EMBARRASSMENT INDEX
FOR THE LOUISIANA AUCTIONEER'S
LICENSING BOARD (LALB)
BY BOARD MEMBER
TESSA STEINKAMP
(Chairman)
LAPA began audiotaping and videotaping LALB meetings on August 2, 2010. Accordingly, LAPA has no recorded evidence of embarrassments before that date.
Board Member TESSA STEINKAMP (Chairman) has served on the LALB from: 1997 to April 20, 2016.
November 5, 2014
Upon finding out that Brant Thompson,
son of Louisiana State Senator Francis
Thompson (D-Delhi), succeeded
in obtaining a bond payment for his alleged losses entailing
deceased
auctioneer Bruce Miller, Judy Fasola expresses her frustrations with the LALB.
Those frustrations entail
Ms. Fasola asserting that she was victimized by
notoriously-problematic auctioneer Ken Buhler and his father, Mac.
Specifically, Ms. Fasola was frustrated that LALB attorney Anna Dow, after having her jump through all of the
hoops to file
a bond claim, reversed course and refused to file a
claim for her. During her presentation, Ms. Fasola managed
to catch the
LALB members in one contradiction after another as evidenced by the
historical
LALB video excerpts merged into the above video clip.
At the 6:20 mark,
Chairman Steinkamp EXPLODES at Ms.
Fasola when Fasola expressed concerns for
her safety entailing auctioneer Ken Buhler. Only six days after the
above hearing, Ken Buhler faced a court hearing entailing
domestic abuse charges filed by his
wife.
Near the end of the video, Ms. Fasola exposes the fact that
Chairman Steinkamp was not even aware that board
attorney Anna Dow had given
her guidance on what acts to conduct for the LALB to file a bond claim
on her
behalf, only to reverse course and relay the LALB would file no bond claim for
her.
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January 15, 2014
After arriving 15 minutes late to
begin the meeting, LALB Chairman Tessa Steinkamp
makes a complete fool of herself (not an
infrequent occurrence) in taking a VERY, VERY hostile attitude to LAPA
President Rev. Freddie Lee Phillips before he even says a word!
Rev.
Phillips also seeks to address the issue that the
December 9, 2013 Louisiana Inspector General Report
entailing LALB
payroll irregularities is NOT on the agenda,
nor is the hiring of the law firm Shows Cali
despite the
fact that the LALB has now been employing the firm for nearly
three (3) months as of the date of this meeting
(the LALB didn't have
the hiring of the firm on its November 5, 2013 agenda either despite the firm
having gone to work
performing LALB legal work in October of 2013).
Convicted felon
attorney Larry S. Bankston, the second of
three attorneys hired by the LALB,
tells Rev. Phillips to "take your concerns
up with the Legislature."
March 5, 2013
LALB Chairman Tessa Steinkamp continues a
long and consistent pattern of openly displaying her
disdain toward
LAPA President Rev. Freddie Phillips
July 18, 2011
LAPA President Rev. Freddie
Phillips
threatened with
"disciplinary action against your license" prior to bringing
up concerns he had regarding LALB Chairman Tessa
Steinkamp's
failure to alert the LALB regarding auction law
violations at her employer,
New Orleans Auction Galleries
(NOAG). Steinkamp served as "Vice President,
Director,
and Treasurer" of NOAG immediately prior to its
bankruptcy of
4/1/11, at which time it was
learned that NOAG had over
$600,000 in unpaid
consignors and
was paying company operating expenses
with consignor escrowed funds.
August 2, 2010
LALB Chairman Steinkamp expresses her disdain
for LAPA President Rev. Phillips
by stating why she feels he should not be a
board representative
at a national auctioneer conference.
Audience member (and then-auctioneer)
Nell Stuard voices displeasure
at the "character bashing" of LAPA President
Rev. Freddie Phillips and names
LALB Chairman Steinkamp as a chief culprit
engaging in that character bashing.
Then-Vice Chairman Steinkamp insists LAPA
Vice President Robert Burns needs to resign
from the LALB as she states he is
engaging in too much "bickering." Ms. Steinkamp made her remarks
after
Burns' made public his strong
opposition to shill bidding, his (along with LAPA President Rev. Freddie Lee
Phillips)
exposing of
travel voucher
irregularities, and what be believed at the time (and was
subsequently
confirmed by the Louisiana Inspector General's Office) to be
LALB payroll fraud.
Burns would also
later make public Ms. Steinkamp's
active concealment of blatant
auction statute violations at her employer, NOAG.
Those auction statute
violations included nearly $600,000 in unpaid consignors at the time NOAG filed
bankruptcy on 4/1/11,
NOAG paying company operating expenses out of escrowed
funds, and fake paintings being auctioned for six-figure
amounts to
unsuspecting victims. Ms. Steinkamp served as "Vice President, Treasurer,
and Director" of NOAG right
up to 11 days prior to it filing bankruptcy (and
was rehired soon after the bankruptcy filing).
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