A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty on May 29 and sold to Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and other famous artists.
Reading, 77, of Carter Reese, is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud on allegedly active in an accused art forgery program between February 2019 and March 2021, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Haring, Fernand Léger and Francis Bacon, which includes eight or nine-digit auction records.
this Philadelphia Inquirer The report said that Harvard-educated Rees worked as a teacher in fine arts and history at Porterstown Hill School and later served as director of admissions. (The article adds that Reese and his wife were with Taylor Swift on Wyomissing with Taylor Swift before moving to Nashville.) He is an avid antique collector, with the collections containing about 17,000 toys, oriental rugs and furniture, among others. In court documents, he claimed the total value of the collection was over $6 million.
A joint FBI investigation in Philadelphia and Miami found fake plans and is prosecuting U.S. Attorneys Ruth Mandelbaum and Jason Grenell. Rees is scheduled to be sentenced on September 12 and faces 40 years in prison.
