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Originally Posted by prewarsports
So much of what he did was heavily pre-meditated and the extent he took to defraud was second to none in hobby history. He even shaved the backs off photos to make them clean then added fake stamps. He was doing things on one hand to defraud banks for millions and then on the other hand he was taking photos worth $25 and spending considerable to time to try and make them worth $50. His big schemes started years before the incident they refer to in the article so its just another lie.
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No one.. and I mean no one has done more harm to the PHOTO hobby as Rodgers and there will never be a close second.
The junk/fakes he created, the archives he scattered without proper archiving(Burke/brace to name 1) and just irresponsibly flooding the hobby-> devaluing photos for a spell.
Not to mention, turning off great collectors who eventually left the hobby. It’s amazing the damage that one sociopath can do.