Well that escalated quickly 
You ain’t heard the half of it, but I will follow the Jackie Mason approach - I won’t mix in.
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well, from a quick google, my foot is definitely in the camp without criminal convictions for very, very bad things. However, I will spectate.
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A truly shocking set of results
The old adage is correct - No good deed goes unpunished. My post was an update on the Bordeaux Cellars case, which debuted on these pages in 2020. It appears that the case may finally go to trial.
Mr. Lazar’s comment that he is a sideshow is correct. He apparently takes umbrage at the fact that I found ironic and humorous Mark Golodetz’s follow-up comment to my post with a copy of the New York Times article that included a large photo of Marc Lazar and Mark {Golodetz’s] statement that there are “apparently legitimate” ways to obtain a collateralized wine loan.
Marc is a convicted felon (sex offender), who sold and brokered wines for Rudy Kurniawan from 2007 to 2012. This was long after Rudy had been exposed as a seller of counterfeit wines in April of 2008. The conduct included serving as a front man for Rudy’s wines that were consigned for sale to Acker auctions – which Acker knew about while John Kapon publicly claimed that he had not done any business with Rudy since 2009. Mr. Lazar, after purchasing LLK storage from Acker in 2011, moved Rudy’s wines from the LLK warehouse in New York (where Kapon had continued to store them) to the Domaine St. Louis storage facility, where they remained from 2011 until at least 2016.
Mr. Lazar sold wine without a license in Missouri and he failed to collect sales taxes on that wine, for which he was charged with two felony counts. But the case never went to trial after one of the two arresting officers, who was working undercover during civil disturbances in St. Louis, was badly beaten by other St. Louis police officers. This resulted in permanent disability for the officer, a civil lawsuit by the officer against the City, and criminal charges against the police officers who engaged in the beating. The City of St. Louis dropped the prosecution of all of the pending criminal cases of the two arresting officers, including the case against Marc Lazar. Mr. Lazar also offered collateralized wine loans on his Domaine website, and acted as loan broker for such loans, for which he did not have the required Missouri licensing.
So perhaps that better explains why I found the reference to Marc Lazar as an “apparently legitimate” way to obtain a collateralized wine loan to be ironic and humorous.
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Pretty even-handed post.
So it fair to assume we are talking about the Marc Lazar who was convicted of raping a 13 year old girl in St Louis?
Mikko:
Yes, but to be precise, Marc was convicted of first degree statutory sodomy and first degree statutory rape of a 13 year old girl. At the time Mr. Lazar was 26.
So just to rehash what kind of person we are talking about here, from Google:
" First-Degree Statutory Sodomy: This involves engaging in deviate sexual intercourse with someone less than 14 years old."
" “Deviate sexual intercourse” is defined in Missouri law as various sexual acts, including those involving the genitals, mouth, or anus, or penetration with objects, done with sexual intent or to terrorize the victim."
Do you come out of retirement to comment on WB? Do you also come out of retirement to rape 13yo girls?
jfc
@ToddFrench Is this a real edit?
only on every other Tuesday.
Thats all anyone needs to know about you.
Rapist and a pedophile.
Most people like you lay low and hope people forget about it all. Clearly not you.
Pretty flippant under the circumstances.
Really. He’s probably right most of the people posting, of which there were few, didn’t read the article. Then there are the hundreds of times as many people who have been reading or will read this thread, and he brings his name into the spotlight.
im only flippant on Wednesdays actually.
But you are a convicted felon every day of the week.
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This is gotten way out of hand, I’m going to close it for now, will reopen it when the free-for-all name-calling ceases
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