Sold GFA (Stephen Rocchi) Certed Forgeries Of "Mantle"

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by shelly

I think you have all forgotten B&J collectibles. Steve went in there when his company was about to go belly up. He proceeded to authenticate hundreds of Dimaggio's, Mays, Koufax and the list go on. Every one of those items where forged.
He then teamed up with Tony Podsada to sell thousands of more forgeries on the market.
I would love both of them go come on here and deny it.

Yep.

Also, GAI "authenticated" thousands of Mantle, Williams, DiMaggio and Mays forgeries before they went bankrupt.

[RichardSimon]

Years ago Jimmy Spence told me in an e mail that Steve Rocchi entered into a deal with B&J to issue In The Presence PSA COA's for Joe DiMaggio autographs when the autographs were not actually witnessed by anyone with PSA. I had noticed an in the presence PSA COA for a DiMaggio signed ball on ebay which did not look authentic to me. I sent an e mail to Jimmy and that is what he told me. Jimmy did express his displeasure with the deal. It was obvious to me that Jimmy would not have authenticated the autograph that I saw on ebay.
I still have the e mail.