NY Sues Furniture Store Owners

December 9, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Aggregated Content in Furniture Retailing on December 10, 2012 from http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121210/BUSINESS/121219957/1109 The owners of the defunct FWS furniture store in Buffalo are being sued by State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman over as much as $250,000 in advance payments that its customers made for merchandise they never received.

The lawsuit seeks to recover advance payments made by FWS' customers, which the Attorney General's Office estimated could total between $160,000 and $250,000. It also seeks to bar FWS' owners, John Grimaldi and John Wanat, from operating another business in New York without posting a $500,000 performance bond.

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