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Tom B.on WHAT exactly WIWAG did........
The article from Rocky states......Collectors Universe said the charges were based, in part, upon evidence provided to the FBI by PSA that cards sold by the defendants over the Internet were purported to have been graded by PSA when, in fact, they were not. Consequently, the cards did not merit the grades defendants represented them to have.
So......it doesn't specifically say that they were cracking. Someone else on another thread suggested maybe that they got the holders and copied the labels or something. Maybe there were duplicate tags with the same number.
Also, if they WERE cracking, I'm sure they weren't doing anything as blatant as a VG card in a NRMT/MT holder. The biggest price differentials are between 7/8 and 8/9 stuff. Or they could be trimming things and then slabbing.
Also, as to why FBI got involved in it, wasn't the FBI Operation Bullpen for autographs located in San Diego or something? Maybe they were working in conjunction with them. Some type of extension of that investigation.
Whatever the results, it will be interesting to see how much farther it goes.......did anyone else knowingly sell the cards to a third party? I thought MW had some damming (sic) evidence he was going to post when it was in correct format.