Maria Gabriela "Gabby" Hashemipour, a Beverly Hills beauty salon owner and Aniko Kaye's good buddy, was sentenced today to five years probation, including nine months in house arrest, for fraudulent charging the credit cards of clients Liv Tyler, Jennifer Aniston, Cher amongst other stars. Hashemipour who changed her name from Maria Perez folowing her arrest in the case, is the owner of Chez Gabriela and ran up more than $300,000 in fraudulent charges.
Hashemipour, 51, pleaded guilty in January in Los Angeles federal court to one count of access device fraud following a Facebook campaign proclaiming her innocence.
"I'm extremely sorry for what I have done," Hashemipour told U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real before her sentence was imposed.
Although prosecutors had asked for 2 1/2 years in prison, the judge sentenced her to probation due to the purported state of her health and to allow her to continue working to repay those she stole from.
In addition to probation and house arrest, Hashemipour was ordered to complete 3,000 hours of community service. A hearing was set for Oct. 17 to determine how much restitution Hashemipour must pay.
Hashemipour was arrested last August at Chez Gabriela Studio by special agents with the U.S. Secret Service.
According to documents Liv Tyler had $214,655 in unauthorized charges placed on her American Express card by Hashemipour during 2009. After realizing the theft, Tyler sent an email to jewelry designer Loree Rodkin, a fellow victim to the tune of $68,000, telling her that Hashemipour "stole a lot of money from me," the memorandum states. Tyler wrote that the rip-off was "completely bonkers" and "very shocking and sad to me since I had been seeing her since I was 18."
Most of the charges were made from Chez Gabriela Studio when the numbers from the credit card were both "skimmed" electronically and entered manually.
Other celebrities stated that in addition to charges for actual services at the studio, unauthorized charges from the studio would appear on their credit cards.
Other victims of the scheme include Anne Hathaway, Melanie Griffith, Penelope Cruz and actor Scott Speedman.
This is not Hashemipour's first dance with the law. She has also been arrested for shoplifting and bad-check writing. She also has seven judgments and liens against her and her property.
Hashemipour has also been providing aid and comfort to Aniko's illegal ways. As previously written in this blog, Aniko has been hiding her beloved Mercedes from the bankruptcy trustee and committed one of many instances of bankruptcy fraud when testifying under oath that the car has been signed over to her friend Eric Guefen. In actuality, she has been hiding the car at Hashemipour's home and Maria has been seen driving the car all over town. Photographic evidence has the car parked at Gabby's La Peer Drive address for several weeks at a time.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Cue the Sobbing Violins!
Continuing our journey from the sublime to the ridiculous, we reach Deutsche Bank's upcoming Motion for Relief of the Automatic Stay (in this case of the foreclosure of Aniko's property on Benedict Canyon Road.) as imposed by the bankruptcy filing. What Aniko (and her attorneys Abbott and Costello) are trying to do through their opposition, is keep the bank from foreclosing on the house on which Aniko has not paid her mortgage for over a year. Aniko swears in her attached declaration that the tenants have not paid their rent but that contradicts her sworn testimony given at the January 11, 2001 meeting of creditors. At that time, Aniko explained that the $5,000 she lent to Realtor Jan Caswell-Pastras came from rents she collected at the very same Benedict Canyon house. Hmmm. Aniko, how many times have I told you that a good liar has to have a good memory? And how is it possible that your esteemed attorneys fail to prevent (or do they fail to notice?) these conflicting testimonies that you give? Hmmm.
As well as blaming Deutsche Bank (which inherited the mortgage from Washington Mutual) for her current mess, she blames the recession and a "perfect storm of financial calamity" which (in summary of all the gobbledygook offered by Attorney Bryan Tyson) should absolve Aniko of any responsibility for her mess and justifies the arrears.
The opposition goes on to infer that,as usual, nothing is Aniko's fault and the additional litigation she is now facing, as well as the pending IRS audit (Aniko apparently owes Uncle Sam several hundreds of thousands of dollars) are all part of a grand conspiracy to destroy her life.
My favorite line of the opposition is, "The foregoing is not intended to cue the sobbing violins...". Don't be ridiculous Bryan, of course it is. The entire opposition smacks of desperation and an attempt to avoid accountability. You've tried this tactic on several other motions in front of this and other courts before and you know that your attempts are fruitless. The Judge has got to be laughing every time you pull this "victim" crap as you are fooling nobody. So why bother throwing darts at the board? Well if the bankruptcy estate is going to be liquidated, then the debtor's attorneys might as well try and get as big a piece of the pie as possible. Right boys?
