Albert Scaglione has from the beginning tried to distance Park West Gallery from another company he (and Park West) controls known as Plymouth Auctioneering Services, Ltd. Scaglione claims that Plymouth Auctioneering is a separate and distinct offshore entity in the Turks & Caicos Islands where it is also reported that Albert Scaglione owns a mansion or a villa. Scaglione claims that Plymouth Auctioneering is the entity that supplies Park West Gallery with all of its auctioneers (or salesmen) for the cruise ships Park West Gallery serves.

Although Albert Scaglione denies it, Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering are about as separate and distinct as Siamese twins. It is a fact that Park West Gallery (or Keaton, Inc. dba Park West at Sea) leases employees through the sham or front organization, Plymouth Auctioneering (as we will illustrate in further detail below).

What is a "Sham or a Front Organization" and what does it mean?

First, it is important to define what a sham or front organization is. Wikipedia defines, a front organization as, any entity [like Plymouth Auctioneering] set up by and controlled by another organization [like Park West Gallery or Keaton, Inc.], such as organized crime groups, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations. Front organizations can act for the parent group without the actions being attributed to the parent group. Many organized crime operations have substantial legitimate businesses, such as licensed gambling houses, [art galleries], building construction companies, trash hauling services, or dock loading enterprises. These front companies enable these criminal organizations to launder their income from illegal activities. Front companies also provide plausible cover for illegal activities such as [racketeering], drug trafficking, smuggling, and prostitution.

In addition to a "sham" or "front" organization, Plymouth Auctioneering can also be considered an "alter ego" of Albert Scaglione. The Free Dictionary defines "alter ego" as a corporation, organization or other entity set up to provide a legal shield for the person actually controlling the operation. In the case of corporations, proving one is an alter ego is one way of "piercing the corporate veil." In a lawsuit complaint, it might be stated (pleaded) that "the Hotshot Corporation [Plymouth Auctioneering] was the alter ego of [Albert Scaglione] Joseph Snakeoil."

The way a company sets up its corporate structure (or structures) speaks volumes about its business practices and its intents and purposes and can often be an indicator of RICO. Essentially, Park West Gallery through its front organization, Plymouth Auctioneering, is in the business of “labor leasing.” Most people may not realize it, but there is such a thing as “labor racketeering and work place fraud” another significant area of concern as it relates to Park West Gallery and its bottomless pit of schemes and bad business practices. For example, one of the most significant investigations by the Office of the Inspector General (United States Department of Labor) resulted in the sentencing of two officials of the American Maritime Officer’s Association union to 78 and 15 months of imprisonment. By dominating and controlling the union operations and its employee benefit plans, they used the union as a racketeering enterprise to embezzle money and defraud its members. (See, Volume 57, Semi-Annual Report to Congress, United States Department of Labor, 2007-2008). In the case of Park West Gallery, it is more than evident that Park West uses its sham organization Plymouth Auctioneering as a shield of liability and when it is convenient for them to do so and especially when trying to escape claims for the misrepresented and fraudulent sale of artwork.

Fine Art Registry® has communicated with many of the so-called auctioneers and ex-auctioneers working for Park West Gallery. Not one of them has ever distinguished between working for Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering. That's because the auctioneers (or salesmen) are all working for the entity "Park West Gallery" in every sense of the word and "Plymouth Auctioneering" merely operates as a "sham" or "front" for Park West Gallery. Park West auctioneers aren't compensated with payroll or commission checks. Auctioneer compensation is always made by wired funds (and it has been reported via Deutcsh Bank in the Turks & Caicos). But according to Park West Gallery insiders, all "commissions" paid to auctioneers are calculated by Southfield, Michigan Park West Gallery employee, Rhonda Foreman, who has reportedly worked for Park West Gallery for at least the last three to four years.

