Bill Mastro's upcoming sentencing

[Brian Van Horn]

I have only lightly perused the discussion and I will keep my comments short.

Despite the history of the transactions on the card and the criticism of Leon, the right thing to the moment has been done. The card has been pulled.

The sad things about this are that it will have the following effects:

1. There will be less funds for Leon's daughter's college funds.
2. Leon has to deal with the consequences which are on a number of levels.
3. Although the right thing has been done in pulling the card, all involved including our hobby, have another matter that does not put collecting in the best of light.
4. Some members have voiced that they will now pass on the entire auction. The question now is how many collectors outside of members of Net54 will do the same?

There are other possible effects, but I will leave that to the other members of Net54 to discuss. I stated my comments would be short.

One final observation. Recently "Mysteries at the Museum" ran a piece on Mastro and it was featured in a post on Net54. I'm afraid that there will be another piece coming soon.