Park West Gallery Litigation Update #12:

Fine Art Registry® to Square Off with Park West Gallery in Port Huron, Michigan

Read the previous Park West Gallery Litigation Updates

THE DAY OF RECKONING!

Fine Art Registry® and Park West Gallery are scheduled to duke it out at the Federal District Court in Port Huron, Michigan, on March 15, 2010. Fine Art Registry has been in training for this big event for nearly three years now and we can’t wait to weigh in. No longer will Albert Scaglione be able to hide behind the curtain. Game day is finally at hand. Fine Art Registry cordially invites all of its readers and members to attend the trial in Port Huron, Michigan. It is a public forum and you are all welcome. It will be history in the making, no matter what happens and it will certainly be one of the most exciting trials in art history - we will make certain of it. The Park West Gallery deceptive and unfair trade practices will finally be laid bare in front of a jury of real people from all walks of life and there won't be a thing Park West Gallery lawyers will be able to do to stop the bleed. In any event, Fine Art Registry is prepared to meet head to head with the "Bernie Madoff" of the art industry - the self-proclaimed "largest art gallery" on planet earth.

Throughout the discovery phase of the litigation with Park West Gallery, this writer has attended (either in person or telephonically) every single deposition taken in the case (and there have been a good number of them in the U.S. and abroad—including three depositions of her own). This writer has also read, reviewed, and studied every single document produced by Park West Gallery (totaling thousands and thousands of pages).

In contrast, the ONLY deposition that Albert Scaglione attended was his own - his arrogance astounding, he relies solely on his lawyers to navigate in an art industry they clearly do not understand and which they care nothing about. Their complete lack of industry knowledge combined with zero passion equals a fat and flabby fighter with no heart. The Park West Gallery lawyers care only for their own bottom line and have already developed their exit strategies. They are making outrageous sums of money from the endless Park West Gallery litigation and they hope that they will be riding the Park West Gallery gravy train until it runs completely off the track. What with the hundreds of millions Park West Gallery has made from victims over the 13 years that it has operated on cruise ships and at land auctions - all from the self-proclaimed 1.2 million "satisfied" customers Park West claims to have sold their artwork to, they can probably keep their legal beagles in the clover for a long time and hold out on paying any victims until they claim bankruptcy or until the cruise lines are made to belly on up to the victim bar to pay the hundreds of thousands of claims that will be flooding in.

Do you suppose that Park West Gallery lawyers would take Park West art in trade for their legal services? Nah! The Park West Gallery lawyers may not be the sharpest pencils in the drawer or the brightest bulbs in the lamps, but they aren't stupid, especially when it comes to their precious hourly billings. If the Park West Gallery artwork was truly the grand investment value that Park West Gallery represents it to be, supported by the outlandish and inflated appraisals signed by the owner of the inventory, you would think the Park West Gallery lawyers would be clamoring to own it. Even the Park West Gallery lawyers know that one does not appraise his own sock drawer.

The lawyers for Park West know exactly what Park West Gallery sells, right Goldman? Didn't you refer to the Park West Gallery art as "shit" at the depositions in New York? Yes, you certainly did and there were witnesses in the room, including Sharon Day as well as Fine Art Registry lawyers and others, including the court reporter that heard you say it. And incredibly, we later learned through Park West Gallery insiders that Morris Shapiro and gallery employees all refer to Park West inventory as "ship shit". And we can't forget Goldman's little buddy, Bob Wittman. He was there too.

Wittman, who is Goldman's sidekick (they go everywhere together including hot air balloons rides over Peru) has been reported as having intimidated victims, experts, witnesses, and reporters in the media, and has in fact entered gated, residential communities without authorization and has represented himself on numerous occasions to be an FBI Agent when he has no credentials, no badge, and no gun (at least as far as we know, he doesn't have a gun - a scary thought).

A Recap of the Last Three Years of Battle and the Upcoming Trial

What's this Litigation All About?

