One lingering thought. There were actually a lot of people who profited from Mastro's fraud - in particular the people whose consignments to Mastro were shilled by Mastro. I wonder how many of these "profiteers" were the people who gave Mastro glowing endorsements to have his sentenced reduced?
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain
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