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REBUTAL LETTER TO DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER & BUSINESS AFFAIRS
AFTER PUBLIC STORAGE BLATANTLY LIES TO COVER YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL AUCTION
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6-23-15
Mr. Anthony Wai
Los Angeles County Consumer & Business Affairs
500 W. Temple St, Room B-96
Los Angeles, CA 90012-2706

Dear Anthony,
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to rebut this non sequitur self serving excuse from Public Storage. After reading their letter, I realized we were dealing with yet another sub-manager within Public Storage who I personally have never heard of before, nor have I ever had contact with him at Public Storage; yet he is claiming he’s telling you facts about me that are blatantly false, and he apparently knows absolutely nothing about the actual facts of the situation, or more likely, considering how blatantly wrong his so called facts actually are, is just shamelessly lying to you as he attempts to wordsmith Public Storage’s statement in an attempt to cover up their illegal and blatantly predatory policies and illegal business practices. Once again, this is what I have come to expect from Public Storage and just goes to show their lack of integrity and ethics, and shows the total contempt all the faceless employees at Public Storage seem to show for their customers.

First off, I’ve been a Photographer / Artist since I was in Jr. High. I was forced to put my entire live /work studio in storage after a VC group defaulted on a contract to fund an Art Based reality show I have created, and have a cable commitment to air.   I had given up the lease on my smaller studio and had a lease in my hand for a bigger place to shoot the series. But at the last minute, when the VC group didn’t come up with the funding, and I had given up my old lease, I had to put my entire studio (A live/work studio) in storage while I looked elsewhere for the funding to do the show. The VC guys left me in a bad spot and I've been struggling everyday since to get back on my feet. Just a few months before, I had been back in school for almost two years, learning to do photo realistic 3D to blend with my multimedia artwork. And I had built a big computer to do 3D that cost a fortune as well. (This was also in storage at PS) And I did that all on my own dime, so I was very low on personal funds at that point. But I had several big projects I was pushing after school was over and the reality show is the one that everyone loved.

I picked public storage because they had a $1 dollar for the first month move in and I just assumed because they were in the arts district it would be a safe place to store in. I took the biggest space they had. 40 plus years of my life was in there. Little did I know Public Storage would be the predators I would have to deal with.   And Dale Washington had a few things to say about their fuzzy math on that first month one dollar special as well. So apparently, I started getting screwed by Public Storage from moment one!

At the time of the illegal auctioning of all my belongings on March 17th, I had no working phone, and I had no current living address, and the District Manager, Margaret Sommers, the one and only person that had contacted me via email was the only person I was dealing with. And that contact was all via email. Margaret Sommers very well knew I didn’t have a working phone because I told her that via email in December 14th- 15th 2014 and can be verified in the email logs I have sent you. Margaret Sommers was also informed that the address Public Storage was mailing auction notices to, was an old address I had moved out of. I told them that fact the day I signed up and moved in as well!

Margaret Sommers was told the address was wrong in December 2014, because she actually asked me if it was correct. And again, I informed her at that time, via email in December 2014, it was not a correct address and was in fact my old address I moved out of. I requested all auction notices be emailed to me. And I told Margaret Sommers that I had no current mailing address or phone number. She knew my situation. So why did she blatantly ignore those facts in March???   Alzheimer’s ?    A head injury?   Because it was convenient? Or because they have no ethics? I say the ladder is true.

Margaret Sommers had contacted me via email to “REMIND” me they were auctioning off my belongings on December 18th 2014. I was literally 18 days late at that point. But her email just days before was the first notice I had gotten about any auction. And considering all the back rent had been paid, I assumed she was just mistaken. But she was dead serious. I kid you not, sir. I owed for that month alone. 18 days at that auction point!! And they actually did auction off my unit on December 18th, 2014. This is a great example of exactly what their predatory self serving fuzzy math is allowing them to do! Eighteen days late and they thought it was okay to auction all my belongings? I’ll be damned if this isn’t wrong on so many levels! They literally put me through a mental hell with that first auction alone!

Then after the auction, Margaret Sommers told me that the auction was on contingency and they decided they would give me until the end of the month to pay. How magnanimous of them, huh? That’s when I started to castigate her and Public Storage for doing what they did! They put me through a mental hell! Had I had the means to do so, I would have taken my belongings out right then! But I was not in a financial position to do so.

So to easily disprove a few points Phillip Cannon is falsely asserting, let’s start with the first time Public Storage actually auctioned off my unit in December, shall we?   As I mentioned, I had paid all my past due, but they still acted like they had the right to ignore that fact because I had paid the past due after the first, rather than the day before, on the 30th. This is how they are getting away with destroying people’s lives! They have literally made up their own non sequitur fuzzy math and say their contract makes it legal. This is a despicable, shameless and totally predatory business practice and needs to be called out by the FTC for being blatantly unethical!

Phillip Cannon asserts that Public Storage was left with no “choice” but to auction off all my belongings on March 17th 2015. Really? Well first off, please ask Phillip to explain what Public Storage’s motivation was on the first auction on December, 18th, when all the past due had been paid? Did they have no “choice” but to auction my unit at that time as well? Saying they had no choice is just pure bullshit! They do have a choice. They do this because they think they can get away with it. They do this because the FTC and local prosecutors are letting them get away with it. They do this because they claim according to their contract, they can, and because they want to! Not because they are compelled to!!! There was absolutely nothing compelling them to auction my belongings except their own predatory business practices and their blatant corporate greed.

Again, Phillip Cannon stated as fact in his Public Storages letter to you that I owed 3 months rent at the time of the auction. This is just another blatant lie! A fictional tale Public Storage is spinning for you to try and justify this illegal auction. I was a month and a half over due at the time of the auction.   And in the same sentence Phillip is telling you I owed 3 months rent, he shows you a figure that represents the two months rent I actually owed. Phillip Cannon has tried to make it sound like I had not made a payment since 2014, saying I haven’t had a zero balance since December. Trying to make it sound like I had not paid in more than 3 months and I had abandoned my property and they just had no choice. But he fails to mention, and the payment records will clearly show, that a payment was made just 35 days before that auction. These people are just despicable and have literally tried to justify what they have done to me with blatant lies to you and your agency.

Phillip Cannon also asserts that they contacted me via phone multiple times and I made multiple promises to them to pay. Really? At what phone number? Again, referring back to my emails to Margaret Sommers in December 2014, (14th-15th); I informed her at that time that I did not currently have a phone. And I did not get a phone until after that March auction. And that was a free phone service I had to apply for. So how could Public Storage have called me and gotten promises from me when I had no phone for them to call in that time period? Maybe they can explain that to you? This was blatantly made up by Public Storage! Total fiction, again to help support their story that I was somehow notified about the auction! Absolutely not true! A totally fabricated mendacity! I got an email on Sunday, March the 15th again, “REMINDING” me they were auctioning off my unit on Tuesday the 17th if I couldn’t pay by Monday the 16th. That email just days before was my first and only notice about the March 17th auction. So Phillip Cannon’s assertion that I had ample notice, is just absolutely untrue and just more pure bullshit from Public Storage! I found out on the 15th that they were going to auction my belongings on the 17th. That is not ample notice!

