So like I said a month or so ago, Corino stepped out of character and "blasted" me with his o so devistating mic work..... "I DON'T NEED YOUR MONEY"..... LMMFAO, are you sure about that, Steve?
The following is from the Pottstown Mercury newspaper less then 6 months after "Mr." Corino told me that he "didn't need my money". Enjoy
NORRISTOWN -- A former Trappe professional wrestling champ accused of forging the name of an ex-girlfriend on a check and using her credit cards without her authorization has pleaded not guilty to forgery and fraud-related charges.
"It is my choice to enter a plea of not guilty and to waive my right to appear in court for a formal arraignment on the charges against me," Steven Eugene Corino wrote in a document filed this week in Montgomery County Court.
Corino, 30, of Elio Circle, had been scheduled to appear in court Sept. 26 for a formal arraignment on a charge of forgery and multiple counts of access device fraud. By waiving that formal reading by a judge of the charges against him, Corino will not have to appear in court at that time and his case will now be listed for pretrial proceedings.
The arraignment document signed by Corino marks the first opportunity Corino had to enter a plea to the charges.
Corino, who is represented by lawyer Michael Yanoff of Lansdale, remains free on 10 percent of $10,000 bail while awaiting his next court appearance. Yanoff was unavailable for comment Friday.
Corino, who calls himself the "King of Old School," faces up to a maximum of 117 years in prison if convicted of all the charges.
Court documents filed by state police at Skippack indicate Corino’s ex-girlfriend, Cheryl Kennard, contacted police in April and alleged Corino fraudulently used her credit card between June and December of 2001. Kennard, now of Los Angeles, Calif., told authorities that Corino accessed her personal files without her knowledge or consent and removed several credit cards and account information while the two shared a home in the 1100 block of Mensch Road in Skippack, according to the criminal complaint.
Corino ran up charges totaling $10,000, state police Trooper Colleen J. Young alleged.
The criminal complaint alleged Corino also removed a blank check attached to Kennard’s credit card statement and wrote a check for $2,100 to himself by forging Kennard’s name on the check. Corino’s name was not on the account and he did not have permission from Kennard to cash the check, police alleged.
"Kennard confronted Corino about the check and he told her that he was sorry and that he had needed the money," Trooper Young wrote in the criminal complaint.
According to the arrest affidavit, Corino allegedly removed another credit card from Kennard’s personal files and used it to make 23 purchases between September 2001 and December 2001. Eleven of the purchases were under $50, nine were between $50 and $500 and three of the purchases were more than $500, the criminal complaint alleged.
Court documents do not indicate what Corino purchased during the alleged transactions.
Two of the charges, one for $1,700 and another for $1,000, occurred when Corino used the credit card machine at his business "so it would appear that purchases were made from his company," the criminal complaint alleged.
"While Kennard was in the process of making moving arrangements and traveling back and forth to California, Kennard continued to discover charges that Corino made to two additional credit cards...," Young wrote in the criminal complaint, alleging those three purchases ranged between $228 and $1,300.
Kennard only learned about the alleged fraudulent credit card purchases when she received statements and bills from the credit card companies, according to court documents.
Corino was the world heavyweight champ for the Extreme Championship Wrestling league in 2000, when he defended the title 11 times in one month.
During an interview with The Mercury in December 2000, the 1992 Perkiomen Valley High School graduate spoke optimistically about his career and his three-year contract with the ECW. At the time, Corino said he lived a clean life, except for drinking too much coffee.
"I don’t live high on the hog," Corino said during the interview. "I keep putting money away."
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PERSONAL NOTE- "I keep putting money away".... Yeah, but who's money is it?
Subject: Mr. Wrestling 3? 
Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:30 pm
