{"id":41454,"date":"2021-03-04T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=41454"},"modified":"2021-03-04T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:15:21","slug":"the-serial-swindler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/the-serial-swindler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Serial Swindler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tales-from-the-dark-side.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31277 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tales-from-the-dark-side-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Tales from the dark side\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tales-from-the-dark-side-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tales-from-the-dark-side-448x250.jpg 448w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tales-from-the-dark-side.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The Inigo Philbrick art scandal (here are a couple of our earlier posts on the matter: <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2019\/11\/inigo-philbrick-more-art-world-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inigo Philbrick &#8211; More Art World Greed<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2020\/04\/kenny-schachter-duped-by-inigo-philbrick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenny Schachter Duped by Inigo Philbrick<\/a>) is getting more complex.\u00a0 It now seems that Peter Klimt, a British entrepreneur who created the now defunct Dawnay Day, is claiming that he owns 50% of a Rudolf Stingel painting that many other investors are claiming ownership of. In fact, there are numerous works that Philbrick sold multiple times, including paintings by Basquiat, Wool, and Picasso&#8230; in all, it seems he generated over $20 million.<\/p>\n<p>What I am most interested in, is how our legal system will handle this mess.\u00a0 Philbrick needs to face some serious jail time, and not just a year or two&#8230;\u00a0 decades!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-02-25\/british-property-tycoon-emerges-as-investor-in-alleged-art-scam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Property Tycoon Emerges as Investor in Alleged Art Scam<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inigo Philbrick art scandal (here are a couple of our earlier posts on the matter: Inigo Philbrick &#8211; More Art World Greed,\u00a0 Kenny Schachter Duped by Inigo Philbrick) is getting more complex.\u00a0 It now seems that Peter Klimt, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/the-serial-swindler\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":31277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[389,269],"class_list":["post-41454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-fraud","tag-legal-matters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Serial Swindler - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/the-serial-swindler\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Serial Swindler\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Inigo Philbrick art scandal (here are a couple of our earlier posts on the matter: Inigo Philbrick &#8211; More Art World Greed,\u00a0 Kenny Schachter Duped by Inigo Philbrick) is getting more complex.\u00a0 It now seems that Peter Klimt, a &hellip; More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/the-serial-swindler\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howard.rehs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-04T18:15:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tales-from-the-dark-side.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"315\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Howard L. 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