Margaret Sommers very well knew the address Public Storage was mailing auction notices to for that March auction, was not a valid address for me because I had informed her of that in an email MONTHS before in December. But apparently, she just didn’t care and then just kept sending them to the same old address as if that was okay. Does the FTC think that’s okay? And when she contacted me about the march auction, she never once mention the mailed notices when I protested her two day email notice because she knew we had discussed that months earlier. She knew very well Public Storage was sending notices to a invalid address but ignored that fact.

Margaret Sommers could have emailed me the auction notice as I requested in the December email, but she didn’t. Her two day email “REMINDER” was fine with her, but apparently emailing me the actual auction notices when it first went out was too difficult? She is a district manager and she had an obligation to make sure she was doing everything properly. But she blatantly, willfully and I think spitefully didn’t. I was struggling and she knew that and I think took advantage of that fact. And I truly believe it was my reaction to that ridiculous first auction she is spiteful about. She didn’t like being castigated by me for what she and Public Storage had unjustly put me through with their “Mock Auction” in December, so she got even with the next auction. I think it was malicious and purposeful and blatantly illegal. And as Phillip Cannon mentioned, they have a “choice”. And they choose to not care about their customers or the facts, and just do the wrong thing for their convenience and their own personal gain or ego without any conscience about what they do to innocent people.

40 years of my copyrighted Photography and art work is gone! Stolen by Public Storage! These corporate thieves have destroyed my life and my career. Ten’s of thousands of negatives, transparencies and my own custom prints are just gone. All my tear sheets of ads, magazine covers, everything I’ve ever accomplished as a photographer is gone because of pure corporate greed! I have nothing physical to show for 40 years of being an artist! They have wiped it out! Dozens of my paintings from the 80’s to now are gone. All my studio, darkroom, lighting equipment, three computers, my scanner, my printer, my entire business is just gone. All my cameras. All my portfolios of all my work is gone!! My power tools, my telescopes, my camping equipment. Not to mention everything personal that I had left from my family and childhood. I struggled for 40 plus years for everything I had! And they wiped it out like it was nothing! Because it’s nothing to them! I was a month and a half late! That’s all!! And they won’t even tell me who bought my unit so I can try to get my copyrighted work back! Public Storage is despicable and reprehensible and a totally self serving conglomerate of conscienceless corporate thieves!

This 550 million dollar a year company has destroyed my life and they want to claim it was just something they had to do? That they just had no choice? What total bullshit! There was absolutely nothing compelling them to rape my entire life away except their own predatory policies of pure corporate greed. As Phillip Cannon made clear, they do have a choice. But they seem to always choose to do the wrong thing and then try to bury the actual facts with lies, double talk and their own non sequitur fuzzy math that the FTC needs to stop.

This just can’t be happening to people and it’s happening all over. The FTC needs to act now! My case is far from being an anomaly. I may be louder then some, but I am far from alone . This is Public Storage’s reputation all over the internet. So many people Public Storage has hurt have contacted me since my web site about them went up. Their predatory business practices need to be stopped immediately. The FTC needs to take action before this happens to someone else. And I guarantee you it will be happening to someone else tomorrow unless you help stop it today!

-David Goldner

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Margaret Sommers, Public Storage's
"Corporate Cunt of the Year"

Raping their customers on a daily basis has become a tradition for Public Storage who seems to be very proud of their sleazy reputation since they refuse to stop their disgustingly immoral and in most cases totally illegal business practices. And District Manager, Margaret Sommers is a fine example of the kind of criminal minded corporate whore it takes for this shameful position in Ronald L. Havner Jr.’s thieving immoral empire of sleazy self serving corporate scumbags.

“Cunt” isn’t a word I use very often, if at all, but in this case, I make an exception because Margaret Sommers is the epitome of what I think a cunt really is. Margaret Sommers is a plastic, self serving, uncaring, unethical, malicious, conscienceless thief, who has devastated my life without thinking twice. Public Storage’s sleazy district minion, Margaret Sommers, is a calculating corporate scumbag who works for a company of calculating corporate scumbags who rape their clients of everything they cherish and just don’t give a damn about anything but their own bottom line. 40 years of my life is gone for absolutely no reason accept for Public Storages policies of pure corporate greed and their malicious contempt for their own customers.

Margaret Sommers and Public Storage have illegally destroyed my business and my life and I have promised them they are going to pay dearly for what they have done to me! They have wiped out my entire career as an artist! 40 plus years of my life is just gone! Illegally stolen by the disgusting corporate maggots like District Manager Margaret Sommers, who rapes her customers in the name of Public Storage, like she and Ronald L. Havner Jr. have raped me.

Two Days notice... That’s what Margaret gave me in an email that Public Storage was auctioning off everything I owned in my life because I was a month and a half late! Two days notice! My last payment was just 35 days before that auction. Margaret also knows that she was mailing notices to the old address I had moved out of before storing my belongings at Public Storage. She knows this because several months before that, they “mock auctioned” my unit when I was literally only 18 days late on the rent! 18 days, I kid you not!! She told me then, they were mailing notices to that old address and I informed her right then in an email my attorney now has a copy of, that she was sending notice to the old address I moved out of. Something I also informed them when I first moved in Public Storage!!! Margaret knew I had no current address and she didn’t care. In fact, she took advantage of that fact and that’s pretty disgusting! One more reason she’s the cunt of the year.

Margaret Sommers is a criminal minded corporate thief! She very well knew she was mailing auction notices to my old address and she didn’t care. Do you think a jury will care, Margaret? Because I do have the emails to prove that you knew exactly what you were doing! You waited until the last minute to inform me by email that they were auctioning my life away in two days! You knew the notices you were sending were going nowhere. That’s why you never even mentioned them when I was angry about the two days notice. You were very calculating. But I notice things like that. This was a malicious and premeditated robbery of everything I own, you slithering pile of shit! Nothing less! You are a fucking sleazy self serving corporate thief, Margaret! A calculating thieving corporate whore and I will prove that in court! That was an illegal auction and it ruined my life! You had no right, you sleazy self important bitch! You had no right!

Public Storage and the “Corporate Cunt of the Year”, Margaret Sommers have destroyed my life and she and Public Storage “consider the matter closed.” That’s why she’s a Corporate Cunt! Someone who likes the power of being able to destroy someone else’s life, and then tell them: “the matter is closed”. I got news for you, you scum of the earth corporate maggot … It’s just getting started because you’ve left me with nothing else! And after all, you are “The Cunt of the Year”! So I’m celebrating that fact and going to share it with the world. Aren’t you proud, you sleazy pathetic self serving corporate whore? Did you get a bonus to ruin my life? Or does doing this kind of thing to your customers just get you off? Because you did it to me twice! Well, at least you can look forward to being Public Storage’s “Cunt of the Year”!

