{"id":179,"date":"2012-04-02T14:44:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T06:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog?p=179"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:44:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T06:44:53","slug":"shocking-situation-about-hank-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/shocking-situation-about-hank-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Situation About Hank Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-181\" title=\"hanklee\" src=\"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blogwp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hanklee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"180\" \/>Just as most of the magic community was, I was shocked to read the news over at the &#8216;Genii Buzz&#8217; forum regarding the federal charges against Hank Lee (real name Harry Levy) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicfact.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hank Lee&#8217;s Magic Factory<\/a>. Then of course after that the story went viral over all the other magic forums and blogs.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the entire article here on the <a href=\"http:\/\/medford.patch.com\/articles\/owner-of-magic-factory-in-medford-charged-with-stealing-500k-from-customer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI investigation into Hank Lee<\/a>. Also here is the pdf of the <a href=\"http:\/\/medford.patch.com\/articles\/read-it-here-facts-plea-agreement-information-in-magic-factory-case#pdf-9464351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hank Lee\/Richard Garriott stipulated facts and settlement agreement\u00a0<\/a> on the case.<\/p>\n<p>This is so sad, at least for me personally. I have looked at Hank Lee with the highest regard for most of my career. I have ordered magic from him for the last 3 decades. As a teenager and beyond I always looked forward to his newest catalog and the &#8216;Book of Books&#8217; (in the pre-internet days!). He always had all the latest items and supplies I needed and shipped them super fast.<\/p>\n<p>To see him go through this kind of humility (even though self-imposed) breaks my heart. God bless his family too as they go through this ordeal. Hope he can move on after his punishment imposed by the court and put all of this behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just as most of the magic community was, I was shocked to read the news over at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-magic-shops","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}