In every email communication Fine Art Registry has received from Park West Gallery auctioneers, they preface their correspondence or phone calls with the phrase: "I work for" or "have worked for 'Park West Gallery'...." Fine Art Registry has yet to witness in our nearly three years of investigation even one individual when contacting us, making reference to working for, or having worked for, "Plymouth Auctioneering" - never once - a certain red flag which led Fine Art Registry to dig a bit deeper into this shady business structure.

The Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering Cover Up

It's interesting to note what we have discovered (and documented) about the relationship between Park West Gallery (Albert Scaglione), and Plymouth Auctioneering.

Park West Gallery purchased the web domain name for Plymouth Auctioneering and we believe and have evidence that Park West Gallery either controlled or supervised the building of the very recent Plymouth Auctioneering web site.

All auctioneer candidates are sent to the Southfield, Michigan Gallery (or to PWG Florida, Inc. dba Fine Art Sales, Inc. at the Miami Lakes facility in Florida) for sales training.

In our nearly three year investigation of Park West Gallery and its deceptive and unfair trade practices, we have yet to find a single auctioneer (ex-auctioneer or otherwise) who has had any contact whatsoever with Plymouth Auctioneering or with any owner or principals of Plymouth Auctioneering. All contact with auctioneer candidates or recruits has been through Park West Gallery personnel, such as Jack Sweetman, via cell phone, email, or video conferencing. VIP land auctions and other recruits are also interviewed in person in major cities across the U.S., like Chicago, Illinois, which we will elaborate on later in this article.

Albert Scaglione, Morris Shapiro, and Albert Molina (Molina is in charge of framing and distribution at the Miami Lakes, Florida Inc. facility) have stated that they have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA who the principals of Plymouth Auctioneering are, or what the corporate structure of Plymouth Auctioneering is. Really? Maybe Ira Shore might know. But we'll get to Shore's involvement later in this article.

Soon after Scaglione had stated that he knew nothing of the inner workings of Plymouth Auctioneering or who ran the organization, a spokesman for Fleishman Hillard (Park West Gallery and Scaglione's spin doctor and Public Relations company) went on record and made a liar out of Scaglione when he [the Fleishman Hillard spokesman] was quoted in a Detroit Crain's Business news article in November 2009, stating that Plymouth Auctioneering was owned by a consortium of investors in the UK (Scotland and Britain). The lies Scaglione and Park West Gallery forward to cover their tracks never seem to cease. It's almost comical how these guys trip over each other's lying tongues. In the legal arena we call this perjury. Be sure to read Litigation Update No. 5, the section titled, "Park West Gallery and Scaglione Dishonest About Their Ties to Plymouth Auctioneering" for more on how Scaglione was caught red-handed trying to cover up his lies with respect to the connection between Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering.

Truth be told, in 2002, Scaglione knew exactly who "the" principal (or so we are to believe) of Plymouth Auctioneering was. That's because he or Park West Gallery (Park West at Sea/Keaton, Inc.) is and always has been fully involved with Plymouth Auctioneering, and in reality, they are one in the same, and have been since at least 2002. Of course, Fine Art Registry knew that Scaglione was not telling the truth in November 2009, as we had already investigated the ties between Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering long ago, when we first started investigating cruise ship art auctions. But true to form, in Albert Scaglione's unending zeal and thirst for bludgeoning individuals and others with threatened or protracted litigation in order to silence claimants and critics, or to bend them to his will, he stupidly and absentmindedly forgets that he and his lawyers leave behind a wake of witnesses and court filings - yes, a documented paper trail that betray him.

