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Forging Favre's name gets Green Bay man jail time

November 3, 2006 By WRN Contributor

A Green Bay man was sentenced to six months in the Brown County Jail on Thursday for selling forged Brett Favre memorabilia.

Michael Van Lanen, who owns All Sports Marketing, sold as many as 94 bogus prints between December of 2004 and January of 2006, bearing the fraudulent autograph's of the Packers quarterback. 

Van Lanen was ordered to pay back the people he defrauded and send them letters of apology. 

 

Listen/Download – Brett Favre expects fraud to continue. :15

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