You see all these images above? Everything you see there and this is just a fraction of the work you stole from me, is now just GONE because of you, you sleazy pile of shit! You self serving corporate scumbags have wiped out my life as an artist!! All my portfolios, GONE!! All my tear sheets; 40 years of my published work, GONE! All my negative and transparencies, 10's of thousands, GONE! I have no record of the last 40 years of my life as an artist anymore! All my original paintings, GONE! And all of it copyrighted so no one else can publish any of it. So why the fuck haven’t they given it back? All the equipment it took me a life time to accumulate in order to run a studio, GONE! Do you understand what you have done to my life you fucking slithering faceless assholes!? How dare you rip my life apart like this! Who the fuck do you think you are!? Do you even care what you have done to my life?? You have destroyed my business and everything I have done in my entire lifetime as an artist! It’s all just GONE because of your pathetic corporate greed! You sleazy mother fuckers! You have wiped out everything I accomplished in my life as if you had the right! YOU DIDN”T, YOU SLITHERING MAGGOTS! Everything I had left from my family that I cherished is gone because of you assholes! Stolen by a sleazy self serving criminal minded pile of shit named Margaret Sommers in the name of Public Storage, the corporate whores she steals for! How the fuck do you assholes live with yourselves, you self serving corporate douche bags!

Who the fuck do you think you are ruining people’s lives like this, Margaret?? IT WAS AN ILLEGAL AUCTION AND YOU HAD NO RIGHT!!! And you think this matter is closed, you sleazy fucking pile of corporate shit!? NOT A FUCKING CHANCE IN HELL! NOT EVEN FUCKING CLOSE! This matter will never be closed until justice is done and maggots like you and the corporate whores like Ronald L. Havner Jr. who you steal for are exposed and you all pay for what you have done to me! For destroying my life as if you thieving slithering larva had the right to! You stole everything! My entire life is GONE because of you dripping assholes!

YOU WILL ALL PAY AND BE EXPOSED FOR THE SLITHERING CORPORATE SCUMBAGS YOU ALL ARE! That is a promise to all you sleazy corporate maggots who call Public Storage, home. You’re a syndicate of criminals! Bait and Switch; Fraudulent Advertising; Fraudulent Conversion; Unlawful Auctions… You’re a company of scam artists that are being sued all over the country! And I hold Ronald L. Havner Jr., Margaret Sommers and your entire sleazy company of corporate thieves responsible for what you've illegally done to my life! And you will all pay for it! And your I'm a photographer. Web and graphic designer. Looking for someone to fix my car in trade. pathetic 10K ceiling will be shattered before I even get you into court. Mark my words. THE WAVE IS COMING AND YOU’VE DONE THAT TO YOURSELVES!! YOU WILL PAY FOR THOSE 40 PLUS YEARS YOU HAVE STOLEN FROM ME! Again, that’s a promise from me to you! And I always keep a promise.

And if I sound like I’m full of hate, it’s because you’ve taken all that was good in my life and my contempt for you self centered predatory scumbags is all that you’ve left me with. But that seems to be what you guys do best!

-DG

ATT: Public Storage: Illegal Auctions Department                                                        4/20/15

I am David Goldner, the sole creator, sole owner and sole copyright holder of the 40 plus years of Original Art and Photography as well as Original Written Material that Public Storage illegally stole from me and auctioned from unit B-204 on the 17th of March at Public Storage 23030, at 300 Avery St. LA CA 90013.

As the creator and copyright owner, I have exclusive rights to my own work under, the Copyright Act of 1968, the copyright act of 1976, as well as The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. These exclusive rights include the right to reproduce the Work, and to publish and communicate the Work to the public (including by way of sale, broadcast or putting the Work online). No one else has these rights. No one except me or the clients I may grant a written copyright to. 17 U.S. Code § 204.

My painted art, computer art, photography including all negatives, transparencies, and prints, all digital photographic images as well as all digital art images in any format and all original written material in any format is under my sole copyright and cannot be, transferred, copied, Xeroxed, printed, broadcast, posted on line or reproduced in any way, shape or form without my exclusive written consent as the creator and copy right holder.

It is a blatant infringement of my copyright to do any of the acts comprised in the copyright in relation to the whole or a substantial part of the work, or to authorize such an act, without the exclusive permission and license from me as the copyright owner.

You have failed to seek permission or a license from me to transfer or sell any of my copyrighted material and I demand the immediate return of all material. 17 U.S. Code § 204. Your illegal transfer of my original copyrighted material has also denied me any future revenue from my own work and I will be seeking full compensation for any and all lost future revenue of 40 plus years of my art and photography. Your conduct described above constitutes infringement of my personal rights as well as my inherent copyrights as the creator of all the material you have illegally stolen and transferred to any third party.

To rectify this infringement of my rights, I require that you undertake:
1.    Immediately return all stolen copyrighted material as well as all personal belongings stolen by Public Storage 23030 from unit B-204.
2.    Or… provide me with $40,000,000.00 for the 40 plus years, a life time of my art and photography that you have blatantly stolen from me and illegally auctioned on March 17th from unit B-204 at Public Storage 23030, at 300 Avery St. Los Angeles, CA 90013.

You and any third party you may have illegally transferred my copyrighted material to, are now on notice as to my work’s inherent copyrights in respect to any reproduction violations of that material. If I do not receive an adequate response within 21 days of this letter, I will be taking such action as I may be advised by legal counsel, in order to protect my rights and to recover damages without further notice to Public Storage.

PERSONAL NOTE:   As an artist, I do and will always reserve all my copyrights and I will always continue to defend them fully. As your customer, I have to say you sleazy jackasses suck big time! You treat your customers like shit and your company policies are totally predatory which just shows me that the employees of Public Storage and it’s CEO and executive branch have no integrity or ethics as individual people, or as a company what so ever. But I’m sure you’ve heard that before. If you haven’t, just Google yourselves! To be honest, I will enjoy suing your sleazy self serving corporate minded asses because you damn well deserve it! Attorney Dale Washington, looked at all my paper work and is taking my case. Wanna’ bet your 10K limit is out the window for a whole list of reasons we will easily argue in court?? What your company does to people is disgusting! Public Storage has destroyed a life time of my copyrighted art and photography as if it was nothing. 40 plus years of my work and my life is GONE! And for no reason except for your own corporate greed! I guarantee you sleazy self serving corporate minded scum bags will pay for what you have done to me!

-David Goldner                               PS… I’d rather be creating art… But if it’s a very public fight you want, you got it!

