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cheardjr
01-19-2009, 02:40 PM
Owner of Albanese Sports Gallery in Belvidere accused of selling phony memorabilia

by Tom Quigley Thursday January 15, 2009, 9:07 AM


A Belvidere business owner has been sued for allegedly selling phony memorabilia to two customers, according to paperwork filed this month.
Joseph Albanese, 84, operates the Albanese Sports Gallery (http://www.belviderenj.com/sections/buspf-albanese.html) at Mill and Greenwich streets. Products in the store include baseball cards, model trains and a variety of other collectibles.
Rockaway, N.J., resident Joseph Bell, an attorney whose clients include Warren County and the Pollution Control Financing Authority of Warren County, and Succasunna, N.J., resident Craig Heard, a Hackettstown-based advertising specialist, filed suit against Albanese on Jan. 7.
The suit claims Bell bought memorabilia over the past 10 years that would, if authentic, be worth $70,000. But when he took the items in November to a firm that authenticates collectibles, he was told they were phony.
Heard purchased sports memorabilia from Albanese that, if authentic, would be worth $40,000. He made the purchases between December 2001 and December 2007, according to the lawsuit.
Albanese said he purchased the items from legitimate companies and individuals and that he would never purposely sell bogus collectibles.
Read more about the lawsuit in Friday's edition of The Express-Times. (http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/warren-county/?archive)

eisenreich8
01-19-2009, 09:38 PM
At 84 years of age, he should be bargaining with his maker.........