Man gets prison for posing as Tom Brady teammate to try and sell OC broker Super Bowl rings
A New Jersey man who posed as a former New England Patriots player so he could try to sell an Orange County broker Super Bowl rings he falsely claimed were gifts to Tom Brady’s family was sentenced on Monday, Aug. 29, to three years in prison.
In 2017, Spina, then 19, bought a Patriots’ Super Bowl championship ring from a former player who had left the team. The rings for that year’s team were adorned with five Lombardi trophies representing the number of championships the team had won at the time and was engraved with “Greatest Comeback Ever,” a reference to the team overcoming a 28-3 deficit in the Super Bowl.
The same Orange County buyer also agreed to buy the three “family-and-friends” championship rings that Spina had ordered. Spina had falsely told the buyer that Brady bought those three rings for three nephews, and that the nephews had agreed to sell them to Spina. According to the memo written by Spina’s attorney, within days of the auction house putting the three rings up for sale, Brady’s representatives contacted the company and notified them that the rings had no connection to Brady.
In February, Spina pleaded guilty in a Santa Ana federal court to felony counts of mail and wire fraud, as well as aggravated identity theft related to the Super Bowl rings fraud.
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