Historical Information and other Records on Plymouth Auctioneering

There is yet another pawn in this whole sordid mess. Albert Scaglione and Park West Gallery have probably wondered why we have never mentioned one of the major players in this beast of a fraud being perpetrated by Park West Gallery and the cruise lines - an individual by the name of Ira Shore, President of Fine Art Management Corporation, based in Camarillo, California. Ira Shore has brokered (and may still be doing so today) many contracts for Park West Gallery which reportedly include all of the sports celebrities and the Disney Destino art prints Park West Gallery sells, including the sale of the bankrupt stock of artwork once owned by Circle Fine Art. Fine Art Registry believes that much of the Circle Fine Art stock which was appraised by the infamous, Caroline Ashleigh, who also happens to be in the pocket of Park West Gallery, or was, up until the publication of our article on the Park West Gallery $40 Million Dollar Donation. It's interesting to note, that sometime after June 13, 2008, and since our article on the Park West $40 Million Dollar donation, Ashleigh changed her web site to remove the following reference about her work experience: "She serves as art appraiser and consultant to the world's largest art gallery." There is only one company that is arrogant enough to make the claim that it is the "world's largest art gallery" and that's Park West Gallery. It has been reported to us through a reliable inside source that Caroline Ashleigh used a simple template to appraise the Circle Fine Art inventory and that it [the Circle Fine Art appraisal] was a complete sham. She was paid handsomely by Park West Gallery to perform the appraisal, but that is a story for another day. Back to Ira Shore and his involvement with Park West Gallery.

There is a significant amount of information and documentation that Fine Art Registry has stored over the last three years which has not yet been revealed. Things we have investigated and known about for a very long time, but just haven't had a chance to share yet with our members and readership. It was Ira Shore that sold his "at-sea auction" (what this consisted of at the time is anyone's guess) business to Albert Scaglione in 1993 or 1994 and it is Ira Shore who arranged business contracts for Park West Gallery and has sold a great deal of artwork to Park West Gallery which they in turn sold aboard cruise ships and no doubt at land auctions.

For example, in a May 2008 Art Business News article titled, "Gallery roundtable: eight fine-art professionals meet for a candid discussion on the changing art market," (Google the article to see for yourself) it was reported that "Ira Shore provides his professional services almost exclusively to Park West Gallery, an art and auction company, with locations in Southfield, Mich., and Miami Lakes, Florida." And glaringly on the top of page 4 of this article the following is referenced as the resource for the article:

* Fine Art Management Corporation: www.parkwestgallery.com

Hmmm? Here we have Fine Art Management Corporation and Park West Gallery as the source for the article - what a neat and tidy little arrangement. The question is how much does Ira Shore play into the whole Plymouth Auctioneering and Park West Gallery scenario? As is usual with Park West Gallery - it seeks to own and control everything and everyone - its so-called experts, its appraisers, its business partners - even its artists. It is the Park West Gallery way.

In a 2001 Art Business News article it was reported that Ira Shore's business "continues to supply art to Park West." Shore was also quoted stating, "The evolution is amazing. Albert [Scaglione] accounts for a large part of my business. I owe my success to him...."

Fine Art Registry has learned from Park West Gallery insiders that Ira Shore was and probably still is behind many of the art and artists' contracts as well as other art deals that Park West Gallery has entered into over the years, including the recruiting for Plymouth Auctioneering. It is important to remember that in 2008, Ira Shore told Art Business News that he worked exclusively for Park West Gallery which would make sense because, as mentioned above, it is a common practice for Park West Gallery to have exclusivity on everything, including the artwork it sells both by contemporary "living" artists (and especially in the case of its Dali and Rembrandt inventory), its auctioneers or sales staff, its so-called experts, and even its lawyers. Accordingly, like Ira Shore and Fine Art Management Corporation, Plymouth Auctioneering is also exclusive to Park West Gallery.

The Tie That Binds Park West Gallery, Plymouth Auctioneering, and Fine Art Management Group

We discovered that Ira Shore maintains a current web site (as cheesy as it is) known as www.auctioneeratsea.com. The site is copyrighted "2007-2010 Fine Art Management Corporation." However, the web site has Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering written all over it. The homepage of the web site states as clear as day:

And then there is this gem of a 2007 press release also posted on the Fine Art Management web site:

Note the bolded and underlined phrase above. As we stated already, there is only one gallery that we know that proclaims itself the "largest art dealer in the world" and that is Park West Gallery.