As well as blaming Deutsche Bank (which inherited the mortgage from Washington Mutual) for her current mess, she blames the recession and a "perfect storm of financial calamity" which (in summary of all the gobbledygook offered by Attorney Bryan Tyson) should absolve Aniko of any responsibility for her mess and justifies the arrears.
"She has been the defendant in a particularly vindictive lawsuit, and even though that suit has been settled at great cost to her, the vindictiveness has spilled over onto the Internet, where she continues to be the target of juvenile, but none the less appalling, efforts at character assassination."Of course what Mr. Tyson is referring to here is this blog. Let me help you here Bryan. She was a defendant because she did unspeakable things as a slumlord, and she settled it, not out of the need to be free of the lawsuit, but because she was about to lose big and be found accountable for perjury at the same time. This blog is not juvenile, but factual and serves as a warning to future targets of her schemes, lies and deceit. Nor does this blog serve as an attempt at character assassination. Her character is self-assassinating through her campaign of slumlord activities, fraud, perjury, tax evasion, lies, deceit and her abuse of others for her self-gain.
The opposition goes on to infer that,as usual, nothing is Aniko's fault and the additional litigation she is now facing, as well as the pending IRS audit (Aniko apparently owes Uncle Sam several hundreds of thousands of dollars) are all part of a grand conspiracy to destroy her life.
My favorite line of the opposition is, "The foregoing is not intended to cue the sobbing violins...". Don't be ridiculous Bryan, of course it is. The entire opposition smacks of desperation and an attempt to avoid accountability. You've tried this tactic on several other motions in front of this and other courts before and you know that your attempts are fruitless. The Judge has got to be laughing every time you pull this "victim" crap as you are fooling nobody. So why bother throwing darts at the board? Well if the bankruptcy estate is going to be liquidated, then the debtor's attorneys might as well try and get as big a piece of the pie as possible. Right boys?
Thursday, February 10, 2011
That's the Way the Mercedes Benz
Another fun day of listening to the fantasy world of Aniko Kaye, this time in a January 11, 2011 meeting of the creditors with respect to her bankruptcy filing. Aniko was in her usual form, displaying selective memory and claiming ailments and offering all kinds of excuses for her questionable performance which I’m sure she’ll also invoke to explain about her conflicting testimony.
She must be scratching her ass though, as she tries to figure out how we found about her new old identity, “Aniko Devenyi”. She procured new identification so that she could open her Wells Fargo and hide money from the US Trustee. She claimed to have a couple of hundred dollars in it but what she doesn’t know, until she reads this, is that we know she deposited $50,000 into the account. Keep scratching Aniko. She also must have been shocked to find out that we knew about her loan to real estate agent, and Ethel Mertz to her Lucy, Jan Caswell-Pastras. Like Ethel, Jan can be counted on to fall into another scheme no matter how many messes Lucy has to “splain”. Aniko explained the loan was necessary to help Jan pay rent. Rent? Really? Who pays rent on their own condo? Jan who just won’t learn a lesson, will obviously keep playing along with Aniko’s schemes until she is also dragged into the abyss.
But today’s pièce de résistance was Aniko trying to explain how she suddenly lost ownership of her beloved 2005 Mercedes Benz CL 600. Anybody who knows Aniko, knows that she loves that car. Apparently she’ll do anything to keep that car including commit perjury (nothing new for this habitual liar), and risk going to jail for bankruptcy fraud. The Trustee was trying to locate the Mercedes, as it is an asset of the bankruptcy estate, and Aniko claimed she doesn't know where it is and that she doesn't own it. When asked who does own it, she offered up her friend, Eric Guefen. When asked about the fact that she had it in the garage at the Roxbury building recently, she claimed she had borrowed it. When asked if she borrowed it from Eric, she said she borrowed it from his mother, Karel Guefen. When asked where the vehicle was when she borrowed it, she claimed it was being kept at Karel's house on North Maple St. in Beverly Hills, but that Karel has now moved and Aniko doesn't know where she moved or where the car is now. She repeated that she sold it to Eric Guefen back in 2008 and gave him the title papers and doesn't know why he didn't register the car in his name. She also confirmed that when she filed for bankruptcy, the car was being kept at Eric Guefen's house, but did not know the address other than it was in the City of Los Angeles. In other words, she didn’t want us to know where the car is parked.
