Posted on 05/22/2019 12:19:45 PM PDT by LibWhacker
I remember on one of those real crime TV shows a guy was putting fake labels on inexpensive bottles. Maybe fake bottles too, not sure.
The surprising thing is no one noticed for a long time. Finally some guy did.
No photo of William “Billy” Holder, just a generic picture of bottles of wine in a rack. Hmm. Anne Arundel county.
We will steal no wine
Before its time
You don’t get to keep stolen goods. Even if you purchased them in good faith. Ask any Pawn Store owner. Is there more to this story?
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“Laubach also wrote on Wine Berserkers: “The maddening thing is that there is a very prominent store in DC that admitted to me and my brother that he had bought our wines from Mr Holder. His resolution was to sell them back to us at his cost.”
Lived in Glen Burnie back in ‘81................Moved to Florida and never looked back.................
Any kin to Eric ‘The Red’ Holder?..................
Mmmm… Baltimore wines...
If you don’t hold it, you don’t own it.
"Would you like to sniff the bottle cap?"
Oh phleese.
Trusting stranger with your booze?
Jail his customers for being a-holes.
And sterilize them, to protect the innocent.
rich people problems....
My nephew collects art, his dad (my brother) was an artist, so one day I’m over at his place and he says “hey I got a new acquisition you need to see it” and it was a Jackson Pollock, actually it was a 24-inch square piece of a Jackson Pollock.
How would you know it was really a Jackson Pollock? I didn’t say anything but... I think he might have been ripped off.
It was a piece of used drop cloth.................
If you’re involved in collecting wine and you just can’t seem to find a place to store it, don’t let others take your wine into their own hands....You store it yourself!!!!!
That's because he's probably directly related to Eric Holder and is therefore “A Holder's Person!” All “Holder's People" have a special “immunity” from having their pictures posted publicly because of the past “inequities of being slaves.”
I saw that....the guy was very clever.....made the labels look old. He even cheated one of the Koch brothers who collected wine.
Another wine storage story in California was equally as sad. This guy became a legend.....known as a bon vivant....ate numerous times at a high end sushi resturant with his illicit profits. He put a estaurant out of business by selling their wines.
In another case, he replaced vintage wines with bottles of two-buck Chuck.
When he was found out, he set fire to the storage facility....rivers of fine wines came pouring out.
Possession of Stolen Property Section 7-104(c)
Under Section 7-104(c)(1) it is illegal for a person to
(1) knowingly, or believing property has likely been stolen,
(2) be in possession of stolen property
(3) when the individual:
• Intentionally or knowingly conceals, uses, or abandons the property in such a way that the property owner is deprived of the property, or
• Acts with the intent to deprive the owner of the property, or
• Conceals, uses, or abandons the property in a manner that the individual knows will likely deprive the owner of the property.
“twist and sniff”
In most cases, no pun intended, I suspect he’d be offered a deal to return the wine in exchange for no prosecution on the stolen property charge. If he has paper showing he bot from the guy who stole the wine, it’s stolen property whether he knows it or not, and is subject to confiscation. But now that he knows it’s stolen...he had better come clean as they say in the old Cagney movies. He’s out the money he spent on buying it; that’s probably the best outcome; maybe he can recover some insurance money. He’s damn lucky he didn’t buy interstate, he could find himself among some very non-understanding authorities.
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