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Art Dealer Sentenced for Selling Fake Warhols | Los Angeles News
Leslie Howard Roberts, a South Florida art dealer, has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for selling counterfeit Andy Warhol artworks. After pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Roberts operated the Miami Fine Art Gallery and falsely claimed his pieces were authentic, even asserting they were sourced from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Carlos Rodriguez Melendez, who falsely authenticated the art, is on probation after pleading guilty last year. This case
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