Mastro Judge Strikes Down Plea Agreement

It's about time.

I hope this, and other judicial rulings pertaining to AHs, is a sign of things to come.

[calvindog]

Weak. The US Attorney's office in Chicago should be ashamed of themselves. When a judge is tougher than the prosecutors are toward a non-cooperating defendant, well, that is a disgrace. Mastro had his priest there and surely he will claim he has an alcohol problem in order to further reduce his sentence. Pitiful.

[Runscott]

You think he'll tell them where the diamonds are?

[travrosty]

any plea deal with a reduction in sentencing should involve mastro telling everything he knows about everybody he has knowledge of who engaged in illegal practices, whether or not they are the other principals of the auction house, authenticators, friends, accomplices, anybody, or else no deal.

[Wymers Auction]

Originally Posted by bubblebathgirl

It's about time.

I hope this, and other judicial rulings pertaining to AHs, is a sign of things to come.

Were you once kidnapped by an AH?

[Brian Van Horn]

I like this judge!

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by Wymers Auction

Were you once kidnapped by an AH?

That's very funny! One thing you can be sure of, he doesn't have Stockholm Syndrome.

[murcerfan]

Mastro had his priest there and surely he will claim he has an alcohol problem in order to further reduce his sentence. Pitiful.


oxycodone made him do it....surprised they didn't pay an MD to take a fall for over-writing a script....what with all the post-traumatic-auction-stress syndrome and all.

[lharri3600]

Originally Posted by murcerfan

Mastro had his priest there and surely he will claim he has an alcohol problem in order to further reduce his sentence. Pitiful.


oxycodone made him do it....surprised they didn't pay an MD to take a fall for over-writing a script....what with all the post-traumatic-auction-stress syndrome and all.

nope greed made him do it

[WhenItWasAHobby]

Originally Posted by murcerfan

Mastro had his priest there and surely he will claim he has an alcohol problem in order to further reduce his sentence. Pitiful.


oxycodone made him do it....surprised they didn't pay an MD to take a fall for over-writing a script....what with all the post-traumatic-auction-stress syndrome and all.

I'm also surprised he didn't bring a violinist along to play a heart-wrenching lament while he was throwing himself at the mercy of the court since it was recently alleged that he claimed that "he was indicted due to people with axes to grind".

Hopefully more of the "culprits" will receive justice because of the recent turn of events.

[thehoodedcoder]

something is wrong or maybe i am missing something.

from this source: http://haulsofshame.com/blog/?p=13261

"A source familiar with the case told Haulsofshame.com that the Feds based their fraud count regarding the Wagner trimming on Federal wiretaps that caught Mastro admitting he had trimmed the card sometime after he purchased it for $25,000 with his friend and associate Rob Lifson in Long Island in 1985."

if the feds got a taping of this back in 1985 why now 18 years later is this just getting resolved?

kevin

[frankbmd]

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The 'marm knows how to figure as well.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by thehoodedcoder

something is wrong or maybe i am missing something.

from this source: http://haulsofshame.com/blog/?p=13261

"A source familiar with the case told Haulsofshame.com that the Feds based their fraud count regarding the Wagner trimming on Federal wiretaps that caught Mastro admitting he had trimmed the card sometime after he purchased it for $25,000 with his friend and associate Rob Lifson in Long Island in 1985."

if the feds got a taping of this back in 1985 why now 18 years later is this just getting resolved?

kevin

He purchased the card in 1985. The wiretap is not from 1985.

[jdr424]

The indictment was for Mastro, Doug Allen, and Mark Theotikos. There was a 4th (main) person involved that was not included in this indictment and also unnamed. The indictment named him Co-schemer A. Who is the 4th person?