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The Sleazy Corporate Thieves of Public Storage...

by Angry LA Artist, Thursday, Apr. 16, 2015
AngryLAArtist@gmail.com

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2015/04/267921.php

Ronald L. Havner Jr.

-Ronald L. Havner Jr.

B. Wayne Hughes

$mile! I just $tole your entire life!
-B. Wayne Hughe$

The Sleazy Corporate thieves of Public Storage: Ronald L. Havner Jr.; B. Wayne Hughes; Edward John Reyes; Shawn L. Weidmann; and more, are ripping off their customers on a daily basis and literally ruining people's lives all over America. And they are doing this on a daily basis while law enforcement sits back and does nothing but watch while the sleazy blue collar multimillion dollar executives get even richer with the blood money of their innocent victims of their totally unlawful scams. Bait & Switch, False Advertising, Fraudulent Conversion, Illegal Auctions of their customers most cherished belongings. These people are blatant corporate thieves! And so far they are getting away with it. But not for long if one Angry LA Artist has anything to say about it.

Ronald L. Havner Jr. is one of the Sleaziest CEO’s, heading one of the sleaziest companies in America today… Yes… That would be “Public Storage”. Bait and switch… False Advertising... Fraudulent Conversion… Unlawful Auctions… Public Storage is being sued all over the country. Just Google ‘Public Storage Lawsuits’. And his executive board of sleazy scumbags are just as guilty or they are all brain dead morons who want to play dumb as they fill their pockets with the illegal blood money Public Storage squeezes from their victims / customers / Storage suckers of the day.

The Sleazy Corporate line up...

Ronald L. Havner Jr. : The Chairman & Chief Executive Scumbag of Public Storage’s daily cons, scams and blatant thievery of their unsuspecting customers.

B. Wayne Hughes: Founder and Chairman of Public Storage’s Corporate rip off policies. Always happy to screw his customers and ruin their lives on a daily basis.

Edward John Reyes: Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President of stealing all your cherished belongings and pocketing the proceeds of selling your life to a stranger. Give yourself a bonus, asshole!

Shawn L. Weidmann: Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of just not giving a damn about their customers.

"These are the sleazy corporate morons are ruining peoples lives like they ruined mine and I'm going to expose them all!" says the Angry LA Artist.

ANOTHER CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT FILED AGAINST PUBLIC STORAGE, MARCH 2015…

http://www.laartsdistrictblogs.com/ClassActionAgainstPublic…

Board of Public Storage's Sleazy Executive Thieves:

B. Wayne Hughes; Edward John Reyes; Shawn L. Weidmann; Daniel C. Staton II; Avedick B Poladian; Gary E. Pruitt...

“Of course I blame the head of the company!” the angry Los Angeles based artist goes on… “Ronald L. Havner Jr. is the fucking CEO! He damn well knows what’s going on and so do they all! I’ll put it this way… Ron and his gang of Corporate crooks are either all brain dead morons too stupid to know how this company does business, or more likely, the sleazy self centered conductors of the daily orchestrated scams and blatant perversion of the law Public Storage practices on a daily basis! They are scamming people on so many levels! The people that run their fuzzy math scams like the plastic phony District Manager Margaret Sommers, are sleazy conscienceless predators that politely smile as they steal everything you own and then thank you for being their customer. I’ll bet Ronald and his gang of thieves don’t get many return customers! I only want to see them again in court! Or better yet, behind bars where they all belong!! That’s my experience with these Public Storage scum bags.”

“You know that scum bag makes almost 10 million a year!” referring to the CEO, Ronald Havner. “It’s no wonder!” The angry artist goes on... “He’s a fucking corporate thief! And he’s lining his pockets with people’s lives! Bait and switch! Fraudulent Conversion! Unlawful Auctions! Public Storage is being sued all over the country! And now I’m in line to sue them too! What Ronald L. Havner Jr. and his sleazy plastic minions like Margaret Sommers are doing to people like me is disgusting! And I’ll be damned if I’m going to take what they did lying down! His illegal and blatantly predatory business practices have literally ruined my life and many others. And speaking for myself, I’m going to make him pay for it! Almost 50 years of my original Photography and my original art is just gone like it was nothing! Because it was nothing to Ronald L. Havner Jr. or the conscienceless crony minions like Margaret Sommers who Ronald has running Public Storage as district managers! These people are mindless robots!“

“ Public Storage literally just destroyed my life as an artist! As a professional photographer since high school, I literally had hundreds of thousands of copyrighted and irreplaceable negatives, transparencies, original prints, years of tear sheets from the hundreds of jobs I’ve done are all gone! Not to mention all of my original paintings from the 80’s to now, GONE! All my equipment, Gone!! My entire studio was in that space! They sold my entire life away to a total stranger as if it was nothing! All my personal business and medical records as well! Almost 50 years of my life! Those fucking thieves stole my entire life away and they won’t even tell me who they sold it to! I don’t even have a picture of my mother anymore! Everything in my life is gone! Ronald L. Havner Jr. is going to pay for that. What he has put me through I only wish on him!”

“Ronald L. Havner and his organized band of sleazy Public Storage cronies stole everything I owned as if they had the right! THEY DIDN’T!” he insists! “It was a blatantly illegal auction! And I have the best lawyer in the country for the job! He’s already sued Public Storage multiple times and just filed a class action suit against them last month! After examining all of the fuzzy math Public Storage tries to get away with everyday in my own paper work, my new attorney quickly determined they fucked up big time!! My auction was illegal as were many other things they did almost from moment one! Bait and switch, Fraudulent Conversion, unlawful auction! That’s what they do to innocent people who have come there to safely store their most important belongings! They are disgusting! They have illegally ruined my life as an artist as if they had the right! THEY DIDN’T! And I will see them in court. And I guarantee we’ll be suing for a lot more then the 10K ceiling they think they can force on people they hurt! You violated the law and your own contract! You think you can hold me to a contract you yourself violated?”

“Hey Ron... How much is 40 plus years of my life worth, if your life is worth almost 10 million a year? Think about it, you sleazy thieving corporate asshole!”

-Angry LA Artist

Ronald L. Havner Jr. is one of the Sleaziest CEO’s,
heading one of the sleaziest companies in America today…

Yes… That would be “Public Storage”. Bait and switch… Fraudulent Conversion… Unlawful Auctions… Public Storage is being sued all over the country. Just Google ‘Public Storage Lawsuits’.

“Of course I blame the head of the company!” the angry Los Angeles based artist goes on… “Ronald L. Havner Jr. is the fucking CEO! He damn well knows what’s going on! I’ll put it this way… He’s either a brain dead moron too stupid to know how his company does business, or more likely, the sleazy self centered conductor of their daily orchestrated scams and blatant perversion of the law with their fuzzy math! They are scamming people on so many levels! The people that run Public Storage like the plastic phoney, Margaret Sommers are sleazy conscienceless predators that politely smile as they steal everything you own and then thank you for being their customer. I’ll bet Ronald doesn’t get many return customers! I only want to see them again in court! Or better yet, behind bars!! That’s my experience with Public Storage.”

