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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (19839)	6/15/2002 2:16:51 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>paid 300% over market for trashy Gauguins and got caught for cheating on the 8 1/4% city tax? Too funny<< That's Al Capone all over again (g). Re Kafka - was in Prague few weeks ago. Will post my pictures some time this morning.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (19839)	6/15/2002 6:11:40 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Speaking of art fakes, our Prime Minister is an art faker: herald.co.nz She admits signing paintings done by others and that these were sold at auction for charitable purposes. <Wellington doctor Graham Sharpe says he complained to police about Prime Minister Helen Clark because she was "frivolous" about signing art she did not paint. Speaking today from Brisbane, where he is attending an anaesthetists' conference, Dr Sharpe said he made the complaint after Helen Clark's response to the affair. "There was a comment by a lawyer saying that this may well be against the law and the Prime Minister just attempted to brush it off as something frivolous," Dr Sharpe said. It was an issue of integrity. "I firmly believe that if another member of the public had acted in a similar way they would be in a degree of trouble." Dr Sharpe said that if an art student submitted for an exam a piece of art he or she had not done but had signed, the student would be in trouble. So would a doctor who signed a form that allowed a patient to get a benefit, even if the doctor did not benefit financially from it.... contd... > Mqurice