It sounds more like the minty white repros on eBay.He "acknowledged that [they were fakes and] he then waited a few months and resold them to someone else".
I bet the minty white crew has taken in more than this guy, and more than the Haggard, combined. There's gold in selling fakes one at a time on eBay for ten solid years. Bruce On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Sean Linkenback <[email protected]>wrote: > We can only hope that Kerry Haggard suffers a similar fate with his > Universal Horror fakes. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* [email protected] > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 06, 2010 7:41 PM > *Subject:* [MOPO] OT FAKE PICASSSOS ON EBAY > > This is going to make even more difficult to sell my yard gnome by > Michelangelo............. > > CHICAGO – A suburban Chicago man pleaded guilty Tuesday to swindling at > least 250 people out of more than $1 million through the sale of counterfeit > prints advertised as the work of Pablo Picasso and other major > contemporary artists. > > Michael Zabrin of Northbrook admitted sometimes paying between $1,000 and > $1,500 for counterfeit limited edition fine art prints produced in Spainand > Italy and reselling them on eBay for many times that amount. > > In his signed plea agreement with prosecutors, 57-year-old Zabrin said he > would send away to his Italian source for fake Picassos, saying: "I need > some P's." When he needed bogus works by Roy Lichtenstein, he would say: > "I need some L's." > > In the summer of 2004, Zabrin purchased eight counterfeit works purportedly > by Marc Chagall for $20,000 "which he resold at no less than three times > his cost," according to the plea agreement which was presented to Judge > Robert M. Dow Jr. > > Zabrin agreed in the document that he caused foreseeable losses of more > than $1 million but less than $2.5 million with works turned out by "the > Spanish guy" and another supplier in Italy. He also admitted trading fake > art works with other dealers. > > Zabrin was among seven people charged in March 2008 on charges of trading > in fake works by Picasso, Lichtenstein, Chagall, Joan Miro and Salvador > Dali. He was the first to be convicted. Charges against the six others are > pending. > > Zabrin pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud. > > The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of > $250,000. But prosecutors calculated that under federal sentencing > guidelines Zabrin could be facing a prison term in the 10- to 13-year > range. > > Dow set March 23 for sentencing. > > According to the plea agreement, Zabrin had been previously convicted of > telephone harassment, mail fraud and retail theft. > > Zabrin admitted conducting 280 sales of fraudulent art on eBay through his > companies, Fineartmasters and ZFineartmasters. When some customers realized > they had bought fakes, they returned them. Zabrin acknowledged that he then > waited a few months and resold them to someone else. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
