{"id":41692,"date":"2016-02-03T00:07:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T07:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/?p=41692"},"modified":"2016-02-03T00:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T07:07:38","slug":"daily-news-updates-their-ongoing-investigation-on-mastro-auctions-fraud-case-prosecutors-seek-four-year-prison-sentence-for-doug-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/03\/daily-news-updates-their-ongoing-investigation-on-mastro-auctions-fraud-case-prosecutors-seek-four-year-prison-sentence-for-doug-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Updates Their Ongoing Investigation on Mastro Auctions Fraud Case; Prosecutors Seek Four Year Prison Sentence for Doug Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p5KqHO-aQs\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2016\/02\/Mastro-Auctions-Doug-Allen-Prison-Sentence-Memorabilia-Fraud-Court-Case-FBI-Investigation.jpg\" alt=\"Mastro-Auctions-Doug-Allen-Prison-Sentence-Memorabilia-Fraud-Court-Case-FBI-Investigation\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2016\/02\/Mastro-Auctions-Doug-Allen-Prison-Sentence-Memorabilia-Fraud-Court-Case-FBI-Investigation.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2016\/02\/Mastro-Auctions-Doug-Allen-Prison-Sentence-Memorabilia-Fraud-Court-Case-FBI-Investigation-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2016\/02\/Mastro-Auctions-Doug-Allen-Prison-Sentence-Memorabilia-Fraud-Court-Case-FBI-Investigation-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2016\/02\/Mastro-Auctions-Doug-Allen-Prison-Sentence-Memorabilia-Fraud-Court-Case-FBI-Investigation-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2016\/02\/Mastro-Auctions-Doug-Allen-Prison-Sentence-Memorabilia-Fraud-Court-Case-FBI-Investigation-332x190.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2016\/02\/Mastro-Auctions-Doug-Allen-Prison-Sentence-Memorabilia-Fraud-Court-Case-FBI-Investigation-700x400.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael O&#8217;Keeffe with the New York Daily News continues to chronicle the ongoing saga surrounding Mastro Auctions and the Justice Department&#8217;s prosecution of principals from the sports memorabilia auction house, based on the FBI investigation that began in 2007.\u00a0 Yesterday, prosecutor filed papers with the Chicago federal court seeking a 57 month prison term for former Mastro Auctions president, Doug Allen, as a result of his &#8220;outright contempt&#8221; for law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>As noted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/04\/the-9th-annual-original-prop-blog-year-in-review-for-2015-news-developments-and-trends-in-collecting-original-tv-movie-props-costumes-and-pop-culture-memorabilia\/\" target=\"_blank\">my 2015 Year In Review feature <\/a>last month, <em>disgraced sports memorabilia pioneer\u201d<\/em> Bill Mastro, Founder and CEO of Mastro Auctions, was sentenced to 20 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Ronald A. Guzman.<\/p>\n<p>The auction house was shut down in 2009 during the FBI investigation.\u00a0 Mastro plead guilty to shill bidding and mail fraud and admitted to trimming\/altering a high value trading card to increase it\u2019s value.<\/p>\n<p>Per the latest Daily News article, Doug Allen participated in their fraud scheme for seven years, and continued with fraud, including shill bidding, even after learning of the FBI investigation.\u00a0 The filing estimates that Allen&#8217;s crimes resulted in losses between $550,000 to $1,500,000, including selling known fake items and restoring a rare collectible card without notifying bidders.<\/p>\n<p>Per the feature, Mastro Auctions was considered <em>&#8220;the leading sports memorabilia auction house for most of the 1990s and 2000s&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend reading the full Daily News feature over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/more-sports\/ex-maestro-auctions-president-facing-4-plus-years-prison-article-1.2517962\" target=\"_blank\">www.NYDailyNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jason DeBord<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael O&#8217;Keeffe with the New York Daily News continues to chronicle the ongoing saga surrounding Mastro Auctions and the Justice Department&#8217;s prosecution of principals from the sports memorabilia auction house, based on the FBI investigation that began in 2007.\u00a0 Yesterday, prosecutor filed papers with the Chicago federal court seeking a 57 month prison term for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1751,1752,5510,4],"tags":[7541,7540,369,97,2957,375,1082,7537,7538,4831,60,2958,5846,7539,5352,2965,2139,7313],"class_list":{"0":"post-41692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fraud-in-the-news","8":"category-governmental-agencies-law-enforcement","9":"category-legal-disputes-court-rulings","10":"category-news-events","11":"tag-bill-mastro","12":"tag-doug-allen","13":"tag-fbi","14":"tag-fraud","15":"tag-guilty","16":"tag-investigation","17":"tag-law-enforcement","18":"tag-mastro","19":"tag-mastro-auction","20":"tag-mastro-auctions","21":"tag-memorabilia","22":"tag-plea","23":"tag-prison","24":"tag-prison-term","25":"tag-prosecution","26":"tag-sentencing","27":"tag-shill-bidding","28":"tag-sports-memorabilia","29":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n<title>Daily News Updates Their Ongoing Investigation on Mastro Auctions Fraud Case; 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