In the meantime, Guefen’s attorney, Peter Weinberger, has called Aniko’s story “nonsense”, and has informed all concerned that his client does not have the vehicle, claims no ownership to the vehicle, and that he only held an unsigned pink slip as collateral. Apparently, Mr. Guefen would like to surrender the pink slip and “wash his hands of everything to do with Aniko”. He has made the pink slip available to the Bankruptcy Trustee.
This woman will never learn. When asked where she currently works, she refused to answer. Her attorney James Dumas, the sociopath’s best friend, chimed in that if she were to reveal her workplace, I would immediately post it on this blog, “which has been very injurious to Aniko”. Get this through your head Dumass; it is not the website that is injurious to Aniko. Aniko is her own worst enemy. Teach her to tell the truth. Then maybe you’ll finally be doing something useful and she’ll stop making you look like an idiot.
In the meantime, I've instructed Counsel to prepare a claim of bankruptcy fraud to the Criminal Enforcement Unit of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees if Aniko does not deliver the car, intact, to John Pringle, the bankruptcy trustee, by February 18, 2011.
She must be scratching her ass though, as she tries to figure out how we found about her new old identity, “Aniko Devenyi”. She procured new identification so that she could open her Wells Fargo and hide money from the US Trustee. She claimed to have a couple of hundred dollars in it but what she doesn’t know, until she reads this, is that we know she deposited $50,000 into the account. Keep scratching Aniko. She also must have been shocked to find out that we knew about her loan to real estate agent, and Ethel Mertz to her Lucy, Jan Caswell-Pastras. Like Ethel, Jan can be counted on to fall into another scheme no matter how many messes Lucy has to “splain”. Aniko explained the loan was necessary to help Jan pay rent. Rent? Really? Who pays rent on their own condo? Jan who just won’t learn a lesson, will obviously keep playing along with Aniko’s schemes until she is also dragged into the abyss.
But today’s pièce de résistance was Aniko trying to explain how she suddenly lost ownership of her beloved 2005 Mercedes Benz CL 600. Anybody who knows Aniko, knows that she loves that car. Apparently she’ll do anything to keep that car including commit perjury (nothing new for this habitual liar), and risk going to jail for bankruptcy fraud. The Trustee was trying to locate the Mercedes, as it is an asset of the bankruptcy estate, and Aniko claimed she doesn't know where it is and that she doesn't own it. When asked who does own it, she offered up her friend, Eric Guefen. When asked about the fact that she had it in the garage at the Roxbury building recently, she claimed she had borrowed it. When asked if she borrowed it from Eric, she said she borrowed it from his mother, Karel Guefen. When asked where the vehicle was when she borrowed it, she claimed it was being kept at Karel's house on North Maple St. in Beverly Hills, but that Karel has now moved and Aniko doesn't know where she moved or where the car is now. She repeated that she sold it to Eric Guefen back in 2008 and gave him the title papers and doesn't know why he didn't register the car in his name. She also confirmed that when she filed for bankruptcy, the car was being kept at Eric Guefen's house, but did not know the address other than it was in the City of Los Angeles. In other words, she didn’t want us to know where the car is parked.
In the meantime, Guefen’s attorney, Peter Weinberger, has called Aniko’s story “nonsense”, and has informed all concerned that his client does not have the vehicle, claims no ownership to the vehicle, and that he only held an unsigned pink slip as collateral. Apparently, Mr. Guefen would like to surrender the pink slip and “wash his hands of everything to do with Aniko”. He has made the pink slip available to the Bankruptcy Trustee.
This woman will never learn. When asked where she currently works, she refused to answer. Her attorney James Dumas, the sociopath’s best friend, chimed in that if she were to reveal her workplace, I would immediately post it on this blog, “which has been very injurious to Aniko”. Get this through your head Dumass; it is not the website that is injurious to Aniko. Aniko is her own worst enemy. Teach her to tell the truth. Then maybe you’ll finally be doing something useful and she’ll stop making you look like an idiot.
In the meantime, I've instructed Counsel to prepare a claim of bankruptcy fraud to the Criminal Enforcement Unit of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees if Aniko does not deliver the car, intact, to John Pringle, the bankruptcy trustee, by February 18, 2011.
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