Steve Comisar

Steven Robert Comisar (born December 30, 1961) is an American criminal and book author.

As a young man he sold a "solar powered clothes dryer" in national magazines for $49.95.

[6] In 1999, Comisar was arrested for swindling investors in a fake television quiz show involving Joe Namath.

Comisar used the working name Brett Champion during the period when he said he had retired from his criminal activity and posed as a fraud prevention expert and consultant, using it on Dateline NBC,[1][7] The View, Sally Leeza Crook & Chase and in various other television appearances, and when he wrote the book America's Guide to Fraud Prevention.

[7][8][9] Comisar is now prohibited from using this alias or from referring to himself as a consumer fraud expert.