Everything Park West Gallery Doesn't Want You to Know About the Michigan Attorney General's Office:

And Its Consumer Complaint Division - A Preview of What's Coming Soon!

About a year or so ago, Fine Art Registry® reported that we had received a response to a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act Request) from the Michigan Attorney General's Office which ultimately resulted in Fine Art Registry receiving hundreds of pages of complaints of fraud and deceptive and unfair trade practices reported against Park West Gallery and its representatives. Since Park West Gallery continues to refuse to do what is right and since we continue to receive complaint after complaint after complaint of its fraudulent and deceptive trade practices, we thought now would be an excellent time to expose what we have uncovered at the Michigan Attorney General's Office--Consumer Protection Division.

It is important to note that in the documents we received from the Michigan AG's Office, there are a number of complaints that pre-date any reporting on Park West Gallery by Fine Art Registry, though representatives of Park West Gallery, and its CEO Albert Scaglione, have consistently lied to the public and on the witness stand, falsely representing that never before had they faced complaints of fraud from consumers until Fine Art Registry came along, and that they have (or had) 1.3 gazillion "satisfied" customers. Really? The evidence we received clearly shows that many people had filed complaints with the Consumer Complaint Division of the Michigan Attorney General's Office long before Fine Art Registry reported on Park West Gallery's deceptive and unfair trade practices which we began publishing generally in May 2007. Additionally, many complaints against Park West Gallery had been filed with ripoffreport.com, dating back to 2004, as well complaints on dozens of other web sites and on in cruise ship forums as we abundantly proved at trial in 2010, which resulted in a unanimous jury verdict for Fine Art Registry and an award to us of $500,000.00.

So, to kick off this series of articles on all of the ugly truth about Park West Gallery's Consumer Protection Complaints, we publish a letter written to former Attorney General Mike Cox, Consumer Protection Division in Lansing, Michigan, authored by Mark Whitehouse, Whitehouse & Blakely, Greensboro, North Carolina, and dated January 16 2006, a full year and a half before Fine Art Registry published even single word about Park West Gallery, yet nearly six years later, the lies, and deceptive and unfair trade practices continue--at least for now, anyway, until law enforcement puts a stop to it once and for all.

The letter is posted below in its entirety:

Stay tuned. We will be bringing you much, much more on all of the shocking documents from the Michigan's AG's Office soon. Remember, Park West Gallery is currently set to go to trial soon--very, very soon, and we expect that the Park West Gallery principals will have a very hard time keeping all their lies straight. Yes, Park West Gallery victims, Sharon Day and Julian Howard, Mike and Maria Vallillo, Martha Szostak and Heidi Rice, will finally, after three long years of absolute hell and anguish, have their day in court. We will keep all of our members and readers posted on the scheduling of the upcoming litigation as we have had many interested individuals that have contacted us wishing to know the trial date so they can book their flights in advance in order to attend the trial. Don't worry, we will be sure to give everyone as much advance notice as possible.

— by Fine Art Registry®  |  November 29, 2011

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