SPORTS
February 8, 1991 | From Staff and Wire Reports
Paul Hammack, who promoted a "Baseball Legends" show in Glendale in September and bounced checks to Mickey Mantle, Brooks Robinson and Bill Russell, was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud. Hammack, who used the alias Ernest Dent, still faces 20 federal charges stemming from complaints about the card show. Police say Hammack, 43, stole more than $200,000 in memorabilia and cheated celebrities he had hired to sign autographs.
NEWS
February 7, 1991 | PENELOPE McMILLAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A judge threw out a more lenient plea bargain Wednesday and sentenced Paul Hammack, a promoter accused of bilking celebrities and businessmen at a Pasadena baseball memorabilia show last September, to eight years in prison on an unrelated fraud charge from Texas. U.S. District Court Judge William D. Keller in Los Angeles rejected an agreement that would have allowed Hammack to serve 366 days in jail and pay back $67,500 to David Lee of Laredo, Tex.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 2, 1991 | PENELOPE McMILLAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has filed 20 felony charges of grand theft, fraud, and writing bad checks against Paul Howard Hammack, alias Ernest Dent, for allegedly bilking sports fans and celebrities such as Mickey Mantle and Don Drysdale at a Pasadena sports memorabilia show in September.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 3, 1990 | PENELOPE MC MILLAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The promoter accused of bilking businesses and such sports celebrities as Mickey Mantle and Don Drysdale at a recent Pasadena memorabilia show appeared before a U.S. magistrate in Los Angeles on Tuesday for a bail hearing on an unrelated fraud charge in Texas.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 29, 1990 | PENELOPE McMILLAN and MARYANN HUDSON, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
The sports memorabilia promoter who has been accused of bilking celebrities and businessmen of more than $100,000 at a recent Pasadena show was arrested Friday night on an unrelated fugitive warrant for fraud. A man Pasadena police identified as Paul Hammack who, under the name of Ernest E. Dent, staged the controversial "Baseball Legends" card and collectibles show, was arrested at his rented Glendale townhouse on a 5-year-old Texas charge of defrauding a Laredo man of about $70,000.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 27, 1990 | PENELOPE McMILLAN and MARYANN HUDSON, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
One of the organizers of a recent Pasadena sports memorabilia show that led to allegations that sports celebrities and small businesses were bilked of more than $100,000 said Wednesday that he was not involved in any wrongdoing and did not know the whereabouts of the show's principal promoter, Ernest Dent. West Virginia officials, meanwhile, said Dent was involved in a failed business venture that was accused of misusing federal and state job training funds in that state.