Mister Mancave: How a conman made $350 million selling fake sports memorabilia
Sports memorabilia is big business in the United States.
Exceptional athletes can attain God-like status very quickly there, and everybody wants a piece.
The baseball that Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit for his 50th home run last season, recently sold for $4.3 million.
And if you are into buying sports memorabilia, chances are at some point you logged on to a website called Mister Man Cave, which boasts one of the largest football, baseball and basketball autograph inventories on the web.
That’s what it looked like, but all wasn’t as it seemed.
During an investigation into fraud…
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