And the following web page speaks volumes. Note that Park West Gallery is prominently displayed with all the cruise line brands that it serves. Uh-oh! We are sure Disney wouldn't want to see their brand on this page. Disney booted Park West Gallery off their ships a year ago. We are certain that none of the cruise lines are very happy with Park West Gallery these days and would just as well see their brands deleted from this page. Also note the brand name "Shoreline Gift Resources, LLC." Yup, you guessed it. This belongs to good old Ira Shore too. What cozy little partners we have here.

There can be no doubt that there is a solid connection between Albert Scaglione, Park West Gallery, Plymouth Auctioneering, Fine Art Management Corporation, and Ira Shore.

Here are a few FAQs from Ira Shore's web site that further illustrate the connection between all three entities with the common denominator being Park West Gallery:

Note the reference above to training in Detroit and Florida. Park West Gallery's main operation is in Southfield, Michigan and its framing and distribution affiliate (PWG Florida, Inc. dba Fine Art Sales) is located in Miami Lakes, Florida, which is managed as mentioned above by an individual named, Albert Molina - who also just happens to be a principal of Park West Gallery.

Make no mistake. Park West Gallery has complete control over Plymouth Auctioneering and it would seem Fine Art Management Corporation which is also exclusive to Park West. Fine Art Management Corporation is an "authorized agent" of Plymouth Auctioneering Services, Ltd. Therefore, Plymouth Auctioneering fits squarely into U.S. jurisdiction. In other words, Park West Gallery and Albert Scaglione can no longer make the claim that Plymouth Auctioneering is immune from lawsuits merely because Plymouth is formed in the Turks & Caicos Islands. And the fact that Park West Gallery purchased the domain name for Plymouth Auctioneering and also controls the Plymouth Auctioneering web site and advertises for salesmen using the web site, it is clear that Plymouth Auctioneering is indeed a sham or front for Park West Gallery and that it [Plymouth] has engaged in substantial business activity in the U.S. and has purposefully availed itself of the privilege of conducting business in every state in the U.S. as the web sites (operated by Park West and Fine Art Management on behalf of Plymouth) and advertisements on those sites are posted on the world wide web for all to see. Both web sites are also interactive, meaning that potential candidates in the U.S. and abroad are encouraged to sign up or inquire regarding employment with Park West Gallery through the Plymouth Auctioneering and Fine Art Management web sites. The Fine Art Management web site states very clearly, "Plymouth Auctioneering Services, Ltd. has commissioned Fine Art Management Corporation to take on the task of recruiting Art Auctioneers for cruise ship art auctions."

And there is more...

In 2003, a lawsuit was filed by Media Arts Group, Inc., against Park West Galleries, Inc., Park West Gallery, Albert Scaglione, Fine Art Management, and Ira Shore for copyright infringement, unfair business practices, breach of contract, unjust enrichment and conspiracy. Sound familiar? Park West Gallery has a habit of not only ripping off its customers, but also its artists. Well known International artists Gary Benfield and Alex Perez are two of the more egregious cases we have reported on recently. Published here in its entirety is yet another lawsuit where Park West Gallery, Albert Scaglione, and Ira Shore, were accused of ripping off internationally renowned artist, Thomas Kinkade and his authorized agent, Media Arts Group.

The complaint is illustrative of the pattern of deceptive trade practices that Park West Gallery and Albert Scaglione seem to regularly engage in, as well as exhibiting a "unity of interest and ownership" between Albert Scaglione and Park West Gallery. Specifically, the complaint, filed on March 11, 2003, states in relevant part:

Sworn Affidavits on the Ownership and Structure of Plymouth Auctioneering

So what is the truth? Well, Mr. Scaglione did in fact know who the owner or the principal of Plymouth Auctioneering was after all because Park West Gallery was involved in litigation with Plymouth Auctioneering in the not so distant past. Isn’t that right, Al? In fact, all of the companies in your empire were parties in the lawsuit and it was quite serious for Park West Gallery at the time because you were wrangling over your contracts with the cruise lines. Remember that one Al? Well, in case you're a bit rusty, let us remind you.

