Jason Kelce
$200k Memorabilia Rip-off Uncovered
… 3 Charged W/ Felonies
Revealed
Jason Kelce‘s signature is price a reasonably penny … and officers say three individuals tried to capitalize, allegedly promoting $200K price of faux memorabilia, earlier than they have been busted!
The Montgomery County District Lawyer’s Workplace (PA) introduced Thursday that Robert Capone, LeeAnn Branco, and Joseph Parenti are dealing with 60 felony counts, starting from theft to forgery, for his or her alleged roles within the scheme.
Capone, 51, Branco, 43, and Parenti, 39, are accused of mendacity concerning the authenticity and provenance of greater than 1,100 objects, together with helmets, jerseys, photographs and footballs, promoting the objects on an internet site as real-deal signed Kelce merch.
Authorities say Branco, in June 2024, attended an autograph signing in Pennsylvania the place Kelce was current, taking a photograph with the Professional Bowl lineman “in order to validate her in-the-presence authentication of the forged memorabilia that was never actually signed by Kelce.”
Finally, officers say the pretend objects have been offered by way of two sports activities memorabilia companies owned by Capone and Parenti, with Branco, an worker of Beckett Authentication Providers, offering false verification.
After objects have been offered, authorities say a neighborhood police division was tipped off that one thing was fallacious … they usually started investigating.
Capone was arraigned on Wednesday … and launched on $100k bail. He has a listening to scheduled in early February.
As for the opposite two, they haven’t but turned themselves in (although that is anticipated quickly) … the place they are going to then even be arraigned in a PA courtroom.