“You know that scum bag makes almost 10 million a year!” referring to Ronald Havner. “It’s no wonder!” The angry artist goes on... “He’s a fucking corporate thief! And he’s lining his pockets with people’s lives! Bait and switch! Fraudulent Conversion! Unlawful Auctions! Public Storage is being sued all over the country! And now I’m in line to sue them too! What Ronald L. Havner Jr. and his sleazy plastic minions like Margaret Sommers are doing to people like me is disgusting! And I’ll be damned if I’m going to take what they did lying down! His illegal and blatantly predatory business practices have literally ruined my life and many others. And speaking for myself, I’m going to make him pay for it! Almost 50 years of my original Photography and my original art is just gone like it was nothing! Because it was nothing to Ronald L. Havner Jr. or the conscienceless crony minions like Margaret Sommers who Ronald has running Public Storage as district managers! These people are mindless robots!“

“ Public Storage literally just destroyed my life as an artist! As a professional photographer since high school, I literally had hundreds of thousands of copyrighted and irreplaceable negatives, transparencies, original prints, years of tear sheets from the hundreds of jobs I’ve done are all gone! Not to mention all of my original paintings from the 80’s to now, GONE! All my equipment, Gone!! My entire studio was in that space! They sold my entire life away to a total stranger as if it was nothing! Almost 50 years of my life! Those fucking thieves stole my entire life away and they won’t even tell me who they sold it to! I don’t even have a picture of my mother anymore! Everything in my life is gone! Ronald L. Havner Jr. is going to pay for that. What he has put me through I only wish on him!”

“Hey Ron... How much is 40 plus years of my life worth, if your life is worth almost 10 million a year? Think about it, you sleazy thieving corporate asshole!”

NO ETHICS - NO SELF CONFIDENCE - MISLEADING & DISHONEST BUSINESS PRACTICES. That's my experience with Joshua Sodaitis and Momentum Capital Ventures, LLC., says Photographer, David Goldner.

Well, the supposed venture capital company, Momentum Capital Ventures LLC, run by Joshua Sodaitis, ended up having a no integrity, no ethics, & totally waisted my time. Josh had me sign a contract and THEN NEVER SIGNED IT HIMSELF TO "SAVE HIS OWN ASS" as he put it. And he saved his ass at my expense! He wasted months of my time where I could have been looking for other legitimate funders! Instead, they made me believe I was under contract with them when they actually never signed the contract themselves. And Josh did this all with a smiles and kudos as he stabbed me in the back. How fucking republican is that?!

As far as I'm concerned, Josh Sodaitis and Momentum Capital Ventures LLC, have no fucking integrity what so ever. They wasted my time and blatantly lied to me about what they were going to do. They put me in a terrible position and took no responsibility for it. They led me to believe we had signed a contract! That is just unethical and misleading business practices. They actually did nothing but give me lip service and lead me on. I don't know how people like this can actually sleep at night!

Josh Sodaitis obviously has no self confidence in himself or his company, or their ability to do what he says Momentum Capital Venture LLC, promised to do for me in our contract. A contract that they themselves drew up then never signed! Apparently, the contract was just appeasement to keep me on the hook when I could have continued to look for actual funding sources! And that wasted time has hurt me and my project and set me back months by losing the production studio! THEY DID NOTHING BUT LEAD ME ON!! Momentum has no conscience of integrity.

What was even worse, Josh acted like what he and his company did to me, was okay because he was off the hook to get me the money. Why the fuck did you even bother giving me that contract, Josh? Standard republican business practice, right? Create a contract that you have no intention of signing? And then say it was to protected your own ass at my expense? If you did this to me, you will do it to someone else and probably already have! This kind of business practice is NOT okay, Josh! I am so sick of getting fucked by self serving republican scumbags and Momentum Capital Venture LLC. is now in that category as far as I concerned.

If Josh Sodaitias ever gives you a contract, either laugh in his face and tear it up, or make sure he and Momentum Capital Ventures, LLC have signed it first! Otherwise your gonna get fucked like I did! Thanks again for all your support, Josh!
David G.

Joseph Pitruzzelli, The Hypocrisy Never Ends
by Angry LA Artist Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 at 7:40 PM
la.indymedia.org/news/2014/01/262911.php
angrylaartist@gmail.com

This is a rebuttal to what I think is total hypocrisy in the blogs at http://woodsmithe.com/blog, where they let a documented liar, Joseph Pitruzzelli, pat himself on the back for "how the arts district is progressing" after arriving with his noisy retail nightmare that is helping destroy the Arts District for the actual artists. Does he mention the artist neighbor who he literally tortured out of his loft next door with Wilson Pitruzzelli Investments illegal activities in what was supposed to be a legal AIR that Joseph turned into a noisy 24 hour commercial warehouse? No! So I wanted to fill in the blanks.....

I was Joseph Pitruzzelli’s neighbor when he moved into the arts district and opened Wurstkuche and I have to say that he and his sleazy cousin partner were nothing but a living nightmare for me and all the actual artist around them!! And that fact is very well documented at WurstkucheSucks.com and LAArtsDistrictBlogs.com!

Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson are self serving republicans jackasses that had absolutely no respect for their artist neighbors and literally drove me out of my long time studio, starting the very first week they arrived in the arts district. They were illegally using an actual long time Artist loft in a zoned AIR building direct between me and their restaurant as a noisy 24 hour commercial warehouse for their restaurant! Why is that okay? How does that make him a good neighbor in any way, shape or form?

Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson, the owners of Wurstkuche as well as developer Paul Solomon, were both cited by the city of Los Angeles for the illegal use of that legal Artist In Residence at 806 E. 3rd St.. But did they stop after being cited??? NO! Did they care how much they were disrupting their artist neighbors literally on a 24 hour basis?? NO! Not one bit. In fact, The manager informed me personally that Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson had a... and I quote: "Fuck David Attitude". That would be me. And that's exactly what they did on a daily basis for two years. Yet this hypocrite is featured in blogs as a good neighbor? You mean, now that it's all retail around them that have replaced the actual artist lofts. That's what Joseph is happy about. Driving all the actual artist away. He is truly the anti-artist of the LA Arts District.

Even after Joseph Pitruzzelli lost a law suit by their artist neighbor, did he stop his illegal use of that loft? No! They appealed so they could continue to disrupt me and the entire neighborhood with there illegal use of that loft because it was convenient for them to use! How sleazy, self serving and republican is that? Or is that what LARABA considers a good neighbor in the Arts District?

