BIG BABY ORDERED TO COURT: Film at 11:00!

There are two women named Sandra who play pivotal roles in Steven Ingersoll’s life. One of them, Sandra J. Oliver, is a Minnesota woman who helped Ingersoll “fraudulently convey” a building he owned to the Bay City Academy, a charter school he founded and managed from 2010–2015, to avoid paying…

Using a version of the story art fraudsters know as “the naïve seller strategy,” Massachusetts painter Kevin Doyle found his niche — selling fake Basquiat postcards on eBay under the name ‘gentleman_collector.’

“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool” — Mark Twain. David Damante, a resident of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, just formed a “Nonprofit Corporation” in Florida — “Noah’s Ark Ministries”. Damante used the name of a Florida corporation he formed on December 15, 2021 (Pharma-PH…

Well, Michael Moore has officially ditched this year’s Traverse City Film Festival. In a July 22, 2022 email sent to the “Friends of the Film Festival” (full disclosure: I am a “Friend” and former TCFF volunteer), Moore casually dropped the news that he’d chosen his “career” over the eager horde…

“De Groft has a history of being involved with so-called discoveries,” said Levin. “The question that remains is how accurate has his past performance of reattributing works been?” A recent story published in the online version of the salmon pink newspaper formerly owned by Jared Kushner (you figure it out…they…

Maybe it’s my lapsed Catholic guilt, but if I’d been convicted of tax evasion and had my license to practice optometry yanked, I’d keep a low profile. But Steven Ingersoll isn’t afflicted by any guilt…or morality. In January 2022, Ingersoll (shown in the photo above at far right) and his…

AN AFFIRMATIVE MISREPRESENTATION OF FACT? Did Mitten Educational Management make “a misrepresentation or a material omission of fact” its managers knew to be false? The sole Farragut Schoolhouse acquisition document provided by Bay City Academy’s Brian Lynch and Michael Randel to Lake Superior State University’s Charter Schools Office concealed the…

Here’s a stunner: after Michigan taxpayers paid off Steven Ingersoll’s mortgage on a building located at 301 N. Farragut Street, the Bay City Academy bought it (with taxpayer money) for $1.1 million. The building houses the Bay City Academy, a charter school founded in 2012 by Ingersoll. ALLEGATIONS: From on…