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  1. December 11, 2024

    SEC Must Revisit $23M Demand In Collectibles Fraud Case

    A New Jersey federal judge has ordered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to recalculate its $23 million bid for disgorgement in a long-running suit against a sports memorabilia merchant found liable at trial last year for ripping off investors, in part by lying about the value of two contracts signed by baseball legend Jackie Robinson.

  2. August 02, 2024

    Judge Snuffs Out Collectibles Exec's Bid For New Fraud Trial

    A New York federal judge has spurned the efforts of a collectibles entrepreneur convicted of fraud to get a new trial, saying notes the defendant believes would have swayed the outcome are not as important as he thinks and probably inadmissible.

  3. December 14, 2023

    Fugitive Collectibles Impresario Found Liable By NY Jury

    A Manhattan federal jury promptly found fugitive collectibles entrepreneur Mykalai Kontilai and his company, Collectors Coffee Inc., liable Wednesday for looting a large chunk of $20 million that investors put into his failed sports-focused memorabilia and media business.

  4. December 08, 2023

    Off The Bench: NCAA Pay Plan, Title IX Claims, Graffiti Smear

    In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA proposes opening the vaults, female athletes accuse the University of Oregon of unequal treatment, and a former college hockey player claims he was wrongly labeled as antisemitic. If you were on the sidelines over the past week, Law360 is here to clue you in on the biggest sports and betting stories that had our readers talking.

  5. December 07, 2023

    Antiques Exec Had Ex-Mistress Haul Bag Of Cash, Jury Hears

    A onetime mistress of fugitive collectibles entrepreneur Mykalai Kontilai on Thursday told Manhattan jurors hearing securities regulators' $6 million fraud case against Kontilai that she once lugged a trash bag stuffed with cash through a Las Vegas hotel for him.

  6. December 05, 2023

    Aspiring Antiques Bigwig Took $6M And Fled, SEC Tells Jury

    A Nevada man who raised $20 million from investors to launch a sports-focused collectibles and media empire misappropriated $6 million before fleeing the United States, securities regulators told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday.

  7. May 20, 2022

    Jackie Robinson Group Tries To Dodge Claims Over Contracts

    The Jackie Robinson Foundation on Thursday asked a New York federal judge to toss what it called baseless claims in a tangled legal battle over the baseball legend's color barrier-breaking player contracts.

  8. November 18, 2021

    SEC Gets Partial Win In Investor Whistleblower Protection Suit

    An online sports memorabilia auctioneer muzzled investors in violation of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower protections, a New York federal judge said Wednesday, handing the SEC a partial win in its fraud case against the store and its fugitive CEO.

  9. July 22, 2021

    Investors Get SEC Whistleblower Protections Too, Judge Says

    A New York federal judge held Wednesday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower protection rule extends to shareholders, keeping alive the agency's claim that a sports memorabilia company illegally muzzled investors.

  10. February 11, 2021

    SEC Pans Fugitive CEO's 'Straw-Man' Effort To Depose Attys

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission urged a New York federal court on Thursday to reject an attempt by the fugitive CEO of a sports memorabilia company to depose the agency's attorneys as part of a fraud suit, decrying "straw-man" arguments he and his company made opposing a magistrate judge's order.

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