Scott Spina plead guilty to five felony counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Scott Spina, 25, of Roseland, New Jersey, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David Carter in Santa Ana, California, after pleading guilty in February to five felony counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Vancouver Sun, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Prosecutors said Spina defrauded the player in 2017 by purchasing his Super Bowl LI championship ring, using at least one check that bounced, and later sold it to a southern California broker for $63,000. Court papers said Spina, posing as the player, then ordered three rings engraved with the name “Brady” from the memorabilia company Jostens, claiming they were gifts for Brady’s baby.Article content
Spina sold those rings in November 2017 to an auction house for $100,000, about three times what he paid. One was auctioned for $337,219 three months later, the papers show.Lawyers for Spina did not immediately respond to requests for comment..Spina had faced a mandatory two-year term for identity theft alone, and his lawyers had said two years plus one day covering all charges would be “more than sufficient.
The lawyers said Spina is the manager of his fiancee’s Eyelash salon business in New Jersey, and has been a “model of rehabilitation” since being released from prison in 2020, where he was serving a 35-month term for an unrelated wire fraud.