The show stars Judith Sheindlin, a former New York prosecutor and family court judge who now decides disputes as an arbitrator in a mock-up courtroom. One of the disputes hosted last week by the series included Dan Haahr and defendant Marlon Koland.

After Haahr failed to successfully purchase a truck on eBay, he accused Koland of theft by claiming he was responsible because the bank account he deposited cash into, was Kolands.

Koland defended that he "was scammed" as well and that they were both victims of an elaborate MIM (man in the middle) scheme.

So lets just think about all of that for a second. This guy decides the best option to buy a new car is to hop on eBay, locate an unrealistic deal in another state mind you, and then continues to take an untraceable amount of cash to Bank of America and blindly deposit the funds into some guys account who he doesn't know, has never met, and could not verify as the owner. All information obtained from a stranger on the internet and its reliable source impeccable trust.

Gee ... I can't imagine how anything could have possibly gone wrong.

Toss bitcoin and MIM terminology into the mix with Judge Judy's confusion and there is little doubt why Sheindlin got this one out of the way as quickly as possible. She wanted to return to this planet.

We sat down with Marlon Koland on Friday the 13th (the day after the episode aired) to get his side of the story. After seeing the episode and having knowledge of these types of MIM scams we suspected the story depicted on Judge Judy was not completely accurate.