I was forced to live next Joseph Pitruzzelli's nightmare for two years and I'm appalled that anyone would think he is even close to any kind of good neighbor. The person you are praising disrupted my life and the arts district and I've been there since 1983.

Wurstkuche Sucks and so does Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson. They are the anti-artist of the LA Arts District and have done nothing to date to prove otherwise. They are NOT good neighbors for the Arts District! They have done nothing but bring noise, smoke and congestion to what was a creative neighborhood and they have driven the actual artists away!

They are not artist friendly and not the kind of neighbor I would curse on anyone except republicans like themselves! My experience with Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson was worse then bad nightmare because they never let me sleep! And that lasted 2 years until I finally left what was my creative live work space!! A space that is now a retail clothing store priced for yuppies! That’s the asshole you are featuring in your "neighborhood" blogs. At least my blogs are real!

PS.... For all the hypocrites at LARABA, ask yourself why it was okay for your now X- republican president to have arrive in the LA arts district, rent a ZONED AIR loft in an Artist's building full of actual artists, and then use it as a 24 hour commercial warehouse for there restaurant while he knowingly disrupted the lives of his artist neighbors with no conscience about it what so ever! Why was that okay? Been waiting for an answer for several years now.

Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson are self centered pork encased pigs and nothing has changed.

An Open Letter To:
JOSEPH (the sleazy hypocrite) PITRUZZELLI & TYLER (the scum bag liar) WILSON,
LOSERS OF THEIR PHONY DEFAMATION LAW SUIT
THE FIRST AMENDMENT WINS AGAIN!

Well I just saw on line the "PENDING" was gone and the court had reached a verdict..... I guess it will be mailed to me too, I mean being that I'm the defendant and all, but on line it says:

"10/15/2012 Judgment (COURT JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF DEFENDANT DAVID GOLDNER AND AGAINST PLAINTIFF)"

You sleazy little republican assholes papered me out of the court hearings with your Default filing, filed papers for a year with the court without any protest, and I still won the case without even being there!! Keep that in mind wiener boys. Because I will follow through on the promise I made your attorney if you ever try to harass me in any way shape or form again. You fucking pathetic little wiener boys lost your bullshit harassment law suit because you deserved to lose! My opinions of you are not defamation! The fact that my opinions of you two scum bags are incredibly low, is a direct reflection of how you treated me as your neighbor and the hell you put me through in the arts district! What don't you get? And my blogs just document how I feel about you and what I think of you! And guess what.... I'm entitled to despise you for being sleazy assholes to me as the artist next door after you invaded the arts district and illegally used the loft next to my studio and disrupted my life!

I really have no doubt the judge saw right through your phony victim crap. And as far as I'm concerned, you're both pathetic low life sleaze balls for trying to play the victim after what you put me through! And let me tell you, you assholes playing the victim is what really infuriated me about this law suit! After what you put me through on a daily basis for two years? You're going to try and pretend you're the victim? Seriously, fuck you both from the bottom of my heart! Joseph Pitruzzelli, Tyler Wilson, you are both sleazy self serving ignorant brain dead douche bags for playing the victim! Totally pathetic! And after just downloading both your declarations filed with the court, phony crap is a total understatement! What blatant sleazy twisted half stories and blatant lies you assholes filed as evidence in this court case! And that's exactly what I predicted you'd do! No wonder you didn't want me there to set the record straight. You damn well know I would have torn your self serving stories apart in front of the judge! What phony's you are! Your lie filled one sided declaration tries to imply that your illegal use of an artist loft, daily violating LAMC and LADBS codes and violating my rights wasn't the problem. (And that's your fucking problem in a nut shell, by the way) It was the artist next door trying to live and be creative in his legal arts district loft who is the problem? You poor little multi million dollar wiener boys are both just the victim of me, the artist and in all places, the arts district, with my totally uncalled for creative work space and residential sleeping hours! How dare me, right? What fucking sleazy assholes you two are! What was your motto when I was trying to live there? "SLEEP? HE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' SLEEP!" or maybe "CONSIDERATION? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' CONSIDERATION!" or maybe "NO RESPECT FOR YOUR ARTIST NEIGHBOR." If the shoe fits, ware it!

You know what I'm guilty of? I'm guilty of being the artist who was unfortunate enough to be next door to you two assholes when you invaded the arts district with your Wurstkuche nightmare! But I'm not the victim, you are, right? I just dropped out of the sky to harass you for no reason, right? WOW! That's almost psychotic. How fucking pathetic you little sleaze balls both are! Was it me who just dropped out of the sky? Really? Not the opposite? Really? You guy's are just like the republicans in the GOP! Just turn it around and lie, lie, lie! And I think the judge must have seen that too. After all you gave her my blogs as evidence! And after seeing your evidence, I have no doubt she could see the consistency and sincerity in my blogs that your evidence lacks. You think I write my blogs for the public? You are ignorant fools and have no clue to an artist's motivations. My blogs are for me. My feelings. My emotions. My opinions. I don't give a fuck who reads them, or if anyone reads them.

And by the way, you actually contradicted your own evidence in multiple places from what I can see at just a glance. I'm sure the judge could see that too! This case was a fraud from the start. You thought you could scare me in to taking my blogs down. How'd that work out for you two shit for brains wiener cousins? Let me make this really clear... I did ,and still do, stand by every word I've written about you phony idiots. And I had two years to get to know you two yuppie pricks, Joseph. Two years of pure torture!

And since you brought it up in your law suit which I will be posting parts of soon, let's talk about my observations of you with regards to my comment about what I perceive as your un-normal reaction to my non sexual pin up art. I distinctly recall you calling my art work porn and smut despite it's lack of any sexual content what so ever. Isn't that correct, Joey? So you consider nudity in itself pornography? Is that a religious thing? Because I also remember inviting you to come into my studio to look at my large original canvases. Do you remember that? Do you remember your reaction to my art work? I do. You were probably in my studio for less then 30 seconds. You walked in and looked like a nun that had just walked into a men's dressing room! You almost immediately got flustered and said you forgot something and turned and walked out. But I could see it was your reaction to the gallery of beautiful naked girls in my studio. Now I've studied the psychology of human sexuality in college and I have shot erotica for over 30 years now. I know what the normal male reaction is to my art work and your reaction was not that of a healthy straight male. Because I see that reaction all the time. Running like a scared nun or calling my glamorous pin up art pornography is not the norm for a male your age. So what is your fucking problem with beautiful naked girls, Joseph? Are you gay? I mean, that's okay. But if not, then personally I think you have a problem with human sexuality in general, or maybe just your own. But again Joseph, that's' just my opinion from my personal experience with you. That's why my blogs are here. So I can document my personal experiences. And the hell you brought with you to the arts district is unfortunately one of my experiances. My two years of inflicted hell by you two self centered yuppie pricks. And now you have a permanent record too! WurstkucheSucks.com. A direct result of this law suit, your own actions. And FYI, I leave the fiction for my Sci-Fi scripts. My blogs are my opinions from my experiances. And my experiance with you two little assholes is clearly refleted in my blogs, get it? I think the two of you, Joseph Pitruzzelli, Tyler Wilson, are pure up and coming republican pond scum that I'm sure want to be just like the Koch brothers. Well your off to a great start sleazeballs! And that's how I feel about you because that's how you treated me as your artist neighbor and nothing has changed.

