March 2011
3 posts
Guilty!
Rocco DeSimone goes back to jail!
Johnston art dealer guilty of money laundering, mail fraud
Mike McKinney
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal jury found Johnston art dealer Rocco P. DeSimone guilty Wednesday of one count of money laundering and seven counts of mail fraud.
The panel found him not guilty on two of the mail fraud counts.
The prosecution said that DeSimone, 57, fleeced various...
The Art Dealer Whose Con Ultimately Had Very...
I first saw Rocco DeSimone’s name in my ArtDaily Newsletter on Saturday. I was intrigued to read about the Johnston based art dealer who is being charged with fraud. I read the short blurb and realized that the con had nothing to do with forgery or theft. It was about an invention called Drink Stik. Closing arguments for the trail were yesterday and DeSimone’s fate is in a...
Brown Hosts First Lecture of Curator Lecture...
Cameron in a velvet brown jacket, brown corduroy pants, and a graphic button up shirt chatting it up with local artist, Lisa Perez.
Last night kicked off the first of a series of four curator lectures this Spring at the snazzy new Granoff Center. The series is sponsored by Brown and RISD. The first lecture was by Dan Cameron, who is the mastermind behind Prospect New Orleans, an...
