Mastro Judge Strikes Down Plea Agreement

[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.

[MW1]

Lifson’s close links to Halper also played a part in the New York Daily News’ shielding him from suspicion in the card-trimming scandal. Halper was a close personal friend of Daily News reporter Bill Madden, who acted throughout the years as Halper’s unofficial press agent. The Daily News has intentionally not reported about the Halper scandals because of Madden’s close ties to the former Yankee limited partner. In fact, reporter O’Keeffe has gone as far as reporting that the documentation of instances of sales of fraudulent artifacts by Halper are simply “accusations.”

In their book, “The Card,” Thompson and O’Keeffe lauded Halper as “The Babe Ruth of sports memorabilia,” and described the “truly historic” items in his collection including “Shoeless Joe Jackson’s Black Betsy bat,” and “Ty Cobb’s dentures and rifle Cobb’s mother used to shoot his father.” All of those items used as examples of Halper’s “Cooperstown South,” however, have been determined to be fraudulent artifacts as a result of investigative reports written by Haulsofshame.com and SABR researcher Ron Cobb.

So in other words, HallsofShame.com is claiming that Teri Thompson and Michael O'Keeffe, either knowingly or unknowingly, assisted in helping to cover-up and/or perpetuate fraud. While I cannot comment on these accusations, I do know that O'Keeffe makes some absolutely ridiculous claims about John Cobb and Ray Edward's bogus Honus Wagner and goes so far as to assert in his book that the card is likely authentic.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by MW1

So in other words, HallsofShame.com is claiming that Teri Thompson and Michael O'Keeffe, either knowingly or unknowingly, assisted in helping to cover-up and/or perpetuate fraud. While I cannot comment on these accusations, I do know that O'Keeffe makes some absolutely ridiculous claims about John Cobb and Ray Edward's bogus Honus Wagner and goes so far as to assert in his book that the card is likely authentic.

I will have to ask Okeefe about that one. I can't imagine him, knowing as much as he does, would think the Cobb/Edward Wagner is legit. I will report back...unless I can get Mike to post about it himself.