INDIVIDUAL LICENSEE ISSUES:
Bryan Hammock (Virginia)
LALB meeting date: 7/11/16
Counter-offer on proposed stipulation entailing
Bryan
Hammock,
an auctioneer based in Virginia, discussed. Hammock balked at
the totality of
charges ($2,900 in administrative costs + $1,000
fine, for a total of $3,900)
entailed in the LALB's stipulation agreement.
It may be possible that Hammock
may be short on cash in
having to
defend against this apparent 4/1/16 arrest for 1st offense DWI.
As LAPA Vice President Robert Burns
points out at the end of the video, the LALB his historically never
pursued
EITHER auctioneers OR consumers for administrative
expenses; however, LAPA
has distributed far and wide
auctioneer
Keith Babb's threatening letter to a complainant against him
and LAPA's
handwritten notation that Babb would be hard-pressed
to provide A SINGLE
INSTANCE wherein the LALB has sought
administrative expenses against a
consumer. Burns states that
it's "no coincidence" that the LALB
suddenly has a hard-on
for recovering administrative expenses from the losing
party.
Entailing Burns' comments about the sheer
number of auctioneers
who have lied on their applications, consider
this
episode in which
Barbara Bonnette READILY ADMITS that she lied on her
application
about being disciplined in Texas for conducting an unlicensed
auction
and further admitted that the signature on her application was
forged.
CLICK HERE for past
lies on Jean Vidos (New Orleans Auction Galleries)
application wherein
she said she was not subject to any lawsuits when,
in reality,
Massound Pouratian has sued NOAG
years before entailing
paintings auctioned for six figures that were
fakes and had Christie's
rejections stickers on them when they arrived at
NOAG's facility, yet
NOAG auctioned them anyway.
Also, compelling evidence has surfaced
that former LALB Chairman Tessa Steinkamp may have lied on her
applications
entailing her residency which would have disqualified
her for LALB
membership, much less Chairmanship!
As Burns points out above, the LALB has no
qualms "throwing the book"
at an out-of-state auctioneer while letting
absolutely egregious statute
violations by in-state auctioneers (including
members of the LALB themselves)
get swept under the rug.
LALB Meeting:
May 10, 2016
Auctioneer Bryan Hammock (Virginia) is
cited for allegedly conducting
a Louisiana auction after making falsely
stating on his application
that he was a validly-licensed Virginia
auctioneer.
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