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Part 78: A New Corruption Investigation in Los Angeles - The Case of Patrick Wizmann Versus Izek Shomof
Part 78: A New Corruption Investigation in Los Angeles – The Case of Patrick Wizmann Versus Izek Shomof
Published February 16, 2024. Updated February 17, 2024.
By Zachary Ellison, Independent Journalist
The call was furtive, the source had something important to say, the meeting was urgent. So I arranged a first interview for a Starbucks on Santa Monica Boulevard near the 405 on a Thursday afternoon. Patrick Wizmann accompanied by his wife Sophie presented me with the most incredible story about one of the most powerful men in Los Angeles: prominent developer Izek Shomof. The former long-time business partners are now embroiled in a court battle amidst allegations of fraud, conspiracy, and most recently robbery and assault beneath the Art Deco buildings of downtown Los Angeles.
Wizmann is a brother to Izeks’ spouse Aline, played by “Delphine Chanéac, who perfectly captured Aline’s beauty and character” as Shomof writes in his new memoir Dreams Don’t Die published by Simon and Schuster with co-author Don Yaeger about his prior self-directed movie biopic For The Love of Money released in 2012. The marketing of the book by Tennessee based Forefront Books is the subject of a False Advertising Act claim by Wizmann, with the goal of getting the distributor to pull it from the shelves. Wizmann contends that the book co-written with ghostwriter Don Yaeger is a deliberate misrepresentation, most especially in regards to the repeated claim in the book to have led a law-abiding life in the United States, a “liar,” Wizmann loudly exclaimed.
Link: https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-78-a-new-corruption-investigation
Published February 16, 2024. Updated February 17, 2024.
By Zachary Ellison, Independent Journalist
The call was furtive, the source had something important to say, the meeting was urgent. So I arranged a first interview for a Starbucks on Santa Monica Boulevard near the 405 on a Thursday afternoon. Patrick Wizmann accompanied by his wife Sophie presented me with the most incredible story about one of the most powerful men in Los Angeles: prominent developer Izek Shomof. The former long-time business partners are now embroiled in a court battle amidst allegations of fraud, conspiracy, and most recently robbery and assault beneath the Art Deco buildings of downtown Los Angeles.
Wizmann is a brother to Izeks’ spouse Aline, played by “Delphine Chanéac, who perfectly captured Aline’s beauty and character” as Shomof writes in his new memoir Dreams Don’t Die published by Simon and Schuster with co-author Don Yaeger about his prior self-directed movie biopic For The Love of Money released in 2012. The marketing of the book by Tennessee based Forefront Books is the subject of a False Advertising Act claim by Wizmann, with the goal of getting the distributor to pull it from the shelves. Wizmann contends that the book co-written with ghostwriter Don Yaeger is a deliberate misrepresentation, most especially in regards to the repeated claim in the book to have led a law-abiding life in the United States, a “liar,” Wizmann loudly exclaimed.
Link: https://zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-78-a-new-corruption-investigation
Some breaking news in this one! I'm going to be publishing full documents for this shortly. No one new Izek Shomof had a criminal conviction until now, and it comes during a family legal dispute and right after he published an autobiography omitting the episode.
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