hard-core anti-Islam groups in the United States , is a low-budget project that was largely ignored when trailers were posted on YouTube in English last June . But protests erupted in Egypt , Yemen , Tunisia , Morocco , Sudan , Iran , Iraq , Israel and the Palestinian territories when an Arabic translation of the trailer was released a few weeks before the anniversary of September 11 . A Chechen court ruled the film to be extremist and banned it in the Russian republic , according to information minister Murat Tagiyev . State Department officials : Benghazi attack 'unprecedented ' The amateurish film portrays the Prophet Mohammed as a womanizer , buffoon , ruthless killer and child molester . Islam categorically forbids any depictions of Mohammed , and blasphemy is an incendiary taboo in the Muslim world . When news of his movie first broke , the filmmaker identified himself as Sam Bacile and told The Wall Street Journal he was a 52-year-old Israeli-American real estate developer from California . He said Jewish donors had financed his film . But Israel 's Foreign Ministry said there was no record of a Sam Bacile with Israeli citizenship . 'Innocence of Muslims ' actress sues filmmaker , YouTube . A production staff member who worked on the film in its initial stages told CNN that a different name was filed on the paperwork for the Screen Actors Guild : Abenob Nakoula Bassely . A public records search showed an Abanob B. Nakoula residing at the same address as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula . Another staffer who worked on the film said he knew the producer as Sam Bassil . That 's how he signed a personal check to pay staff . In the bank fraud conviction , Youssef served one year in federal prison at Lompoc , California , but officials could n't say recently whether he paid any of the court-ordered restitution of $ 794,700 , according to probation department officials and court records . While on probation , Youssef was also prohibited from accessing computers or any device that can access the Internet without approval from his probation officer . U.S. official sought more security for Benghazi post . Meanwhile , the U.S. House Oversight Committee held a hearing Wednesday on the administration 's handling of the attack in Benghazi , Libya , that killed U.S . Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans . Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy rebutted criticism by Republicans of an alleged lack of preparedness ahead of the consulate attack and a shifting response by the Obama administration following the assault . `` We regularly assess risk and resource allocation , a process involving the considered judgments of experienced professionals on the ground and in Washington , using the best available information , '' Kennedy told the Republican-controlled committee . The assault on the U.S. compound was `` an unprecedented attack by dozens of heavily armed men , '' Kennedy said . What Obama administration has said about Libya attack .
NEW : Youssef 's film had ` ` nothing to do with '' Benghazi , which was ` ` pre - planned , '' his lawyer said . The president denies prosecutors ' s allegations that he received probation . Youssef is behind the film that provoked protests in Muslim world . Congress holds a hearing on this at the Tripoli , Libya , airport .