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Lawyer says email shows Eli Manning defrauded memorabilia collectors
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 13, 2017

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A significant piece of evidence has emerged in the longstanding lawsuit pitting sports memorabilia collectors against the Giants and Eli Manning.

An email sent from Manning to the Giants’ equipment manager in 2010 requested “2 helmets that can pass as game used,” according to court documents obtained by the New York Post. That email, according to plaintiffs’ lawyer Brian Brook, shows that Manning was knowingly passing off any old Giants helmets as helmets he actually wore in games.

Manning is accused of working with memorabilia dealer Steiner Sports to sell helmets to fans who thought they were buying authentic game-used gear.

Brook told the Post that the email represents “direct evidence that Manning knowingly gave fraudulent helmets to Steiner for sale to fans.”

The email had not previously been disclosed. Brook accused the Giants of deleting emails that could have reflected badly on the team in this case, but this email came from Manning’s personal account. Brook did credit Manning and his attorneys for disclosing the email.

In a statement, lawyers for the Giants said the email was taken out of context.

The defendants in the case include not only Manning and Steiner Sports but also the Giants, the team’s equipment manager and others.

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Giants claim new Eli Manning email “taken out of context”
Posted by Mike Florio on April 13, 2017

The Giants recently opted not to comment on the pending litigation regarding allegations of fraudulent memorabilia sales. After Thursday’s release of an email that has been characterized as a smoking gun regarding quarterback Eli Manning’s knowledge of and involvement in such a scheme, the Giants are commenting.

“The email, taken out of context, was shared with the media by an unscrupulous memorabilia dealer and his counsel who for years has been seeking to leverage a big payday,” said Karren Kessler, spokesperson for the law firm of McCarter & English, which represents the Giants.

“The email predates any litigation, and there was no legal obligation to store it on the Giants server. Eli Manning is well known for his integrity and this is just the latest misguided attempt to defame his character.”

The reference to the email predating the litigation relates to the contention that the email authored by Manning was deleted, with the implication being that the email was deliberately erased to hide its contents.

Lawyers for the persons who have sued the Giants contend that Manning sent an email requesting “helmets that can pass as game used,” arguing that this is proof of an effort to sell items that were never actually used in a game.
 

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So Eli was supposed to give up his game gear to a company per his contract and he didn't want to, he then asked his equipment manager for some gear to give the company instead. He got caught.

I must be missing something?
 

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Greedy MF's. Multi-millionaires ripping off fans so they might make an extra couple thousand. I haven't liked Eli since the San Diego ordeal, he can go straight to ...
 

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At least Eli didn't destroy the evidence.

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‘Proof’ Eli Manning was in on Giants memorabilia scheme
By Kaja Whitehouse and Bruce Golding

A smoking gun email from Eli Manning proves he quarterbacked a conspiracy to defraud collectors by pawning off phony game-worn gear as the real deal, according to court documents obtained by The Post.

The two-time Super Bowl MVP, who has a contract with memorabilia dealer Steiner Sports, instructed a team manager to get the bogus equipment so it could be sold off as authentic, the papers say.

“2 helmets that can pass as game used. That is it. Eli,” Manning wrote to equipment manager Joe Skiba from a BlackBerry on April 27, 2010, according to the documents.

Less than 20 minutes later, Manning wrote to his marketing agent, Alan Zucker, who requested the helmets, saying: “Should be able to get them for tomorrow.”

The emails were filed Tuesday in New Jersey’s Bergen County Superior Court by three memorabilia collectors who are pressing a civil racketeering suit against the Giants, Manning, Skiba, Steiner and others, including team co-owner and CEO John Mara.

Related court papers allege that the emails prove “Manning was looking to give non-game-used helmets to Steiner to satisfy — fraudulently — his contractual obligation” with Steiner.

The legal filing also alleges that Big Blue failed to produce the Manning-Skiba emails — between the athlete’s old-school AOL account and an official NFL account — even though “they claim to have no document destruction policy.”

Manning turned over the incriminating emails last week, court papers say.

“Since it appears that the Giants failed to preserve any emails between Manning and Joe Skiba, and the Giants are keeping Skiba on the payroll and paying his substantial legal bills, the above email exchange may be the only direct evidence that Manning knowingly gave fraudulent helmets to Steiner for sale to fans,” court papers say.

