82-Year-Old Accused Of Selling Fake Michael Jordan Cards

This undated photograph supplied by the U.S. Lawyer's workplace, reveals a counterfeit Michael Jordan basketball card prosecutors say was considered one of a number of traded and bought by a Colorado man. Prosecutors in New York say 82-year-old Mayo Gilbert McNeil made greater than $800,000 off the scheme over 4 years. (U.S. Lawyer Japanese District of New York through AP)

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NEW YORK (AP) — An 82-year-old Colorado man was charged Wednesday with promoting and buying and selling pretend Michael Jordan basketball playing cards in a scheme that prosecutors mentioned resulted in him making greater than $800,000 over 4 years.

Mayo Gilbert McNeil was arrested in Denver, the place he lives, after a grievance was unsealed in federal court docket in Brooklyn charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in response to the Brooklyn U.S. Lawyer’s workplace.

McNeil was accused of creating quite a few fraudulent offers starting in 2015, together with the 2019 sale of a counterfeit card to a sufferer in Manhasset, New York, for $4,500, and a 2017 deal during which he traded two counterfeit playing cards for 2 genuine Tom Brady soccer playing cards.

“Mr. McNeil defrauded sports activities memorabilia collectors of greater than $800,000 by deliberately misrepresenting the authenticity of the buying and selling playing cards he was peddling when, in truth, they have been counterfeit,” Michael Driscoll, assistant director-in-charge of the FBI’s New York subject workplace, mentioned in a information launch.

In a quick telephone name, McNeil mentioned he was launched with out bail after an preliminary look in U.S. District Court docket in Colorado.

“I did nothing improper,” he mentioned, declining to remark at size.

Prosecutors mentioned he'll seem in a New York courtroom at a later date.

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