Man to plead guilty in LA to Tom Brady Super Bowl ring fraud

LOS ANGELES — A New Jersey antheral who posed arsenic a erstwhile New England Patriots subordinate successful bid to bargain and merchantability Super Bowl rings that helium claimed were gifts to Tom Brady’s household volition plead blameworthy to fraud, national prosecutors said Monday.

Scott V. Spina Jr. of Roseland, NJ has agreed to plead blameworthy to ligament fraud, message fraud and aggravated individuality theft successful narration these “Brady”-engraved rings. pic.twitter.com/bzZOML5yf6

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The plea statement by Scott V. Spina Jr., 24, of Roseland was filed Monday successful Los Angeles national court. Spina volition plead blameworthy to 5 felony charges of ligament fraud, message fraud and aggravated individuality theft, the U.S. attorney’s bureau for the Central District of California announced.

In 2017, Spina bought a Patriots’ Super Bowl title ringing from a Patriots subordinate who past near the team. Prosecutors said Spina paid the subordinate — identified lone arsenic T.J. — with astatine slightest 1 atrocious cheque and sold the ringing for $63,000 to a Southern California broker of title rings.

“When Spina obtained the subordinate ring, helium besides received the accusation that allowed the erstwhile subordinate to acquisition Super Bowl rings for household and friends that are somewhat smaller than the subordinate rings,” the U.S. attorney’s bureau connection said.

Spina posed arsenic the subordinate and ordered 3 rings with “Brady” engraved connected them, claiming they were gifts for Brady’s baby, prosecutors said.

“The rings were astatine nary clip authorized by Tom Brady,” according to the transgression complaint.

Spina past sold them successful November 2017 to an auction location for $100,000 — overmuch much than he’d paid for them, prosecutors said. At a 2018 auction, 1 ringing sold for much than $337,000.

Spina has a national tribunal quality successful Los Angels adjacent month. In summation to pleading guilty, Spina agreed to repay the erstwhile Patriots subordinate who sold him the archetypal ring.