On Thursday, plaintiffs’ lawyer Brian Brook said “it appears to be the case that someone at the Giants organization deleted” those emails, as well as another, previously disclosed 2008 exchange.

In that exchange, Skiba allegedly admitted to plaintiff Eric Inselberg that Manning had asked him to create “BS” versions of a game-used helmet and jersey because Manning “didnt want to give up the real stuff.”

“The first we have since Eric saved it on his AOL account and the second we have since Eli apparently saved it on his AOL account,” Brook said.

“I do give Eli and his lawyers credit for not destroying evidence.”

The suit — set for trial Sept. 25 — was initially filed in 2014 by Inselberg, who in 2011 was among six memorabilia dealers charged by the feds in Chicago with selling fake game-used jerseys.

The other defendants all pleaded guilty, but Inselberg won dismissal of the indictment against him by arguing that witnesses — including Skiba and two other Giants employees — lied to the grand jury to cover up their own fake-memorabilia sales.

Inselberg’s co-plaintiffs include diehard Giants fan Michael Jakab, who shelled out $4,300 for a helmet purportedly worn by Manning during the team’s 2007 Super Bowl season — but which he claims is really just a “$4,000 paperweight.”

The final plaintiff is Sean Godown, a US Navy senior chief petty officer and Giants fan who sold the helmet to Jakab.

Court papers say Godown began collecting game-used memorabilia between tours of duty and bought the helmet for $5,000 on eBay, but decided to sell it at a loss sold it at loss “after he began to question its authenticity.

In a statement, lawyers for the Giants said: “The email, taken out of context, was shared with the media by an unscrupulous memorabilia dealer and his counsel who for years has been seeking to leverage a big payday.”

“The email predates any litigation, and there was no legal obligation to store it on the Giants server,” the statement added.

“Eli Manning is well known for his integrity and this is just the latest misguided attempt to defame his character. “

Steiner didn’t respond to requests for comment.
 

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So how was it out of context? His lawyers never say. It seems pretty clear. He wanted gear that would appear to have been used in games in order to make money. And this is so what, poor eli, after winning a suoerbowl, can make a few more dollars cheating fans? That whole manning family can go fuck off.
 

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Fuck me. He's made over $100m and he's stealing money off people to make a few thousand dollars? People never stop amazing me with their greed.

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This is nuts to me. I always looked at the Mannings as a family with high moral fiber. If true, it would change my outlook on Eli for sure. He would be fucking over fans. That's not okay
 

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Until that whole fiasco with Peyton and that female trainer at Tennessee, I thought highly of the entire clan.
 

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Chris Christie rips Giants, Eli Manning over fake memorabilia lawsuit
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 14, 2017

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Whether the Giants and Eli Manning defrauded memorabilia collectors will be determined in a court of law. But the governor of the state the Giants play in thinks they did it.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ripped Manning and the Giants today on WFAN, calling Manning a “liar” after an email surfaced that seemed to suggest Manning asked the Giants’ equipment manager for two helmets that could be passed off as game-worn, even though they weren’t.

He got caught,” Christie said of Manning, via NJ.com.

Christie compared Eli unfavorably to his big brother.

“Could you ever imagine Peyton being involved in this?” Christie asked. “No, definitely not. Peyton’s smarter.”

Christie, a former prosecutor, said he doesn’t think Manning will face criminal charges. But he does think Manning and the Giants need to be ready to lose the civil lawsuit that is scheduled to begin in September.

“The Giants participated in this as well, so John Mara’s going to have to open the checkbook,” Christie said. “Now there’s all kinds of ramifications for the Giants as a brand. Are they a lying cheating franchise?”

Christie has only nine months remaining in his second and final term as governor. He is reportedly considering going into sports talk radio after his political career ends, and he has already figured out how to make comments that turn into headlines.
 

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This is nuts to me. I always looked at the Mannings as a family with high moral fiber. If true, it would change my outlook on Eli for sure. He would be freaking over fans. That's not okay

I won't go into it, but Archie Manning's not all that great, either. If Peyton's on the up and up, then he's the only one...
 

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Greedy MF's. Multi-millionaires ripping off fans so they might make an extra couple thousand. I haven't liked Eli since the San Diego ordeal, he can go straight to ...
That whole family are sh** bags.
Eli gets a "forever" pass from me because his Giants beat the Cheatriots twice in the Super Bowl. But, please, keep his narcissistic, pizza slinging, whore, giant headed freak of a brother away from the Rams.
 

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