NO RESPECT FOR YOUR ARTIST NEIGHBORS. Are we learning about artist rights yet, you pathetically ignorant consciousless assholes?

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Posted 8-18-12
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE WURSTKUCHE WIENER BOY LAW SUITE!
And yes, Wurstkuche still sucks and my blogs are still on line...

It's was one year ago today that the frivolous law was filed against me and the corporate douche bags at Wurstkuche continue to this day to file paper with the court, pathetically playing the role of some kind of victim as they desperately try to deny the illegal use of the AIR next to my Arts District studio and what that illegal use did to me as their neighbor. What pathetic assholes they are! Here's the same post I put up when I got first the law suite. Nothing has changed...

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

This is to all the ignorant yuppie assholes out there who think they can quash the constitution and an artist's first amendment rights... Yes, that would include the pathetically ignorant wiener boys of Wilson Pitruzzelli Investments, LLC and Wurstkuche restaurant, Tyler Wilson & Joseph Pitruzzelli who don't want a mirror held up to their faces or any kind of reminder of what they did to me as their neighbor after they moved into the arts district. I've had 4 lofts in the arts district over about 25 years and never experienced anything like this until these self serving idiots moved in and totally disrupted my life with their overwhelming invasiveness on so many levels, including their blatantly arrogant sense of entitlement and lack of consideration for their neighbors, including me, that forced me into a battle with the management over there illegal use of an AIR building as a 24 hour noisy warehouse!

I am in the arts district to be around artist, to be inspired, to create, not be in the middle of the hellish nightmare Tyler Wilson & Joseph Pitruzzelli created for me by using an AIR building, a residential building for artists, as a noisy 24 hour commercial warehouse for their over priced, over cooked, mediocre sausage factory!!! I moved out as a direct result to what those assholes did to me and that section of the arts district, an area I've had lived in over 25 years!

Tyler Wilson & Joseph Pitruzzelli and Wurstkuche restaurant turned my creative workspace into a hellish living nightmare for me. And to date, still have no conscience or regret about what they did to me! They tried to ruin my life by filing a false police report just to harass me with a totally unwarranted restraining order that was full of twisted bullshit and blatant lies! Then they never even showed up in court to defend what they did or the pack of lies they vomited up in the police report! Tyler Wilson & Joseph Pitruzzelli the owners of Wurstkuche restaurant don't have a drop of integrity between them and are just self serving lying sleaze balls that I consider the scum of the arts district! Like spoiled children, they just don't give a damn about anything but themselves! Why should they? They're making to much money to care about what they have done to me or the effect they have had on any of the artist's surrounding them since they moved in!

YOU DISRUPTED MY LIFE YOU BLIND SELF CENTERED SNOTTY LITTLE ASSHOLES!! You turned the arts district into a noisy congested living hell for me and anyone around you! You don't have a fucking clue to what that section of the arts district was like before you invasive noisy yuppies moved in and disrupted it! Well I do!!

My blogs are my personal opinion from my personal experiences, just as it says above. These blogs are how I honestly feel based on my experiences and interactions with who I write about, and no one can tell me it isn't. And writing out what is bothering me and how I feel is my method of getting something out and then moving on. Or at least trying to. No one can tell me that my perception of people from my experiences with them are wrong. They are my perception from my experiences! And my experiences say that Tyler Wilson & Joseph Pitruzzelli are pathetic assholes that have earned every word I have castigated them with in my blogs! The words I have chosen are the way I personally feel about them and I stand by every word I write in my blogs and so does the first amendment!
-David Goldner

The law suit by the sleazy republican owners of Wurstkuche is nothing but bullshit harassment to quash the blogs about my personal experiences, and to my amazement has been allowed by the courts to continue to this day. August 18, 2012.
David G.

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Connections for Wurstkuche Owner Tyler Wilson are REPUBLICAN!
http://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Los-Angeles/tyler-wilson/47288173.aspx
View the connections between Tyler Wilson and Joseph Pitruzzelli Managing Members at Wilson Pitruzzelli Investments LLC Los Angeles, CA
Companies associated with Tyler Wilson: Owner of Wurstkuche Restaurant.

Records for Possible Political Campaign Contributions by Tyler Wilson are maintained by The Federal Election Commission (FEC). The results below are based on a name and ZIP code proximity match and are provided as a possible research tool only. These campaign contributions may be related to Tyler Wilson. (You think?)

Tyler Wilson's Contributions to Republicans: $1,000.00
Tyler Wilson's Contributions to Democrats: $0.00

6/22/1999 - Time Management Systems - Santa Monica, CA - Bush for President Inc. - $1,000.00

"The LAPD acted like a pack of bullies with badges at Los Angeles Art Walk." says one art walk artist. The LAPD totally over reacted to chalk protesters and totally fucked up the Los Angeles Art Walk on July 12th for all the participating artists. They were militant minded morons that bullied all the artist's customers away and if you watch the video, bullies with badges is what they actually look like. LAPD was assaulting people for writing with chalk, something thousands of children do every day of the week all across America. Are you fucking kidding me? LAPD's justification is pathetic and self serving which makes all the cops involved just that; pathetic and self serving.
David Goldner

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4/27/12
Dog Lovers Agree on LARABA

Just came from the dog park in the arts district. I just happen to be standing next to a few people that were talking about being at the last LARABA meeting and being very up set about how they were treated by LARABA at the meeting. (That's because LARABA cares about the businesses in the arts district, not the actual artists.) Anyway, as I listened, one girl called the people running the meetings "elitist douche bags". WOW!! Those were her exact words! Does that sound like anyone I discussed in my blogs? Does their description sound a bit like the way I've described their douche bag of a president, Joseph Pitruzzelli? Was she talking about him personally or is his attitude just rubbing off on the rest of them as well? Either way I feel so vindicated that I'm not the only one that feels this way!
David G.
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4/17/2012

It's funny that LARABA cares so much about Mental Health Court in the Arts District. What about the arts district property that your own president disrupted? You know, the actual artist in residence at 808 E. 3rd St. for over 20 years before your president showed up with his sausage nightmare, Wurstkuche restaurant?? You did nothing when your fucking hypocritical asshole president Joseph Pitruzzelli and his pansy ass little cousin illegally turned 808 E. 3rd Street into a 24 hour nightmare warehouse and harassed a long timwe arts district artist out of his own studio with their total lack of any conscience, consideration or any true knowledge of the arts district or it's history! I've been here since 1982! Where were you then? Where are you now as your president continues a year after I left my studio to try to harass me in order to cover the truth of how he treated me as his artist neighbor? I'll tell you... You were and still are all standing around with your heads up your own hypocritical asses! You're all as pathetic as your token anti-artist president! Joseph Pitruzzelli is a little yuppie prick who's ego makes him thinks he's entitled! So I'll keep giving him what I think he's entitled to... Multiple mirrors to look into for a long time to come. Mirrior Mirror on the wall, whos an asshole after all... Your president, Joseph Pitruzzelli.