Nearly two years ago, on April 15, 2008, Park West Gallery served a SLAPP lawsuit on Fine Art Registry for nothing more than publishing the truth about Park West Gallery's unfair and deceptive trade practices. Attached to the Park West Gallery lawsuit were the following Fine Art Registry articles which Park West Gallery claimed were defamatory.

• The Art Auction Afloat
• Victims of a Park West at Sea, Park West Gallery Cruise Line Art Auction Scam Speak Out
• Interview with Hochman
• Park West at Sea Art Auction Dali Print Rip Off
• Another Park West at Sea Art Auction Rip Off
• Inside Park West

The Park West Gallery plan in filing and serving the lawsuit was to strike a heavy blow to Fine Art Registry and intimidate us out of existence. It hasn't worked out too well - the blowback for Park West Gallery has been considerable and all it had to do from the beginning was to reform and start to run an honest business. It could have avoided the scalding scrutiny they are facing now, not to mention a lot of embarrassment and financial exposure for the cruise lines who are now being sued in six class action lawsuits, including the Sharon Day and Julian Howard lawsuit filed in Michigan state court with more lawsuits certain to follow in the near future.

Since the filing of the Park West Gallery SLAPP lawsuit nearly two years ago, a mountain of additional evidence has surfaced as a result of our continuing investigation. Over 400 complaints from victims have been reported to Fine Art Registry and mounting daily. Our investigation has gone far above and beyond the rip off of Park West Gallery buyers, and well beyond the few articles we initially published, and has now mushroomed to nearly every area of the Park West Gallery business model including, but not limited to deception and fraud with respect to ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) which we have yet to report on, the Internal Revenue Service (another area we will report on soon), Securities violations and much, much more, including the rape and ruin of artists like Alex Perez and Gary Benfield to name only two. We have heard from other Park West Gallery artists whose stories we are investigating.

While Park West Gallery is very vocal about its lawsuit against Fine Art Registry, they fail to disclose the fact that Fine Art Registry has valid claims of its own against Park West Gallery for trademark infringement and Lanham Act violations as well as defamation and slander after discovering the underhanded, filthy tricks Park West Gallery, its hired writers, and its public relations companies were pulling by hijacking the Fine Art Registry federally registered trademarks. Of course, Park West Gallery tried to cover up their tracks, but they were unsuccessful. In fact, Fine Art Registry was forced to file at great expense, a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) legal action to stop the spread of the Park West Gallery salacious lies. A wise judge with WIPO who decided the case rendered an order that nailed Park West Gallery. Fine Art Registry prevailed and Park West Gallery was no longer able to continue on its course of destruction. But this did not dissuade Park West Gallery's evil intent to destroy Fine Art Registry for long. On the heels of the WIPO action, Park West Gallery and its public relations company, Fleishman Hillard, repeated the same trademark violations and unlawfully infringed Fine Art Registry trademarks by placing Google Ads using our registered trademarks to damage the Fine Art Registry good name and in an effort to divert traffic away from Fine Art Registry and direct traffic to Park West Gallery (and specifically to information about its new hot shot lawyer, Bob Goldman). Once again, Fine Art Registry was forced to file a legal action with Google in order to remove the offending Park West Gallery Google ads and once again, Fine Art Registry prevailed, but not without substantial cost and damage to its registered marks. Park West Gallery continues to this day in its intellectual property theft.

We could fill a book with the despicable and underhanded tactics that Park West Gallery and its lawyers have pulled over the last three years and one day we will reveal the ENTIRE story. Make no mistake, Fine Art Registry maintains solid legal claims against the gallery and we intend to prevail on our claims. Park West Gallery recently tried to get the court to dismiss our claims against them. THEY FAILED. The Fine Art Registry claims against the gallery STAND and we will ask the jury to award substantial damages against the gallery at the trial on March 15, 2010. Statutory damages alone on Park West Gallery's trademark infringement total at least $1,000,000.00 and Park West Gallery doesn't have a leg to stand on - no defense whatsoever. Park West Gallery will be taken to task for its infringement, theft, and hijacking of the Fine Art Registry registered trademarks through its paid agents, writer Louis Postel and Fleishman Hillard.

