INDIVIDUAL LICENSEE ISSUES:
New
Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG)
Pre-Bankruptcy
of April 1, 2011
March 19, 2012:
LALB Meeting:
3/19/12
LALB Attorney Anna Dow drafted
this stipulation
agreement for Jean Vidos; however, the LALB immediately rejects it
out-of-hand
and proposes Ms. Vidos be called in for a hearing at a future
date.
0:20 - 1:03 Anna Dow goes
on record as stating NOAG wrote NSF checks on its consignor escrow account and
that
consignors were not paid timely.
1:03
- 1:09 Dow states "a number of complaints were filed with the office and
all those were taken care of as I understand."
Wonder if
Massoud Pouratian,
who bid
$114,000
on paintings which left NOAG with Christie's
rejection stickers on them would concur?
Wonder if
Danny Pun, who bid
$85,000
on a fake Chicken Blood Stone on the LAST auction NOAG conducted before filing
bankruptcy (Jan. 2011) would concur?
Just asking!!!
2:40 - 3:17 LAPA Vice President Robert
Burns voices pleasure with the fact that the items he brought up at the
November 15, 2011 discussion of NOAG
are finally going to be addressed via a future hearing entailing NOAG officials
and Jean Vidos.
3:18 - 3:24
Anna Dow brushes off the
Pouratian and Pun complaints referenced above as merely "purchasers
who didn't understand what they were buying."
That's sure
ONE way to categorize it all right!!!!!
How's that for a soft pedal?
3:38 - 7:32
Former LALB Executive Director
Sherrie Wilks, LAPA President Rev. Freddie Phillips,
and Board Member Darlene Jacobs all express bafflement
at how Jean Vidos license has been declared null
(Dow later relayed, after conferring with Greg Bordelon, they made the decision
to DENY Vidos' 2012 renewal)
and yet NOAG can be
operating with no auctioneer held accountable.
O. K. The above audio file is quite interesting and revealing; however, there's nothing like a video file!!!! Why can't LAPA provide a video file? Simple. At the outset of the meeting, Tessa Steinkamp, LALB Chairman, and who served as Vice President, Director, and Treasurer of NOAG up until 11 days before bankruptcy, in coordination with all LALB Members (with the exception of Hal McMillin) ordered a video blackout by denying the mere use of an electrical outlet as depicted below:
LALB Chairman Tessa Steinkamp and crew
mandate
VIDEO BLACKOUT at 3/19/12 LALB Meeting
O. K. Does the above video depict a regulatory body interested in transparency and openness, or what???????
September 17, 2012:
LALB Meeting:
9/17/12
LALB Attorney Anna Dow: "Ms. Vidos is not
sure she wants a hearing."
November 5, 2012:
LALB Meeting:
11/05/12
Jean Vidos (former NOAG owner) discussion. The LALB seems focused
ONLY on potential renewals
for Ms. Vidos in LA and consistently seems
OBLIVIOUS to formally disciplining Ms. Vidos for all of the
problems which
transpired at NOAG. In doing so, if Ms. Vidos applies for a license in another state,
she can TRUTHFULLY answer "No" regarding any
application question of being disciplined in
another state!!
O. K. The first audio link above indicates a clear intent on the part of the LALB to schedule a hearing to investigate all of the problems of NOAG and those responsible for it and/or covering it up, right? Did they? Of course not!! Instead, all the LALB opted to focus on was this hearing entailing LAPA Vice President Robert Burns for exposing so many of the problems of NOAG and forcing the LALB as a body to at least acknowledge them!!!!!
As a result of the preceding episodes
entailing NOAG (Pre-Bankruptcy)
along with numerous other observations
LAPA Vice President Robert Burns
made regarding the LALB, Burns produced the
preceding video on November 3, 2012
DIRECTLY
comparing the LALB with the Mafia!
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