Fine Art Registry is in possession of two sworn affidavits signed and dated July 1, 2002 and July 31, 2002, respectively, which were filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in a case we will report on in the near future. These sworn affidavits are allegedly signed by a man named John A. Phillips, who stated under oath that he is the "SOLE OFFICER, DIRECTOR AND SHAREHOLDER of Plymouth Auctioneering Services, Ltd." He also stated under oath that he "is the sole stockholder of Plymouth," and that he is "Plymouth's only officer and director," and that "Plymouth operates essentially as a personnel leasing company, engaging the independent services of art auctioneers and then making those art auctioneers available to art dealers, specifically [and exclusively] Keaton, Inc. d/b/a Park West at Sea, for the purpose of conducting art auctions on cruise ships operating outside the United States and in international waters."

Isn't it interesting how the affidavits by Phillips were simply taken at face value - with a notary seal of someone in the Turks & Caicos Islands with no "notary commission expiration" noted? We wonder if anyone bothered to verify if John A. Phillips actually existed. How would anyone ever really know for sure?

John A. Phillips also swears that "Plymouth does not manage or direct the art auctioneers." This is a significant admission - a noteworthy statement indeed because when it suits them, Park West Gallery, Albert Scaglione, and the cruise lines tender responsibility for the fraud and misrepresentations of Park West Gallery auctioneers to Plymouth Auctioneering in order to try to escape liability. So, if Plymouth Auctioneering does not manage or direct the art auctioneers, who does? The only logical answer is Park West Gallery, of course and/or it's other affiliate companies, Keaton, Inc. dba Park West at Sea.

In the second affidavit allegedly by the same individual, John A. Phillips (bearing the same exact notary seal with no expiration date) swears to the following: "Plymouth has a contractual relationship with Keaton Inc. to which Plymouth performs its services outside of the United States." It's simply amazing to Fine Art Registry that Scaglione didn't recall this "contractual relationship" when he was deposed on November 13, 2009. Certainly, if Keaton, Inc. dba Park West at Sea had a contractual relationship with Plymouth Auctioneering, Scaglione must have signed off on it. The statement that "Plymouth performs its services outside of the United States," couldn't be further from the truth.

Keep in mind what we stated above about "labor racketeering," which is exactly what we believe is going on between Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering. There is no question that the salesmen or auctioneers that sell Park West Gallery art aboard cruise ships are for the most part foreign nationals. All of them are sent to Detroit or to Miami Lakes for training and ALWAYS at the Park West Gallery facilities. How these foreign nationals enter the U.S. should be explored and investigated by law enforcement, if it is not already doing so.

Interestingly, it was recently reported to Fine Art Registry that several foreign nationals claiming to work for "Park West Gallery selling art aboard Carnival cruise ships" entered a Hooters restaurant in Cape Canaveral Florida, and caused quite a scene. Incredibly, these individuals were also representing the cruise line they were sailing on, as all of the individuals were wearing Carnival Cruise Line jackets. These Park West Gallery auctioneers were drinking to the point of excess and becoming quite belligerent. They started harassing the waitress who was serving them, which caused discomfort to other patrons in the restaurant, so much so that the patrons intervened and challenged the Park West Gallery louts on their abusive treatment of the waitress. The patrons witnessed the Park West Gallery auctioneers taking photographs of the Hooters waitresses without the waitresses' knowledge or permission (what they planned to do with the photos is anyone's guess). When the patrons challenged the Park West Gallery thugs regarding their lewd and obnoxious behavior, they became even more aggressive and confrontational. The patrons reported to Fine Art Registry that during the incident, they had Googled "Park West Gallery" on their I-Phone and learned that Park West Gallery had class action suits and other significant complaints filed against it. The patrons then confronted the Park West Gallery auctioneers with what they found on the Internet and also reported what was happening to restaurant management and to Carnival Cruise line. It was soon after being confronted with the knowledge of what the patrons found online that the Park West Gallery auctioneers quickly left the restaurant WITHOUT paying their bill and before restaurant management could take action. We can't imagine that Carnival Cruise Lines would approve of such abhorrent behavior from its business partner, Park West Gallery, especially when Park West Gallery employees were wearing Carnival Cruise Lines branding. An unbelievable story, but true! The complete incident report is on file with Fine Art Registry.

