OT: Criminal embezzles to buy forged autographs

[isaac2004]

This was on the news last night, EVH contacted them and got this item removed

http://wgntv.com/2013/09/16/jesse-ja...-from-auction/

[shelly]

I just hung up with the auction house. They are haveing the Marshall's office call me in regards to the autographs. I also had them contact the FBI to have them check on the Donald and Drew Max.

[Runscott]

Hilarious.

Everyone has something wrong with them. In addition to the stuff he got convicted for, Jackson apparently has a shopping habit. Very common addiction these days, along with all the usual ones.

[packs]

As mentioned seems like a conflict of ethics for the government to seize stolen property and then sell fraudulent memorabilia it's actively trying to eliminate from the market.

[shelly]

Packs, I said that to the auction house. They said they could not take it down only the Marshalls office. I am waiting for there call.

[slidekellyslide]

This is actually kind of funny.

[packs]

I don't understand how the government can sell memorabilia with certificates of authenticity from a person the FBI itself investigated and tried to indict for authenticating forged memorabilia. What kind of crap is this. I'm honestly outraged that so much money would be wasted on an investigation ten years ago, further money stolen, and now the government sanctions a sale of property they tried to eliminate from the marketplace.

Our tax dollars at work I guess.

[shelly]

Marshalls office takes every thing they get there hands on to get back money. They place it in auction houses and have really no idea if there real or not. Then the auction house is told there bad and they say the Marshalls gave them to us. It is a catch twenty two.
I hope I will be able to get them down.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by packs

I don't understand how the government can sell memorabilia with certificates of authenticity from a person the FBI itself investigated and tried to indict for authenticating forged memorabilia. What kind of crap is this. I'm honestly outraged that so much money would be wasted on an investigation ten years ago, further money stolen, and now the government sanctions a sale of property they tried to eliminate from the marketplace.

Our tax dollars at work I guess.

Crap. Someone's going to have to lose an audit to pay for all of this

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by packs

I don't understand how the government can sell memorabilia with certificates of authenticity from a person the FBI itself investigated and tried to indict for authenticating forged memorabilia. What kind of crap is this. I'm honestly outraged that so much money would be wasted on an investigation ten years ago, further money stolen, and now the government sanctions a sale of property they tried to eliminate from the marketplace.

Our tax dollars at work I guess.

Believe it or not, "the government" doesn't all work out of the same office and hang out around the water cooler talking over each others' cases. I would be very surprised if anyone at the Marshall's office even knows anyone who was investigating these guys, let alone is privy to the details of the case. I imagine it's much as Shelly described where everything is scooped up and shuffled off to the auction house with little or no thought to the possibility that any of it could be fake or the "certs" for each piece might just be a waste of perfectly good paper.

Hopefully with a bit of help from Shelly and others this can all be sorted out, but I really don't think this is a case of willful disregard for previous efforts by the FBI.