Retired Hasbro CEO testifies in Dan Doyle Trial

Retired Hasbro inc. Chairman and CEO Alan Hassenfeld took the stand Thursday, to testify in the embezzlement trial of Dan Doyle, founder of the Institute for international sport. Hassenfeld helped fund the world scholar athlete games, a program the institute carried out.

In court, the prosecutor pulled up documents that had been apparently signed by Hassenfeld over the years. He says they weren’t signed by him.

"No, I didn’t sign it and its signed wrong too. I never use the word "chair" I’m chairman. And it’s never Hasbro do you see the (toys) in parenthesis. It’s Hasbro Inc," Hassenfeld says.

Doyle was indicted in 2013 on 18 counts including embezzlement. Documents pulled up for the jury, refer to Hassenfeld as Chairman, or President of the institutes board of directors. But he says he never even met the board, let alone served with them.

"were you ever on the board for the institute of international sport?," asked the Prosecutor.

"No I was not," Hassenfeld replied.

Adding, he confronted Doyle about the discrepancies.

"He said to me I will try as soon as possible to do a forensic, to try and figure out how your name was signed."

Hassenfeld says no one got back to him.

He along with another man, promised the institute half a million dollars to help fund a second building that Doyle wanted to construct. The institute also received a 575-thousand dollar grant from the state to build the facility, a grant Hassenfeld knew nothing about. He also testified, when construction was delayed no one told him.

He says he realized there were serious problems when his foundation was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure the 2011 Scholar Athlete games went on.

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