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Cases / Investment funds & advisory

Ernst and Ernst Collectors Gallery

Donald Dean Seybold

ReportedMay 14, 2009
LocationCannon Beach, OR
Amount$3,200,000

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Company / entity
Ernst and Ernst Collectors Gallery
Industry
Art purchase and resale
How investors were recruited
Solicited investors directly through his art gallery businesses.
Pitch & red flags
Claimed buyers for the art were already lined up and that investors would get guaranteed profits on resales; said he would "reinvest the fictitious profits in other art deals to make more money".

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Source

FBI official

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