New York Post Reports on Brewer Storefront Fraud Case

November 10, 2023 – The New York Post reported today about Brewer Storefront client Kimaya Taylor and her fraud case against a New York City consignment store. According to the article, “The owners of an Upper East Side antiques store are being sued by a series of clients who claim they were ripped off and had their heirlooms trashed.”

The article continues, “The owners of Sara’s Antiques, on Lexington Ave and E. 73rd St., are facing six lawsuits, a complaint to the police and to the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection about their business selling treasures on consignment.” According to the Post, Sara’s proprietors Sayeh Sassouni Khorshad, and her husband Vahid Peter Khorshad, who goes by Peter, face a series of legal actions for selling the valuables of their clients and keeping the cash themselves, handing back one-off pieces badly damaged, or losing them entirely.

The Storefront is the legal community service affiliate of the Brewer firm.

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News 12 The Bronx Reports on Brewer Storefront Fraud Lawsuit Against Consignment Business

July 6, 2023 – News 12 The Bronx reported on a lawsuit brought on behalf of Brewer Storefront client Kimberly Taylor against the owners of a New York consignment business for fraud concerning more than $650,000 in antiques she consigned. The investigative report chronicled many legal actions against the business.

Taylor sued the owners, Vahid Peter Khorshad and Sayeh Sassouni Khorshad, alleging fraud in connection with the antique vases, figurines, decorative art and jewelry she consigned at their Upper East Side Estate Sale store in 2021, which later closed and reopened as Sara’s Antiques. Filed on December 14, 2022, in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, the lawsuit against the stores and their owners, alleges that Taylor consigned valuable items to Estate Sale, but was denied the return of her items and received no records or commissions of any sales.

“Unfortunately, our client is well into this nightmare a year and a half now,” William A. Brewer III, counsel to Taylor and founder of Brewer Storefront told News 12 Investigates. “Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of valuables have not been returned and are unaccounted for.”

The report highlighted numerous other former customers who also said the Khorshads never gave them any commissions on sales nor did they recover their items.

The Brewer Storefront is the community-service legal affiliate of the national litigation firm of Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors, with offices in New York and Dallas.