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Con Man Able to Support Himself for Two Years Running Fake Charity Golf Tournaments

John Moyers mug shotThe greatest criminal in Texas history has finally been caught!   Okay, maybe the greatest fake golf tournament criminal in Texas history, but still, this guy was the best at what he did. . . even though it was really, really wrong.

Meet John Mark Moyers (mug shot, right) who has been traveling Arkansas and Texas for the past two years (yes, two years!) running fake golf tournaments and charity food drives. His basic scam: reserve a golf course for a tournament (for a good cause, naturally) then start collecting entry fees, prizes, gift cards and other donations from local businesses–all while living it up at a local hotel. Then, just before the tournament he would skip town and run the same scam somewhere else. The fact that he was able to support himself for two years is amazing and disgusting at the same time. What he did meant money that probably would have gone to a reputable charity did not, and folks who might otherwise be very open to an event like this now have a bitter taste in their mouths. Bad man!

Details from the Dallas Morning News:

John Mark Moyers, 50, was taken into custody March 24, accused of felony theft over accusations that he scammed local businesses out of thousands for a fake golf tournament in Weatherford. He remains held on the Parker County jail in lieu $7,500 bail.  Authorities believe Moyers perpetrated nearly one dozen similar scams in Texas and Arkansas over the last two years, raking in as much as $70,000, according to a news release outlining Moyers’ alleged misdeeds.

Police say they discovered the con job when a victim of a scam in Little Rock, told the Weatherford golf course about Moyers. In his Weatherford hotel room, authorities found receipt books, showing he’d collected more than $5,000 from the fake Weatherford tournament, authorities said.  Police say Moyers would tell the golf courses that he planned to reserve the course for a tournament. He’d then promote the event, but would not pay the deposit, police said.

As part of the ruse, he collected entry fees, donations, gift cards, door prizes and money from area businesses before skipping town, police said.  Moyers told investigators he used the ill-gotten profits to support himself for more than two years while living in hotels.

Michigan Man Arrested for Baseball Camp Scam

Wow! The cops nabbed this guy not far from the BadJocks Bunker here in Michigan where “the magic happens.” And, by “magic” we mean our attempts at slight-of-hand tricks and escaping from handcuffs, and stuff like that. It certainly doesn’t refer to this site.

Anyway, brave Michigan cops apprehended one Jason Anderson who apparently is wanted in three states for promising to conduct baseball camps and/or create a traveling baseball team for young all-stars, collecting money from mom and dad and then–allegedly skipping down. Boo, hiss!

But Anderson’s arrest record doesn’t end there: he also has some check fraud charges against him in Michigan and Florida and was also driving on a suspended license which was pulled for reportedly driving while intoxicated.

Yeah, we want this guy coaching our kids.

Deputies investigating a parked 2010 Dodge Charger arrested Jason A. Anderson, 35, of Clarklake, Mich., on McCain Road in Brighton about 12:10 a.m., according to a sheriff’s office statement.  In the Rapid City, S.D., area, Anderson is wanted for fraud and grand theft by deception.

Rapid City police Capt. Deb Cady said Anderson appeared to have four victims in the area after collecting payment from parents for services not rendered to young baseball players.  “He would tell parents of kids who played baseball he would have a traveling team and they would attend various camps and tournaments,” Cady said.

Anderson is also wanted for failure to appear on a no-account check charge in Michigan, had his Michigan driver’s license suspended for driving while intoxicated, and is wanted in Florida on 11 counts of using forged documents or checks.

Tipton County deputies capture accused scammer wanted in three states (Commerical Appeal)

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Man Who Donated $1.7 Million to Yale Baseball Program Charged With Fraud – John D. Mazzuto

Mug Shot of John David Mazzuto

Dear Yale:

Enclosed is a check for $1.7 million which I would like you to put toward improving the school’s baseball program which I played on more than 40 years ago. Just make sure you don’t cash it until I have time to get to the bank and make a deposit.

You’re Welcome
Big Time Fraudster

The news release called John D. Mazzuto one of the “greatest supporters” of the Yale University baseball team. Mr. Mazzuto, a 1970

Yale graduate who played shortstop for the team, had donated to the baseball program about $1.5 million worth of shares in a company he owned. The university rewarded him by naming a new practice facility after him and his wife — the John and

Theresa Mazzuto Field — and by adding his family name to the baseball coach’s official title: the Mazzuto Family Head Coach of Baseball.

“John has bestowed upon Yale baseball an incredible gift,” John Stuper, the baseball coach at Yale, said in the release, dated April 17, 2009. “His support of our program has been absolutely phenomenal.” Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday that Mr. Mazzuto’s support of his alma mater was illegal. Mr. Mazzuto, 61, was indicted on charges of fraudulently inflating the value of a company he owned to mislead investors into buying worthless shares. He gave shares of the company, Industrial Enterprises of America, to family and friends and to companies he controlled, and they sold them on the open market, giving some of the profits to Industrial Enterprises, prosecutors said.

Source – NY Times