Throughout the two years of litigation with Fine Art Registry, Park West Gallery and its lawyers have focused almost entirely on defending their forged Dali inventory. In other words, they put all their eggs in one basket. There is of course much, much more to the Park West Gallery fraud than its Dali inventory. It may be true that the Park West Dali inventory is its Achilles' heel. After all Park West spent a small fortune cornering the market on Divine Comedy and Biblia Sacra Dali prints. Drooling with greed, they invested hundreds of thousands in buying its Dali stock from shady European sources, but there is much, much more to this brute of fraud than meets the eye and Fine Art Registry is looking forward to finally being able to educate the jury from soup to nuts on Park West Gallery's business model and its deceptive and unfair practices, from their bogus dog and pony show auctions right down to their fraud on the U.S. government and more. Park West Gallery will not be able to hide behind the skirts of their raunchy lawyers any longer. Albert Scaglione and the rest of the Park West Gallery gang will be forced to ante up.

February 28, 2008 - The WKMG Orlando Cruise Ship Art Investigation

It was through Investigative Reporter, Mike Holfeld at WKMG TV in Orlando, Florida, that Fine Art Registry first learned that Park West Gallery had filed a retaliatory lawsuit against Fine Art Registry. In other words, we had warning from WKMG Channel 6 that a lawsuit had been filed on April 11, 2008 in Michigan and that Park West Gallery intended to formally serve Fine Art Registry. The timing and reasoning behind the filing of this lawsuit was clear. Park West Gallery was doing everything in its power to kill the Florida investigative report and to try to financially crush Fine Art Registry. They certainly did not want Mike Holfeld’s story to air in Florida and Park West Gallery's principals, Albert Scaglione and Albert Molina did everything they could to try to stop it. Park West Gallery's Florida lawyers, Coffey Burlington deluged Mike Holfeld and WKMG with the usual bogus, confusing, and convoluted Dali "authentication documents" from Park West Gallery's suspicious European sources in order to try to convince WKMG that its Dali inventory was indeed legitimate, which it was not, at least as it related to the alleged Dali signatures applied to the prints. At the time of Mike Holfeld's investigation which began at the end of February, 2008, at least 30 Park West Gallery victims had come to Fine Art Registry with very serious complaints regarding Park West Gallery's bad business practices.

The CEO of Fine Art Registry was first contacted by Mike Holfeld of WKMG (Channel 6) in Orlando on or about March 11, 2008, soon after an Inside Edition piece aired on the subject of Park West Gallery rip offs. A Florida victim contacted Mike Holfeld after watching the Inside Edition program and wanted help in determining whether she indeed had a forged Dali print. The victim had purchased a Biblia Sacra print from Park West Gallery for a whopping $18,000. It was determined by world experts that the print was forged. Also, featured in the story with Mike Holfeld was Fine Art Registry member, Debi Austin, who remains a plaintiff in the Sharon Day and Julian Howard litigation against Park West Gallery which has a pending trial date of July 2010. Royal Caribbean is also a Defendant in the Sharon Day and Julian Howard litigation.

The Razor Sharp Truth Park West Gallery Will No Longer Be Able To Ignore

August and September 2007 - Early Attempts Fine Art Registry Made to Discover the Truth

As much as Park West Gallery would like to sweep it all under the rug, they cannot get past the documented historical facts. In the last two years of litigation, Park West Gallery, Albert Scaglione, Albert Molina, and Bob "The Dancing Bear" Goldman, have made up all kinds of lies and fabrications as to why Fine Art Registry was reporting on Park West Gallery's bad business practices. Park West Gallery, Albert Scaglione and its lawyers just couldn't figure out why this writer would pursue such a cause, if it didn't benefit her or Fine Art Registry financially. So they manufactured and fabricated lies. They just couldn't get over the fact that Fine Art Registry was reporting the truth for the purity of the truth and for the health of the art industry. The reason behind this writer's fight in standing up for what is right is said best by a Park West victim whose family spent $800,000 on artwork that is near worthless. He wrote to us recently and said:

