![]() ![]() Iannetti's attorney, Alan Dressler, said his client intends to plead not guilty. Reached by phone Friday, Iannetti referred questions to his attorney but said, "I think it's unfair to have an article before the truth comes out." postal inspectors flew to Italy to secretly record a meeting with an alleged supplier of bogus prints, intercepted and used invisible ink to mark suspected fakes in New York, and posed as buyers and conducted surveillance of Iannetti and his gallery. District Court in San Francisco paint a portrait of a yearslong investigation in which U.S. He also was indicted on seven counts of wire fraud.Īffidavits filed in U.S. Iannetti was indicted on eight counts of mail fraud for allegedly shipping fake Miró prints to collectors in points as far flung as Connecticut and Singapore. But federal prosecutors said the alleged scheme may have dated to at least 1999 and was linked to an international art-fraud ring, in which bogus works were sold in San Francisco as well as in Illinois, Florida and New York. ![]() Iannetti is accused of knowingly selling seven fake Miró prints in amounts ranging from $3,600 to $17,902 from 2005 to 2008. on Sutter Street, was indicted Thursday by a grand jury in San Francisco on charges of wire and mail fraud for allegedly shipping prints that purportedly had been authorized by Miró, the renowned Spanish Catalan painter and sculptor who died in 1983. Pasquale Iannetti, 69, who runs Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Inc. A veteran of San Francisco's art gallery scene in Union Square who fashioned himself as an "authenticator of works" has been indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud charges for allegedly selling fake Joan Miró prints. ![]()
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