Ex eBay Tells All in New Book

Santa Cruz Sentinel 

On the day that Ken Walton’s book “Fake: Forgery, Lies & eBay” was released — April 25 — there was a knock on his door.

The man at the door was dressed in a suit and tie. When Walton opened the door, he expected to hear the opening spiel of a Jehovah’s Witness.

Instead, the man flipped a badge and said he was a special agent.

That’s when Walton — who thought he’d moved past the years-long shame of living as a con artist — descended once again into paranoia.

Lucky for him, the agent was just returning the laptop they’d borrowed so long ago when building a case against him.

Except, really, it had nothing to do with luck.

The mentor

“Fetterman,” the Army buddy who introduced Walton to eBay, was always scamming something, always looking for a shortcut, always avoiding responsibility.