Update: Here's a scenario...You are a foreigner from say the Middle East somewhere...You really want Obama to win the presidency of the United States...Their laws say you can't bring foreign money into the U.S. to give to the election campaign...So you take a cruise on Royal Caribbean or another cruise line...On the ship there is an art auction...They give you a special credit card so you can pay for any art you buy at the auction...You buy half a million dollars worth of counterfeit art, on the boat, at the art auction, on purpose...You know it is counterfeit...You return home to Abu Dhabi or wherever, pack your bags & move to Michigan...When in Michigan, at your new home, you receive your shipment of brand new counterfeited art...You are expecting this shipment...You take one of the counterfeit prints to an art appraiser who certifies that it is indeed counterfeit...You send the paperwork back to to Park West gallery or wherever, & they issue a refund to your brand new ship credit card that they issued you on the ship...Or they send you a cheque...Or they do a bank transfer to your new locally based Michigan bank account...Now you have half a million dollars, less a little commission fees for this transaction in the States...Now you can give that money to Obama's electoral campaign & noone will know the money came from the Middle East or wherever...Laundry...

   Variation: You move to England, do the same thing, now you have half a million dollars of American money in England that is subject to a big British tax break because you are not actually from England, & the British have a big tax loophole for non-British residents...So, now you have American money in England & you don't have to pay American tax rates...

  & so on...drug money...hooker money...gambling money...all can be laundered using counterfeit art & the refund system...

  Last variation: You can also say the work is valued at significantly less than what you paid on the boat, & get your refund...

  These Park West gallery so-called victims are complicit...The class action lawsuit they are filing against Park West gallery is just a cover-up for the laundering...Why? because the feds are getting close, the feds that aren't party to this organized government ring crime...

  How did the feds get involved in fake art? In Hawaii they seized a pile one day, sold it for $350,000.00 & that is how they got interested in fake art...Even government officials like money...Too bad...It started all in Hawaii, that taste of money from fake art- & guess what, who else lived in Hawaii? Golly gee, what a coincidence, the guy who had piles & piles of money to buy commercials for his electoral campaign...The guy who is sitting now on the biggest oil price driving up scam leak in the history of Lousiana & the world...The guy with the name that sounds like Osama...That guy...The democrat dream boy with the shirt off...& they thought Bush was bad...ho hum, but he's black, so it's ok that he broke the foreign monies laws- all black people must be forgiven all crimes because they are or were slaves or something historically...Like they're the only race to ever suffer...Tokenism, the best intention is the path on the road to hell...Well, it could have been worse...This all could have happened without a trail...But art leaves a nice trail, even if it was just a mule to move money from one country to another, artists have noticed...I am sure all the police officers who run galleries of fake art will have their day in court, not in a good way either...

As a sidebar: confidentially speaking...

1) It is a form of fraud for an artist to sign any photomechanical print ...if the artist is not the printer. On an ethical note, any graven image is questionable. Even the term "original print" is nebulous, whether you carved into a potato & stamped a pile of napkins with the inked engraving, or in Alex Perez's case, signed 20,000 slaughtered tree bits when all he contributed was some trite Chilean art that sold domestically for 300 dollars a pop, work created quickly & without didactic teaching...

2)Caveat Emptor must be reiterated ...First, who buys half a million dollars worth of prints? In this economy? Where is the money coming from? Sorry, but anyone who is dropping half a mill right now on some "Divine Comedy" series of excuse the term crap, is being rather casual with their money & I would question first, why are they being so casual with that amount of money? Is it an art tax writeoff? Laundering? Come on...No one spends that amount of money without checking & re-checking the goods beforehand...Unless they have to launder it in a hurry or they are getting a big art tax writeoff, which sounds likely since England has some tax breaks for art purchases, don't they? If not the case...Then again...I' m sorry, how stupid can you be??? 

3)This whole trial sounds like an FBI sting operation. Is it true that the Hawaii sale of counterfeits by the postal service or whoever government , was so tasty that the government there decided to get into selling art print crap fulltime? Is PWG really just another government held operation at arm's length?

4)Again, is this actually a case of one group in government taking their comrades to task? Perhaps just jealousy that their comrades are making more money than they are by selling this crap?

5)If the name Fine Art registry & Fine art gallery, are so similar, & PWG used to be called Fine Art something or other, is FAR really just another arm of PWG?

6)Why did the lawyer attacking me, an artist, have the same last name as FAR's lawyer in Arizona, who was purportedly defending me?

7)What was the FAR staff member doing in Brazil? Scouting for another Alex Perez for PWG?

8)Is the whole trial just a sham so that real humans don't sue PWG? An insider trial to make it look like the situation has been dealt with?

9) Why would more paperwork concerning multiples be better if California has lost so many trees to supposed brush fires? (instead of the real story, which is they say brush fires but are murdering trees to build ridiculous huge log wood chalet homes or bowling alleys or whatever whim they want with their too much American fed monies, which arrived from the Middle East to support their wannabe President elect choice who was happy to illegally take foreign monies 'cause he decided Bush did it , so he could too...?

10) Why will none of my collectors fill out the FAR ownership transfer request forms on the FAR website? Is it because they don't feel safe telling FAR what they own?

11)How is FAR paying for their court case? & how do they know so much detail about all the crimes involved? Is this a case of mea culpa?