Minnesota coin dealer gets 30 months for fraud

https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/skog-gets-30-months-for-selling-counterfeit-coins

 

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2 1/2 yrs (30 mos.)? Have to wonder what the feds are thinking when the max would have been 20 yrs? The Fed GJ returned 6 indictments but they let him plea to just 2????? This isn't something to take lightly...& he's been at this since at least 2006 (so he's been at it since at least age 55, & you know he didn't just start at that age). So, he'll be out at 73 & back to his old tricks!...people like this don't change.

 

Dirtbag. Next level trolling, can't hunt down a cool coin , buy some cheap knockoffs and swindle the diehards who don't mind spending hard earned dough. Punishment should include a weekly session of beatings with twelve rolls of quarters in a soiled tube sock.

 

There's not much stopping him from continuing the dirt-baggery from behind bars, and he'll only do a fraction of those 30 months.

 

Okay, he'll spend 30 months behind bars and that's a long time for him to figure out what not to do when he gets out. He'll be a repeat offender.

 

You guys all seem to be biased. I think we can agree there are MUCH worse crimes than fraud. Prison time is a severe punishment one is not going to forget.

 

We are! Against crime! Look at this guts history! 30 mos. is a slap on the wrist! Yes, there are degrees of crime & this is a higher degree!

 

This guy made his living being a fraud and he stole money from many an innocent person. I wonder if you would feel different if you were one of his victims.

 

One of the bigger questions is why does the government allow the importing of the fake PCGs holders. There is so much bad stuff imported into the country that the government just turns a blind eye to.

 

To us, 30 months seems like a really light sentence for this habitually repeat offender. To the Feds, it’s just the result of a negotiation.

 

I think that he will be back on the street with in 14 months for good behavior. How is someone like this going to pay back his victims , that's a joke. He should be made to work it off for everyone he screwed around. That way you could have him do all those dirty jobs while you sat on a lawn chair with a beer and watched him do your work . I know this sounds far fetched but I really do not see this guy paying anyone back as ordered by the courts. Now if he has a house and property a person could seize this and put it up for sale . He will continue under another name , and refine his ways so he is not caught this time. How many more people are passing off the odd coin under the same circumstances as he was. Maybe 1 or 2 coins a year to people who just put them away for their kids or grandkids .

 

I bet there were a lot more then 12 victims for the time period he was doing this. Maybe and hopefully more will come out of the woodwork and have more charges pressed against him and they will keep this person for a long period of time. I do not know if he can be charged again for the same crime I think that is called double jeopardy or is this just for murder cases? Dillan

 

He can be charged again for any new cases, but they won't do it. The government doesn't care if some coin collectors get screwed. He probably only got prosecuted because PCGS was involved.

 

Seems light for the degree of fraud perpetrated. Especially as a repeat offender. People routinely do more for minor drug possession I think 6-8 years would have been more in line

 

Fraud, cheating, and swindling penalties are harshly handed out in Nevada. You get double digit sentences for trying to cheat a slot or dealer....nothing worse than than a slime ball cheating you out of hard earned pay.

 

Are you sure? Read the news, there’s much worse than fraud. Earlier today a man pushed an 8-year old boy in front of an arriving train in my city. The boy is dead.

 

Exactly what I thought, too.

 

The “Dirt Bag”, met him at a coin show in Detroit Lakes, Mn
All one really need know to have avoided this dirt bag and not do (Any) so called business with him was to meet him, face to face! Unfortunately,
far to many “Honest” individuals were duped by this jerk via mail etc.
My condolences to all those who lost out to this scum-bag!!!
May he drop the Bar of “Soap” in prison!!!

 

That man is apparently from Eritrea, so he might be extradited at some point. But agreed, murder is a crime of a different "quality". Then again, if you compare the per capita incarceration rates of various countries, there are considerable differences. I don't have a "recipe" here either ...

Christian

 

One reason there is so much white collar crime, in my humble opinion, is the penalties are often lighter than for breaking into someone’s house to swipe the TV.