Press Release
Omaha Man Sentenced for Sale of Counterfeit Sports Trading Cards
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska
United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Thomas Beatty Jr., 45, was sentenced on Monday, October 29, 2018, in Omaha, Nebraska, by Chief United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp, for the crimes of mail fraud and money laundering. Chief Judge Smith Camp sentenced Beatty to 30 months’ imprisonment, a three-year term of supervised release, and ordered Beatty to make restitution in the amount of $142,000.
From June 2017 through November 2017, the Defendant advertised and sold on E-Bay rare and valuable sports trading cards including two of Mickey Mantle, and one each of Joe Namath and Bill Russell, worth $117,500. The cards were in fact not authentic but rather counterfeit and worth less than $10 each.
This case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service.
Updated November 2, 2018
Topic
Financial Fraud
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