Mastro pleads guilty

[martindl]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Guys, Bill Mastro's crimes in this hobby did not start and end with the trimming of the Wagner card. His fraud was ongoing, systematic and all-encompassing. The great majority of people who bid in a Mastro auction were victims of his fraud.

I'm surprised at all the focus on the one trimmed card when ^^^^ is really the bigger issue. Allegedly, one of the hobby's biggest auction houses was for years ripping off it's customers, be it with altered cards, misrepresented items or just plain old shill bidding.