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Posted By: <b>shelly jaffe</b><p>First off I would like to thank Mr Morales for appearing on this thread. I hope his trip <br />to Mongolia was productive.<br /> <br />Mr Morales I would now like to answer and question some of the points in your post -<br /> <br />There is a resume of yours on the internet at -<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.forensicsignatureauthentications.com/files/Chris_Morales_No_phone_QD_Resume.PDF" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.forensicsignatureauthentications.com/files/Chris_Morales_No_phone_QD_Resume.PDF</a><br /> <br />It is a different resume than the one on your website and was placed there by the <br />company Forensic Signature Authentications. In that resume it says that you and Donald <br />Frangipani are currently partners in a company called Frangipani and Morales Forensic <br />Authentications and All City Investigations. If this is incorrect why did you allow this <br />company to publish this information? Though your resume is no longer linked to the <br />website of this Forensic Signature Authentications, the resume is still on the internet. <br />This company stated that you were one of their authenticators along with Donald <br />Frangipani. Were you an authenticator for this company? If not why did they post such <br />information. It was on the internet for quite some time.<br /><br />Mr Frangipani in his past SCD interview first states that he is your partner than states he is not. He then states that you are his protege. I sent Mr Frangipani approximately 500 forgeries and he authenticated ALL OF THEM. Are you really a protege of someone like that?<br /> <br />You state on your website that forensic examiners helped to bring me down. Exactly which forensic examiners did that?? You and I know there were none. Wayne Bray was responsible for bringing me and everyone else down. Would the FBI have used you or Mr Frangipani for this?<br /> <br />You have stated that "while in prison Jaffe contacted one company seeking employment. He <br />was turned down. The company was subsequently blasted on HBO". In order for me to <br />contact any person by phone they would have to be on my calling list which I had to have <br />in my incarceration. This is a federal rule. Nobody in this business was on my calling <br />list. I never wrote one letter while incarcerated so I don't know how you claim that I <br />contacted any company about employment. You also say that the company I contacted was <br />blasted by the HBO show. Well the companies and individuals that were blasted on the HBO <br />show were Donald Frangipani, William Tell, AAU, Christopher Morales and STAT. (STAT was <br />not yet in business while I was incarcerated). I would never try to work for or with any of those people or companies. Frangipani was blasted by an undercover investigation with a hidden camera and the other entities were blasted by having their COA's shown during the show and having the reporter state that these COA's were authentications of bogus items.<br />I did discuss employment with Tracercode and did work for them for a short time. <br />Everyone who has read this thread knows that. I don't remember discussing employment <br />with anyone else in this business. If you can prove that I did discuss employment, well <br />please go ahead and do it publicly. <br /> <br />Regarding the items that were used on the HBO show, they all came from Nate Harrison's <br />autograph items stash in the Federal warehouse. He knew exactly which items he had that <br />were forgeries. He, myself and Tim Fitzsimmons of the FBI took these items from the <br />Federal warehouse where all the items gathered during the Federal raids were kept. <br />We even went out of our way to pick one horribly forged item, in the vain attempt to see <br />if everyone would get that item correct. It was a horrendous autograph of Michael <br />Jordan, laughable actually. The only two authenticators to state it was authentic were <br />Donald Frangipani and you, Christopher Morales. Check with Tim Fitzsimmons if you doubt <br />this.<br /> <br />I would guess the number of items you have authenticated could number in the thousands. <br />If I am wrong, let me know. You have authenticated autographs in all categories. Where <br />are your exemplars for the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, Sinatra,Led Zeppelin and for all the other rare sports items? You have authenticated Josh Gibson's pants in the current CC auction. Let's see the exemplars for that signature. <br /><br />How did you obtain your exemplars? I am sure an autograph authenticator has vast exemplar files. Let's see some of yours. The authenticators I know in this field have taken many, many years to assemble a good exemplar file. How did you assemble yours?<br /> <br />How many items have you turned down for authentication? Can we see pictures of some of <br />those. I know of at least 2 authenticators that keep records of all the items that fail <br />their authentications. Do you?<br /> <br />Are you truly a qualified Questioned Document Examiner. If so why don't you have that <br />title?<br />If you are eligible to be in the Questioned Document Examiner of AAFS it is automatic, <br />it is not something you have an option about. It is also considered an honor to be in <br />that section. You are not in that section. <br />I could be wrong but I spoke to several people at AAFS about this, including Jerry <br />Richards, former FBI agent, who has been in Federal court many times and is now working <br />independently. He is a member of the board of AAFS. He was one of the persons to give me <br />this information about being in the Questioned Document section of AAFS.<br /> <br />We are also very interested in any court cases where your decision regarding handwriting <br />helped the government prove a case. Can you tell us any specifics regarding this?<br /> <br />Can you tell us one major auction house that is well regarded in the hobby where a COA <br />of yours has ever appeared?<br /> <br />I admit that my participation with the Marino family was a disaster for me. I made a <br />mistake. I have owned up to that. <br />I think that it is time for you to own up to the disaster that you are helping to <br />perpetuate, the authentication of autographs that are not authentic. You obviously have <br />no capabilities in this autograph field. <br /> <br />I admire the work you have done for the government, forensic work, Secret Service and <br />whatever else you might have done. <br />That has nothing to do with autographs. You are doing a disservice to the autograph <br />community with your work. You are costing people many, many thousands of dollars. I can <br />be fairly certain that many of the autographs you have authenticated have been bought <br />with the hopes that they might pay for a new house someday or perhaps a childs college <br />education. Years from now, those people will be crushed, perhaps financially ruined.<br /><br />I like to think that I know forgeries when I see them. I have looked at many CC auctions <br />over the years. It is sad to see what I see. What you are doing has to stop now. Stop doing this now. You are hurting people and you will continue to do so. Belive me I know how people feel when they find out that the items the bought where fake. <br />The reason I started this thread was to bring you to a public forum. I hurt people and I am sorry for it. I can't undo what I did, but you sure can. You are still hurting people and don't seem to care.<br />Once again I say please stop.<br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />