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Key Trump booster has a history as a con man
Stan's Sports Memorabilia was shut down in a 1999 FBI raid for selling more than two million dollars of baseball bats, balls and photographs with fake autographs.
Veterans for Trump chief Stan Fitzgerald is a frequent visitor to Mar-a-Lago. He claims to have met with the former president 12 times, and his social media feeds are filled with pictures of the two men grinning together.
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But Fitzgerald has a secret history. For five years he ran Stan's Sports Memorabilia, one of the biggest names in the business, until it was shut down in a 1999 FBI raid for selling more than two million dollars of baseball bats, balls and photographs carrying faked autographs.
Fitzgerald, his wife and his mother were even accused of ordering up forgeries of athletes when they died, such as baseball star Mickey Mantle, knowing the value would rocket.
He was eventually sentenced to eight months in prison after striking a deal with prosecutors.
The case has resurfaced as part of a bitter dispute between Fitzgerald and another Republican activist, Angie Wong, after they fell out about the running of a network of political action committee and lobbying companies.
She told DailyMail.com Fitzgerald hid his criminal past and was less than honest about the way he was running the group, and made a formal complaint to regulators that he set up look-alike for-profit groups designed to fraudulently attract donations. He in turn is suing her for defamation after she went public with her claims.