TO JAN PERRY & THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES:
YOUR ARTS DISTRICT IS A SHAM!
YOU DO NOTHING FOR THE ACTUAL ARTISTS!
YOU HAVE LET THE CONDO DEVELOPERS AND INTRUSIVE
BUSINESSES PUSH ALL THE ACTUAL ARTIST OUT!

When the last artist is gone, the last loft turned retail, commercial or condo by the money
hungry corporations and the irresponsible landlords, will the city of Los Angeles still try
and call this downtown area the "LA Arts District"?

You know, this was the most intolerable things I have ever been through and the self serving representatives of the city of Los Angeles did absolutely nothing to stop it. And the reason why is obvious... Money! And despite winning my court case against the inconsiderate yuppie little pricks Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson who own the nightmare Wurstkuche restaurant, the police, namely my impotent senior lead officer Jack Richter, did absolutely nothing to stop that late night noise, despite his personal promised to me to do so. All I got was bullshit excuses! It was obvious Wurstkuche was making more money for the city then any of the artist around them at that point so fuck the artists! Right Jack?

The LADBS sited Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson, owners of Wurstkuche Restaurant as well as my asshole landlord Paul Solomon, and then..... did absolutely nothing to follow up and enforce their own order to stop the illegal activity at 808 E. 3rd St. that was a on going living nightmare for the artist neighbors, namely me. What a fucking sham by all of you involved!

Jan Perry and the city council hide their heads in the sand when an artist needs help, but is quick to accommodate all the invasive corporations and developers that they have let invade the LA Arts District and there actions have done nothing but assist the forced exodus of all the long time artists. Jan Perry never intervened in any way with Wurstkuche's illegal use of an AIR loft, except for bullshit lip service. I think you and your staff are all totally uncaring, impotent and worthless to the actual artists! I think you're all pathetic hypocrites!

808 1/2 was my 4th Artist In Residence in 30 years and I guarantee the next loft I get will not be in this City's so called LA Arts district. This is no longer a creative environment for artists, but a new cool haven for self serving yuppies. You have all recklessly let it become a sanctuary for condo developers, sleazy landlords like Paul Solomon and inconsiderate self serving corporate yuppie assholes, like the two douche bag owners of Wurstkuche, Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson who have invaded the arts district with non stop noise and congestion and totally disrupted my life as their artist neighbor with their illegal use of what was supposed to be an actual Artist In Residence loft! All you assholes have sanctioned a fucking living nightmare for any artist and that's what Wurstkuche is! For the city of Los Angeles to continue to call the LA Arts District an artist friendly environment is total bullshit hypocrisy and that legacy now belongs to you all! You do nothing for the actual artists except occasionally throw them a small bone like dogs! I think you're all money hungry self serving hypocrites from the top down! But hey, I'm only a struggling artist and been in the Arts District for 30 years, so what do I know.
--David Goldner

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Posted 4/8/2012
A LETTER TO: The Los Angeles River Artists and Business Association
Your president, Joseph Pitruzzelli and his idiot cousin Tyler Wilson have got to be the most self centered inconsiderate jackasses I have ever had to deal with as neighbors in the arts district and I've been in 4 lofts down here in 30 years! For Joseph to be the president of your organization or anything with "artist" in the title is total hypocrisy on your part! But I guess the Los Angeles River Artists and Business Association doesn't actually consider the artist in the arts district actual "stake holders", as you put it on your web site, right?

I won the court case against Joseph Pitruzzelli and Wurstkuche for violating LAMC noise ordinance codes and my rights on a daily basis and they actually appealed the ruling rather than even try to be considerate neighbors in any way, shape or form! That’s your self serving president! And according to the judge, that ruling that was already set in precedence long before I even sued these idiots! They obviously were not listening to the judge in court or are just too damn arrogant to care about their actual artist neighbors or what the court ruling was. Maybe that doesn't matter to your organization, but it mattered to me because Joseph Pitruzzelli disrupted my life!! Do you think it is right to have a "president" that actually thinks they can win the right to disturb their neighbors just because they are successful? What fucking arrogance! Because that's exactly what he did! What total hypocrisy on both your parts!

The court ruling in case number LAM 10M07169 said: "Nighttime operations causing excess noise constitutes private nuisance even if the use is permitted by city." And by the way, it is NOT permitted by the city! They have been given an order to comply by the city and ordered to turn 808 E. 3rd St., an actual AIR unit back into an actual AIR unit! But did Joseph Pitruzzelli ever comply? NO! That's your hypocritical president! It's amazing what money will make you guys overlook!

I actually thought they got it and were going to comply for the first week or so after the court ruling. But that’s how long it lasted, just a week or so, which seems to be the edge of Joseph’s attention span and the time limit on any promise to be quieter they he ever made me since they moved in here. His arrogance is disgusting! They tortured me out ofdd my studio as their neighbor from the first week they were here! And it still hasn’t stopped! They drag kegs and restaurant supplies in and out of an Artist in Residence loft that they illegally used as a noisy beer keg warehouse in what was once an actual AIR building, not a haven for yuppie pricks like Joseph Pitruzzelli. The arts district is supposed to be a creative environment, isn't it? And even as noisy as they are during the day, the noise is supposed to stop after 10:00 pm according to the law, not 3:30 am!

Months after the city ordered Joseph Pitruzzelli to comply and turn 808 E. 3rd Street back into an actual Artist in Residence they did NOTHING! The order to comply was ignored, and Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson did nothing but continued to ignore that city order to comply. Then Joseph Pitruzzelli appealed the court ruling so he could continue to torture his artist neighbors with his lack of conscience and non stop nightmare of 24 hour noise. To say they are a "nuisance" to the actual artists in the arts district is an incredible understatement. Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson are just blatant inconsiderate jackasses and have done nothing but disrupt their artist neighbor’s lives since they got to the LA Arts District! They just don't care and they don’t get it! That’s your hypocritical president! The city said it was wrong, the courts said it is wrong. The only ones who think it was okay to be as inconsiderate as they want to be are Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson and your organization!

Again that's your president of the Los Angeles River Artists and Business Association! Why don't you guys just call it the Los Angeles Business Association because you really can't give a damn about the actual artists if you have a self serving jackass like Joseph Pitruzzelli as your president!