LAKE STEVENS — Graded at an 8, or near-mint, the Fleer 1986 Michael Jordan rookie card had an estimated value of perhaps $7,000.
As a 10, or a virtually perfect gem, Anthony Curcio and Iosif “Joe” Bondarchuk sold it for $171,700 — a few thousand dollars under the estimated market rate — to an online market based in Manhattan in May 2022, according to new federal charges against the two men with Snohomish County roots.
Prosecutors alleged it was part of $2 million in fraud, using counterfeit Pokémon and rarified sports cards, and the latest stranger-than-fiction scheme from Curcio. The former star athlete at Monroe High School was convicted of an elaborate armored truck heist in 2009, where he initially made…
