If You’re Going to Forge a Signature, Do a Better Job than This

From the Courant’s Amanda Falcone comes another strange development at the Institute for International Sport, run by West Hartford resident Dan Doyle. Today comes word of an apparent forgery on a 2009 annual report form filed with the Rhode Island Secretary of State’s office.

The report for the Institute was purportedly signed by Alan Hassenfeld, who is listed on the form as chairman of the Institute. Hassenfeld, former CEO of the Hasbro toy company, was a long-time benefactor of the Institute’s work. But he says he was never chairman of the Institute — or even a member of the board — and that the signature on the form is not his.

Here’s the signature on the suspect form:

And here’s Hassenfeld’s signature as it appears on an annual report filed the same year by the Hassenfeld Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, for which he serves as vice president:

Who signed the Institute’s form? That’s not clear. Falcone has reached out to Doyle,  but as this post goes up, she hasn’t gotten a response.