In a world where corporate greed is the order of the day, Fine Art Registry is interested in nothing but making the art industry a safer and a better place to do business - to protect artists, collectors and other art enthusiasts from the bad and the ugly of the industry. There are other offenders out there, just like Park West Gallery, who are also currently under investigation and whom we will also be reporting on soon. Fine Art Registry is sincere about its mission. Park West Gallery had every opportunity early on to reform its bad business practices and has not done so. A leopard rarely changes its spots.

Prior to Mike Holfeld and the WKMG investigation, Fine Art Registry had tried for nearly a year to get Park West Gallery to respond to the very serious claims we were receiving from victims. David Phillips, Publication Director of Fine Art Registry wrote a lengthy email letter to Park West Gallery’s lawyer, Robert Burlington (the same lawyer involved in the Alex Perez rip off) on September 2, 2007, seven months before Mike Holfeld's and Inside Edition's investigative reports. The email correspondence David Phillips sent is posted below in its entirety. We have redacted the names of the victims in order to protect them from harassment by the Park West Gallery thugs:

David Phillips email was completely ignored. We never received a response (not even an acknowledgement) from either Robert Burlington or from any one at Park West Gallery, even though we clearly asked Park West Gallery for their side of the story and for clarification on what was being reported to us as very serious allegations of criminal activity.

We knew that Robert Burlington and Park West Gallery were well aware of the complaints we were receiving from victims and we knew that Burlington had received David's email inquiry, because just two days prior to David's email message, on August 31, 2007, Park West Gallery registered and joined the Fine Art Registry Forum (and they are still active members to this day) and posted the following:

David Phillips did in fact contact Park West Gallery, on September 6, 2007, in response to the invitation in the Park West Gallery Forum Post. This was just days after the email David Phillips had sent to Park West Gallery lawyer, Robert Burlington which went unanswered, though Burlington found plenty of time to phone up a Fine Art Registry member who was eventually successful in getting a refund with our help, to find out all he could about Fine Art Registry. Burlington told this victim and we have the documented evidence to prove it, that he [Burlington] had always advised Park West Gallery to simply refund customers who complained—advice that, to its detriment, Park West Gallery clearly did not heed.

The recording of David's conversation with the Park West Gallery representative follows and speaks for itself.

Again, our attempts to get answers to our very serious questions and concerns went unanswered by Park West Gallery. Despite the invitation from Park West Gallery in the FAR® forum, and Kristin Berry's assurance that she would "get this information together…and find out the right people to talk with and...definitely be in touch soon," we never heard back from anyone at Park West Gallery with answers to our questions.

March 12, 2008 - Fast Forward Seven Months Later - Albert Molina Contacts FAR®

Before Park West Gallery filed its SLAPP lawsuit against Fine Art Registry and before Fine Art Registry was aware of the lawsuit having been filed, Albert Molina, a principal of Park West Gallery (who used to own Fine Art Sales, Inc. before he sold it to Al Scaglione in 1999) called Fine Art Registry CEO, Theresa Franks (this writer) on March 12, 2008 and offered to fly her out to Michigan or to Florida to "meet" with him (and presumably other Park West representatives). Molina told this writer that he had "just discovered" our web site for the first time the day before his call. This was a lie, of course, especially in light of the fact that we had written to Park West and called them the year before (2007) for answers to our questions concerning their bad business practices and were completely ignored, as we have already established above. But Molina prattled on. This writer knew Molina was well aware of the WKMG Florida cruise art investigation at the time of his call.

