{"id":19067,"date":"2020-08-05T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19067"},"modified":"2020-08-05T06:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:30:02","slug":"national-book-auctions-david-hall-pled-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19067","title":{"rendered":"National Book Auction’s David Hall Pled Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new National Book Auction\/Worth Auctions notice came in via email, and it made me wonder what happened to the legal case against owner David Hall for defrauding a consignee. It turns out he pled guilty back in February<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Local auctioneer David Hall was again in court on Monday to accept a plea for cheating a Tompkins County man out of $227,000.<\/p>\n

Hall, a resident of Spencer, plead guilty to second-degree Grand Larceny, a class C felony, for taking items on consignment valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars and not paying out the proceeds to the consigner after the items sold at auction.<\/p>\n

The victim in the most recent case, as part of a saga of lawsuits brought against the auctioneer for defrauding customers, consigned thousands of his late brother’s items to Hall’s Freeville-based company Worth Auctions and National Book Auctions back in Feb. 2017.<\/p>\n

Hall was indicted on the second-degree grand larceny charge in August. Though there are sales records from auctions throughout the spring and summer of 2017, Hall allegedly only ever paid out the seller $50,000 of the $325,000 he made selling the items. As part of the plea, Hall must pay full restitution in the sum of $227,100 to the victim.<\/p>\n

Hall faces a heavy financial penalty, as well as possible jail time. Grand Larceny in the second degree carries a maximum possible period of incarceration of 15 years. Hall is due for sentencing in Tompkins County Court on April 2, at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

In May, Hall was ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution after it was found that he had defrauded more than 100 consumers since 2015 following a case prosecuted by the New York Attorney General’s Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I cannot find any update on sentencing. Maybe that’s another thing delayed due to the Wuhan coronavirus…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new National Book Auction\/Worth Auctions notice came in via email, and it made me wonder what happened to the legal case against owner David Hall for defrauding a consignee. It turns out he pled guilty back in February: Local auctioneer David Hall was again in court on Monday to accept a plea for cheating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,35],"tags":[436,1973,2439,1976,2341,2133],"class_list":["post-19067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-crime","tag-book-auction","tag-books","tag-coronavirus","tag-crime","tag-david-hall","tag-national-book-auctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19074,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions\/19074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}