Birmingham art dealer faked lung transplant to rob seniors

For those familiar with the Detroit Art scene the name Halsted Gallery is legendary. Created by the late Tom Halsted over fifty years ago it rose to be a highly respected and renowned local, national, and international purveyor of fine art photographs.

After Halsted's passing his daughter inherited the business and the details of her indictment and arrest tell a sorry story of exploitive greed and stupidity that is sending shockwaves through the art scene. How she thought she could possibly get away with these scams boggles the mind, let alone why she would do it.

https://freep-mi.newsmemory.com?publ...3e478d_1348681

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... How she thought she could possibly get away with these scams boggles the mind, let alone why she would do it....

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Oh what tangled webs we weave.

I don't know if it's relevant in this case but one possible cause of this type of behavior can be the belief that future gambling wins will compensate for past gambling losses. On smaller scales that belief often pays off repeatedly giving the gambler a false sense of security that it will continue to work on arbitrarily large scales. It doesn't.

It fails because eventually even large transactions can't compensate for the casino's small but cumulative edge.

Jimaz is spot on about gambling. Organized gambling [[casinos, sports betting, etc.) is tilted towards the house - that is how they survive. If you play a friendly game of cards with friends there is no house advantage.

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After Halsted's passing his daughter inherited the business and the details of her indictment and arrest tell a sorry story of exploitive greed and stupidity that is sending shockwaves through the art scene.

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She'll probably receive the typical slap on the wrist given for a white-collar crime. Serve her time in a federal country club penitentiary.

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She'll probably receive the typical slap on the wrist given for a white-collar crime. Serve her time in a federal country club penitentiary.

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I've found the federal penalties for certain white collar crimes like fraud, bribery, etc. have gotten much more severe the last several years. Politicians and other crooks apparently don't read the papers though because it certainly hasn't dissuaded the behavior.

Meh a lot of people in the art and antiquities world are grifters anyways,sad that she had to drag her fathers good name through the mud.

A lot of private collections contain looted or stolen art.

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Meh a lot of people in the art and antiquities world are grifters anyways,sad that she had to drag her fathers good name through the mud.

A lot of private collections contain looted or stolen art.

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Still doesn't make it right. Different subject and circumstances, but the same principle applies to Brett Favre stealing money meant for welfare recipients is a classic example and has been swept under the rug and isn't talked about nearly enough. He hasn't even been charged even though he incriminated himself with those texts with the former governor. Greed knows no boundaries.

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...Brett Favre stealing money meant for welfare recipients

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Favre, Bannon, Halsted, Gjonaj, etc. all will be networking, sipping cognac, and smoking Cuban cigars in designer-prison FCI Morgantown WV, better known as “Club Fed” or "camp".

Hello Mudda, hello Fadda,
Here I am at Camp Granada.

But seriously, here's an in-depth story about Viktor Gjonaj:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/...-fraud/671741/

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...But seriously, here's an in-depth story about Viktor Gjonaj:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/...-fraud/671741/

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By 2017, the lottery terminals at Picolo’s were running day and night, printing more than 3.92 million tickets a year, at the rate of one ticket every eight seconds.

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I believe I witnessed one of those events.

At about that time frame I stopped in at Picolo's {23 Mile & Schoenherr} and noticed an employee standing over a printer that was continuously spitting out tickets. I mentioned how unusual it was to see that. I think he just replied that some people really like to play the lottery!

Thanks for the link!

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Still doesn't make it right. Different subject and circumstances, but the same principle applies to Brett Favre stealing money meant for welfare recipients is a classic example and has been swept under the rug and isn't talked about nearly enough. He hasn't even been charged even though he incriminated himself with those texts with the former governor. Greed knows no boundaries.

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Greed has been around for a long time,what seems to be more common place is the level of acceptability or justification.

Her father built a business on reputation and the money followed,she went the other direction and thought like many others the money buys you the reputation.

You see that a lot with generational wealth it becomes all about the money when the patriarch passes on.

Its not about morals or values anymore,it’s about becoming rich no matter what the cost,win the lottery,sue somebody for millions,everybody pushes that unless you are rich money wise you have no value in life.

There used to be goal and aspirations,when you could afford to buy a Cadillac or Mercedes you made it in life,now they are a dime a dozen and you can be driving a Mercedes on welfare.

There is no value on a hard earned dollar anymore,it’s become socially acceptable to become rich at any cost and it is glorified.

But there are always 2 players when it comes to greed and to me anyways both players are equally guilty,that person that paid $300k for a piece of artwork that was worth $800k knew full well something was up,but they still did the purchase.

All of those people that invested with Bernie Madoff were just as greedy as he was,but they were not charged with a crime as he was,they helped perpetuate the crime.

I am not sure but in this case,the 3rd party who originally consigned the art work had insurance that would have covered loss or theft ?

Greed has no boundaries

Aristotle


I know people that were in the business of illegal things,some were making $20 million a month and they stayed with it for years until they were dead or in prison,the only thing it was about was accumulating wealth at any cost,lots of countries you can live like a king with $10 million for life,even $1 million for that matter,but it was always the greed.

Greed begets wealth,wealth begets power,when you figure the Archbishop of England in the 1970s conspired and toppled the king of England simply because the King did not favor the Catholic Church over the state and the Archbishop felt that was a threat to his power and control over that revenue stream,it shows the very institutions that are supposed to be teaching morals and values and opposing greed as means to an end are practicing it themselves.

^Richard as an armchair expert on English history, I am curious to know what Archbishop toppled a King of England? England historically only had 2 Archbishops... Canterbury and York. And neither of them toppled any British King.

Only Edward II [toppled by his Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer], Richard II [toppled by his cousin, later Henry IV], Henry VI [toppled by later Edward IV], Richard III [toppled by later Henry VII], and Charles I [toppled by Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentarians].

I'm unfamiliar with any ecclesiastic intervention against the Crown. In reverse... Henry II's 4 knights murdered Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket in 1170... inspired T. S. Elliott's drama 'Murder in the Cathedral'. And of course during the turbulence of the Tudor era breaking from the Church of Rome to found the Anglican Church, several Bishops found a grizzly end to be burned at the stake, or had their heads lopped off. :eek:

Armchair expert?

Anyone who has studied 1930s history, especially English history, knows that King Edward VIII abdicated his crown for “… the woman I love.” What wasn’t known until recently is the push out the royal door brought about by Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury, head cleric of the Church of England.


https://osidenews.com/2018/07/22/his...oppled-a-king/

Sorry I posted 70s big fingers little screen,but it does not change anything.

As long as you are comfortable in that arm chair you can brush up by watching this documentary on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dRJge_3edIc

Well interestingly enough... the British monarch is the Head of the Church of England [and Defender of the Faith]. So technically he is the boss of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

It was Parliament, specifically Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who nixed the marriage of Edward VIII to Wallis Warfield Simpson in December 1936, so within weeks he abdicated in favor of his younger brother Albert [Duke of York] who became George VI, Elizabeth II father. The Archbishop of Canterbury did of course confirm that it was unacceptable.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury did of course confirm that it was unacceptable.

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Agreed. AFAIK Cosmo Gordon Lang gave a nasty speech after the fact that harmed his own reputation.

How did we get from Wendy Beard to the Archbishop?

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How did we get from Wendy Beard to the Archbishop?

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They both like gambling?

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They both like gambling?

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I had no idea that Anglicans play bingo! Didn't Henry VIII ban it?

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I had no idea that Anglicans play bingo! Didn't Henry VIII ban it?

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Lol. I should have said "lawn bowling", then.