Molina was clearly trying to buy Fine Art Registry and our silence which is exactly what Park West Gallery did with RipoffReport.com (which touts itself as a "consumer advocacy" organization). That's right. RipoffReport was paid and probably is still being paid a monthly nut from Park West Gallery to suppress valid complaints from being posted. In fact, it was reported to Fine Art Registry by a Park West insider that the first check to RipoffReport from Park West Gallery was $66,000. Some advocacy group - what a joke. In any event, it was crystal clear that Molina had the same in mind for Fine Art Registry - to buy us off. But we don't work that way. We don't accept bribes or pay offs from anyone at any time. The Fine Art Registry mission is to bring order to the world of art – a completely unregulated market. This writer declined to meet with what she told Molina were "a bunch of rattlesnakes."

Other issues were discussed in this phone call concerning the bad business practices of Park West and victim complaints and one complaint in particular reported to us by a pancreatic cancer patient, who is now deceased. In this phone conversation, Molina also asked this writer if we would publish the Park West Gallery side of the story on the Park West Dali inventory and this writer readily agreed and welcomed the opportunity stating to Molina that any "authentication documents" would of course have to be "verified by independent third parties". The March 12, 2008 call ended and Molina phoned this writer a second time on March 13, 2008 to report that Park West Gallery would refund the victim who was dying of pancreatic cancer and to his credit he followed through. A refund check was issued and sent to the victim. What was NOT forthcoming, however, was the Park West Gallery side of the story that Fine Art Registry agreed to print. Fine Art Registry never heard from Molina or anyone at Park West Gallery again - that is, until Fine Art Registry was served with a lawsuit about 30 days later, on April 15, 2008.

April 15, 2008 - Thirty-One Days AFTER the Phone Call to FAR - Albert Molina's Email to Mike Holfeld

It was on April 11, 2008, through Investigative Reporter, Mike Holfeld that this writer first learned that Park West Gallery had filed a lawsuit against Fine Art Registry. And again, Park West Gallery's main goal in filing the lawsuit against Fine Art Registry was first and foremost to try to convince Mike Holfeld to kill the story he was about to air and it would also serve as a veiled threat to WKMG and Mike Holfeld that Park West Gallery may do the same to them if the story moved forward.

On April 15, 2008, Albert Molina sent an email to Mike Holfeld of WKMG - an email that is quite damning to Park West Gallery. It is important to note that the email was sent to Mike Holfeld at WKMG, 31 days AFTER Molina had called and talked with this writer. This email was recently sent to Fine Art Registry from an anonymous source. Interestingly, Park West Gallery NEVER produced this email in this litigation. Park West Gallery was under an obligation to turn over this email to Fine Art Registry and have purposely suppressed it and/or purposely destroyed the evidence for obvious reasons. The email is printed below in its entirety:

The email confirms that Molina is a liar. In 2009, well into this litigation and more than a year after his email to Mike Holfeld, Molina suddenly and out of the blue fabricated a story that in the phone call he made to this writer, she offered FAR registration services to Park West Gallery and that he or they [Park West] declined our services and it was for this reason, and this reason alone, that Fine Art Registry started publishing articles criticizing Park West Gallery's business practices. This fantasy made up by Molina made no sense in light of the historical facts in this case, not to mention the fact that he initiated the call. It was a manufactured lie spun out of thin air. This is just business as usual for Park West Gallery - they fabricate everything, including representations about its art inventory. Albert Scaglione and other Park West Gallery representatives have also repeatedly told this same this lie to media outlets and in Park West press releases in 2008 into 2009. The documented evidence shows otherwise. As prime examples, we refer back to David Phillips' early September 2, 2007, letter to Robert Burlington and David's recorded phone conversation with Kristin Berry of Park West Gallery to which we received NO RESPONSE.

