A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Defendant Michael Barzman, 45, of North Hollywood, was charged Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles with making false statements to the FBI during an interview last year, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release. He has agreed to plead guilty and faces up to five years in prison. Barzman admitted to the FBI - after repeated denials in interviews with federal agents, leading to Tuesday's felony charge - that he made a false provenance for the paintings by claiming in a notarized document that they had been found in television writer Thad Mumford's storage locker.
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