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Jeff LichtmanLeon is wrong when he claimed that Doug's comment about not knowing about a federal investigation equates to the lack of an investigation. A lawsuit would have already been filed by Mastro against the Daily News for libel if no such investigation is underway (in my opinion). Leon, prove you wrong? Should I contact the FBI myself and ask them to make public their investigation? As I said days ago, let Randy Mastro or Doug Allen come on this board and claim that they have not a scintialla of information that an FBI investigation is underway against Mastro. They won't because it would be a lie.
All that being said, the only pertinent thing here is that an investigation is underway. If Mastro is cleared then good for them, good for us and we can all breathe a sigh of relief. If not, the chips will fall where they fall. But raising concern about Mastro's involvement in shill bidding due to a pending FBI investigation is not un-American; we're not convicting them -- we're simply expressing our concern considering our own finanical exposures here. That is a normal, prudent thing to do, correct? If Leon was arrested for molesting a child (sorry Leon, just using you as a for instance) would we rush to send our kids over to his house to be babysat? Course not. Would we stand by him and support his legal fight to clear his name? Of course we would. Let's not confuse concern with the current investigation of Mastro with unfairly convicting them before any indictment has been secured.