Worthless Dalis sold on cruises report New York Post
August 5, 2011 by admin
Filed under FAR Investigates, Fine Art Registry
Totally Sketchy - New York Post
On July 31, 2011 the New York Post published an article by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein entitled Totally ’sketchy’ - ‘Worthless’ Dalis sold on cruises.
Biro and Volpe Art Investment Scheme
August 5, 2011 by admin
Filed under FAR Investigates, Fine Art Registry
An Elaborate Art Investment Scheme
As most in the art world now know, Peter Paul Biro is suing the New Yorker magazine and its writer, David Grann, and others for defamation. This third article in our continuing series will focus on Peter Paul Biro, the “art restorer.” No matter what Biro claims his profession is these days, art restoration is his bailiwick. There is simply no credible evidence that we have been able to locate that confirms Biro is a specially trained and recognized “scientist,” as he claims in Paragraph 6 of his lawsuit, much less a qualified or recognized latent fingerprint examiner, except perhaps in his own mind.
It is important to consider the world of possibilities and remarkable expertise that an art restorer possesses when working with fine art and valuables. Art conservationists serve a very important function in the art market. Without art restorers, the art market would suffer greatly. While there are many reputable and well-respected art restorers worldwide, there are always exceptions. In the arena of art crime and art fraud, an art restorer can be and is often used as an essential key in a scheme to defraud.
Read the entire article: Peter Paul Biro and Ex-Con Tod Volpe Hit The “Mark”
Richard English Testifies Against Park West Gallery
August 5, 2011 by admin
Filed under Art Crime, FAR Investigates
Witness Intimidation, Lies, and the Cold Hard Truth for Park West Gallery and its Dali Inventory
Richard English and his wife, Tracey, are two more financial fatalities in a long and never ending line of Park West Gallery victims. Richard English testified at trial for Fine Art Registry. Though Richard English and other Fine Art Registry® witnesses were harassed and intimidated by Park West Gallery’s lawyers in an attempt to keep them from testifying at trial, the slime ball tactic didn’t work and it hasn’t worked from the beginning when Park West Gallery tried to keep our expert witnesses from testifying at deposition and at trial.
Richard English drove from Maryland to Port Huron, Michigan, in order to tell his appalling story of abuse and rip off by Park West Gallery. At the time, Mr. English was out of a job and desperate as many Americans are today to find work. It didn’t help that he was holding worthless, unauthorized, and forged Park West Gallery works of art that he could not sell. Before he learned he had been scammed by the self-proclaimed world’s largest art peddler on the planet, Richard hoped that he could sell the Park West artwork to help him make it through his tough financial times. After all, Park West Gallery and its fork-tongued salesmen represent that the artwork they sell is “investment” grade artwork; that it can be sold for many times its original purchase price and that Park West Gallery will buy the artwork back–all of which is a bald-faced lie. The bottom line: There is no secondary market for Park West Gallery artwork. And all the conjuring in the world won’t make it so.
Like hundreds of others, Richard English is still waiting to be refunded for the forged and fake artwork he purchased from Park West Gallery years ago. He is currently suing Park West Gallery. And while Richard English and others who are out of work wait for justice to prevail in the court system (which Park West Gallery expertly manipulates to its advantage with their numerous junk-yard dog lawyers around the country), the fat cat, Albert Scaglione, remains firmly ensconced in his lavish empire, resting in the lap of luxury while his lawyers keep the fee meter ramped.
Read the entire article and trial testimony at Fine Art Registry.