Funny that Molina didn't mention any offer of a business deal in his email to Mike Holfeld on April 15, 2008. In fact, NOTHING from the Park West Gallery camp sent to WKMG mentions a single sentence or a single word about any so called business proposal by Fine Art Registry. If there were a time to mention such a thing, it would be in the email Molina sent to WKMG, especially when Park West was trying with all its might to kill the WKMG investigative report. Scaglione even went so far as to employ the likes of Eli Zaret (a sportscaster in Detroit) to try to convince Mike Holfeld to kill the investigation - even though later he (Zaret) changed his mind about Park West Gallery and communicated to Mike Holfeld that he (Holfeld) was right all along about Park West. In fact, not only did Molina not mention any proposed business deal to Mike Holfeld, he also never disclosed that he had talked with this writer TWICE and at length a month earlier. It wasn't mentioned by Molina because nothing of the kind EVER happened. For more on the historical the fabrications, falsehoods, and lies by Park West Gallery and its principals, see our October 27, 2008 article titled, "When Smear Campaigns Lie, they Backfire on the Smearer"

The Molina email to Mike Holfeld and others authored by Molina, now in our possession, prove what we already knew to be the truth - Molina is a liar and he lied under oath at his deposition. It should also be noted that Fine Art Registry is in possession of an audio recording of the second phone conversation between Molina and this writer that completely destroys Molina's manufactured story. But these slimy tactics and lies are nothing new. Park West Gallery has cheated and lied and fabricated throughout this entire litigation. The Park West lawyers should have disclosed Molina's email to Fine Art Registry, but then again, they practice law the same way Park West peddles its art, by deceiving, lying, and cheating. This and so much more will certainly be communicated to the jury on the stand at the trial of this matter. No longer will Molina, Scaglione, and Shapiro, or their lawyers be able to get away with churning out falsehoods. It certainly will be a day of reckoning.

Note Molina's veiled threat to Mike Holfeld regarding "the airing of a negative story" not being in his "station's interest". Park West Gallery threatened WKMG with litigation, but to WKMG's credit, they pressed ahead. The investigative report aired in spite of Park West Gallery's threats. However, after the investigative report aired, Park West Gallery, ever ruthless in their tactics, later delivered on Molina's veiled threat to Mike Holfeld and filed a legal action against Mr. Holfeld and WKMG in Florida first and when Park West Gallery was not successful there, they took up a second action in Michigan. Thankfully, WKMG and Mike Holfeld PREVAILED. Park West Gallery was spanked by WKMG's lawyers.

The Finish Line

In the two years of litigation that has ensued (and it certainly has been a wild and expensive ride for Fine Art Registry), Park West Gallery and its Keystone Kop legal team have tried every trick in the book to end our existence and anyone else's existence who attempted to challenge their bad business practices. After all, tens of hundreds of millions of dollars were and still are at stake both for Park West and the cruise lines. Park West Gallery has since the beginning tried to intimidate victims, expert witnesses (including Frank Hunter and Nicolas Descharnes) and even the media including Mike Holfeld (WKMG Channel 6 in Orlando) as mentioned above, Cindy Galli (Producer of CBS's Inside Edition), Cahal Milmo (Investigative Reporter for The Independent of London), and others from reporting, speaking out, or giving opinions under oath. A reporter for a television station in Minnesota was threatened by Robert Goldman (one of Park West's legal thugs), and The Artist's Magazine was coerced with threats of legal action into publishing a false rebuttal with falsified photos of an article about their criminal activities, and the list goes on and on.

Although given the opportunity on many occasions, Park West Gallery's CEO Albert Scaglione has never come forward to offer any credible answers to the valid questions we and others have had concerning his company's business practices. As stated above, Fine Art Registry offered to publish Park West's side of the story early on in its investigation. Their continued silence merely confirmed their guilt.

