Brian said Lenny 's friend and former bookkeeper Dorothy Van Kalsbeek reached out to relatives in an email that detailed the arrest and his search for a lawyer.
"I wish I could post bail. I know the real Lenny from years ago is still in there somewhere. But the family breakup was bad," Brian said. "We'll be there to help afterwards - when he gets out. I know he could go coach somewhere."
He and younger brother Kevin have been estranged from Lenny since the former All Star player sold his car-wash business and allegedly reneged on money he owed them.
The now broke ex-baller was arrested at his Encino, Calif., residence Thursday for allegedly buying cars with fraudulent paperwork, Los Angeles police said.
In a separate case filed a day earlier, federal prosecutors accused him of embezzling $400,000 from his bankrupt estate, which includes an $18.5 million mansion purchased from hockey star Wayne Gretzky.
Dykstra, 48, illegally sold a "truckload" of furnishings - including chandeliers, mirrors, a grandfather clock and fireplace screens - from the Gretzky house shortly after filing for bankruptcy in 2009, federal investigators claim.
Once a highflying stock picker and vanity magazine mogul, the now-divorced Dykstra spent the weekend in county jail and moved to a Van Nuys courthouse Monday to get picked up by the FBI, sources said.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney said the feds will get first crack in a courtroom.
"In light of the federal charges filed against Mr. Dykstra, LAPD investigators and prosecutors will have additional time to complete a complex and multifaceted investigation" of the grand theft auto case, a DA spokeswoman said.
Dykstra, now more than $30 million in debt, had to sell his 1986 New York Mets World Series ring for $56,762 in 2009 to help cover his losses.
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