The fact that Park West Gallery auctioneers were wearing cruise line brand apparel is a clear indication of the joint venture relationships between Park West Gallery and the cruise lines.

Park West Gallery Florida Personnel Recruits/Hires Auctioneers

We have established that Plymouth Auctioneering exists as a "sham" or a "front" corporation for Park West Gallery. All auctioneers are reported as having been recruited or hired by Park West Gallery personnel, such as Jack Sweetman, who is mentioned above. But to put a finer point on the subject, we offer as an illustration, a much more recent case of just how the Park West Gallery recruitment process works. You will see that despite the fact that this deals with recruitment of auctioneers, there is NEVER any mention of Plymouth Auctioneering anywhere in the email correspondence. Rather, this recruiter is purportedly working from the Florida affiliate facility on behalf of Park West Gallery which is clearly evident by the email signature block. There can be no doubt that Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering are one and the same.

The following email was sent from a Park West Gallery employee in Florida (or so it would appear) to a potential auctioneer recruit in Chicago, Illinois, whose contact information is redacted to protect his identity.

And as luck would have it, there just happens to be a LinkedIn page for Selena Kim. In order to preserve the evidence we have posted a screen shot of the page below. Park West Gallery is notorious for deleting and destroying evidence, especially on the Web, so we’ve made a permanent record of it here:

It is important to point out on the LinkedIn page that Selena Kim's FORMER position was as an Associate Art Auctioneer at Plymouth Auctioneering, but CURRENTLY works in the "Greater Chicago Area" (or so the LinkedIn page states) as a "Recruiter for Park West,*" to "Recruit sales professionals to produce live art auctions onboard cruise ships for the world's largest art dealer."

[*Park West Gallery informed all of its auctioneers in a memorandum (which Fine Art Registry has on file) to cease from using the name "Park West Gallery" and to instead begin referring to the company as "Park West". Hmmm? What in the world could Albert Scaglione be planning?]

We have now established that Selena Kim is working as a Park West Gallery (not Plymouth Auctioneering) recruiter for "sales professionals" to "produce live art auctions onboard cruise ships". Has anyone noticed yet what's wrong with this picture? Note the address Selena Kim uses for her email and then compare it with her LinkedIn web page. Why does the LinkedIn page reflect the "Greater Chicago Area" when her email (with an address of skim@parkwestgallery.com) reflects a physical address in Miami Lakes, Florida? The email from Selena Kim is offering Bill an interview in Chicago. But why send an email from Florida? As far as we know Park West or Park West Gallery or Park West Galleries, Inc. or whatever they are calling themselves these days, does not do business in Florida. The physical address on the email of 16000 N.W. 59th Avenue, is associated with a company by the name of PWG Florida, Inc. dba Fine Art Sales, which is an affiliate of Park West Gallery, where the framing and distribution part of the company is located. But the entity "Park West or Park West Gallery or Galleries" does not do business in Florida.

So we have Selena Kim, a Park West recruiter for auctioneers sending email sourcing from a "Park West Gallery" email address (which is based in Southfield, Michigan), using a physical address of "Park West" in Miami Lakes, Florida (when there is no entity "Park West Gallery" in Miami Lakes, Florida) and attempting to arrange a meeting for a potential recruit for an auctioneer job in Chicago, Illinois. This couldn't be more suspect.