Despite Park West Gallery's SLAPP lawsuit against Fine Art Registry, we were determined that the truth would prevail and so we made a stand and continue to do so to this day. Park West Gallery has been successful over the years using the court system as its sword and when it suits them as a shield as we have amply pointed out on many, many occasions. Park West Gallery has used PR firms to spew their lies as well. Fine Art Registry has fought back mightily and has published a great deal of information concerning Park West Gallery's slick, scheming and devious tactics throughout this litigation and throughout the litigation for which Park West Gallery is suing it own customers - the victims. One only has to read our litigation updates and our investigative articles and videos to realize the depth of what our small team has uncovered and accomplished in spite of the Park West Gallery monster. Robert Goldman (aka The Dancing Bear), hired by Park West Gallery late in the game thought he would waltz in and step on the Fine Art Registry neck and squash us like a bug. Goldman's tired claim to fame is that he once worked for the U.S. Government as an assistant U.S. attorney (big deal), and glued to his side is his little buddy and private dick, Bob Wittman (who once worked for the FBI - retired agents - a dime a dozen) - the two are a package deal. To give our readership an idea of who these two Park West Gallery hired boobs really are, a reliable source recently reported the following to Fine Art Registry:

Fine Art Registry did in fact call and interview the source of the quote above. It was an eye opener, but nothing that this writer has not already experienced firsthand during many depositions with the two (Bert & Ernie). Goldman is ignorant when it comes to the art industry and the Internet and even more clueless when it comes to civil litigation. In any event, the source of the quote above personally experienced Wittman on a case he had. They worked together for over eight months and he quickly realized that Wittman knew absolutely nothing about art or art fraud. Then Goldman got involved and he knew less than Wittman.

Needless to state, it should be one heck of an interesting trial. All the personalities will be in attendance. This writer is looking forward to meeting Albert Scaglione and looking into the "whites of his lies". In fact, we are certain the whole Park West Gallery circus will be there, including the Park West Gallery clown, Bernard Ewell. We'll see if Bob Goldman will be able to keep all his civil litigation balls in the air. Jaye Quadrozzi, another Park West lawyer is certain to fly in on her broom to assist Goldman, though she will be called as a witness as to her defamation of Fine Art Registry - not a good thing for a lawyer to be called as a fact witness in the very same case she is supposed to be advocating for her client. Rodger Young who employs Jaye Quadrozzi was recently reported in the media as the lead lawyer on the case for Park West Gallery. Gee, we wonder what happened to Boy Wonder? Was Goldman recently demoted? Oh, that's right, he was probably sent to the dog house after his "shit" comment about the Park West Gallery art. Ouch! That had to hurt. Rodger Young hasn't attended a single deposition in the case (save one and that was Scaglione's first deposition) - he has been as scarce in his appearances in this litigation as Scaglione has. Sure, Rodger can read the deposition transcripts to try to get up to speed for trial (but it's no substitute for being there in person), especially in a case this complicated - well, good luck with that, Rodger Ramjet. This is a case you won't be able to successfully cram for.

The Fine Art Registry line of witnesses will be grand and will include, for example: Sharon Day (traveling from the UK), Frank Hunter and Nicolas Descharnes coming from New York and Paris, France, respectively. We will also feature eminent world document examiner, William Flynn. This writer and David Phillips will also testify among many, many others who are sacrificing their time to come attend the trial of a lifetime.

There is so much more to be reported to the public and we will continue to do so throughout the trial of this matter. For those interested in attending the upcoming trial please contact for details on dates and times.

Coming Soon. Litigation Update No. 13

Lucky Litigation Update No. 13 will uncover and disclose some scorching and shocking evidence that has just come into Fine Art Registry directly from a Royal Caribbean contact - hard, documented evidence that isn't good for Royal Caribbean's recently filed Motion to Dismiss the nationwide class action litigation. And referring to the Royal Caribbean Motion to Dismiss, since when is Park West Gallery considered a "service" within the meaning of the Royal Caribbean cruise contract? That's a bit of a long stretch, isn't it? Park West Gallery sells goods - NOT SERVICES. And as far as pleading with SPECIFICITY on the class action litigants' RICO claims, there just happens to be plenty of specificity! I bet Royal Caribbean cruise executives will want to boil the source of our information in oil when we are done exposing what we have.

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