Bill was wise enough to pick up on some of these inconsistencies and decided to perform his own due diligence on the company. He writes the following email in response to Selena Kim's offer for an interview in Chicago, as follows:

Not surprising, Bill received the following outrageous email response from Selena Kim. As the Queen says in Hamlet Act III Scene 2, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

This email is more of the typical propaganda spewed by Park West with no basis in fact - the usual ridiculous and hard-nosed tactics Park West Gallery employs in responding to individuals (whether they are buyers, auctioneer recruits, industry experts, or anyone else) with valid and pointed questions concerning Park West's deceptive and unfair trade practices. Rather than answer Bill's legitimate questions (which Park West employees are brainwashed not to do), Selena Kim goes on ad nauseam pointing fingers, vomiting excuses, and referencing links to the ridiculous Park West Gallery sponsored web sites (omitted). The auctioneer "testimonials" Selena Kim references will be reserved for a future article on Fine Art Registry. Suffice it to state that the testimonials have little to do with art and EVERYTHING to do with making boatloads of money from unsuspecting victims aboard cruise ships. We are certain that Park West Gallery never thought Fine Art Registry would come into possession of it. It's quite shocking and demonstrates the mentality of Park West Gallery.

Selena Kim shows her ignorance by stating that certain things have been admitted to "in court" when there has NEVER been a court proceeding held where principals of Fine Art Registry have ever been present much less before a judge.

Clearly, Selena Kim was either misinformed by her employer, Park West, or perhaps she made all this up herself as some wild fantasy in her own mind. So, on February 10, 2010, the writer of this article phoned Selena Kim at the phone number referenced on her email (which is in Miami-Dade County, Florida) to try to determine where in the world the information contained in her email sourced from and to determine what facts she had to support the truth of the statements she made in her email to Bill and to ask her questions regarding the relationship between Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering. Ms. Kim immediately put the writer of this article on hold for quite some time. In fact, she never returned to the line and the line eventually disconnected. Giving Selena Kim the benefit of the doubt, this writer phoned her a second time. The recording of the conversation between this writer and Selena Kim follows and is solid evidence and proof positive that Park West Gallery is not at all interested in the truth, much less communicating the truth to third parties. Selena Kim's email is filled with lies and innuendo. The recording says it all.

Fine Art Registry has made numerous attempts to contact Park West Gallery from the beginning to seek out the truth. Yet they refuse to talk with us, or their lawyers shut us down. This speaks volumes about a company. While Fine Art Registry extends the courtesy to Park West Gallery to invite them to comment on what we report, never once has Park West Gallery contacted Fine Art Registry to fact check before they send out salacious lies and defamatory statements such as those Selena Kim references in her email to Bill. That's because they are on a mission to destroy Fine Art Registry for reporting the truth. Beware of Selena Kim and the Park West Gallery recruiters. It has been reported that Park West Gallery advertises through Monster.com and Craig's List.

It is truly astounding to Fine Art Registry that Park West Gallery can't or won't simply answer the tough questions that Fine Art Registry and others in the art industry have posed to them about their artwork and deceptive and unfair trade practices from the very beginning. Park West Gallery is in our opinion an enterprise that is deceptive in all things.

Thankfully, Bill was saved and saw the email from Selena Kim for exactly what it was, full of lies and deceit. After receiving the response from Selena Kim, Bill wrote the following email to Fine Art Registry when we asked him if he would permit us to publish the email exchange:

All of the information we have presented in this article in addition to the recent email exchange between Bill and Selena Kim blurs any line that Scaglione claims exists between Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering. There is an abundance of evidence and documentation that Fine Art Registry has on file (far too much to include in this article) that the two, Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering, are one, and that Albert Scaglione and each and every entity that exists in the Park West Gallery empire is an alter ego of the other.

— by Fine Art Registry®  |  February 12, 2010

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