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Interior architect in Pittsburgh due to alleged theft, fraud and deception practices

A Pittsburgh interior design is exposed to several fees after it has been accused of punishing customers of almost half a million dollars.

Lauren Piasecki, 44, from Morningside, was taken because of illegal, fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud, the stolen business practices, said the law firm of Allegheny County on Monday.

According to the authorities, Piasecki, senior designer and founding partner of Black Cherry Designs, cheated on the victim of thousands of dollars at the same time. Business worked in Butler Street in the city of Lawreceville in the city. In February 2023 she was seen in the Pittsburgh Magazine.

The fees come from eight separate cases, including one in which a Fox Chapel woman was involved and the information from the authorities of around $ 170,000 cheated.

Fox Chapel Fall

According to a criminal complaint, Piacki's Fox Chapel customer declared that it would pay more than 5,000 US dollars for 102 billing working hours in January 2023.

Piasecki then sent the woman 12 bills from July to December of this year – for a total of $ 170,226, the complaint said.

The woman wrote several checks of Piasecki – and Piasecki has deposited each of them, the complaint says.

Apart from bathroom tiles worth 1,300 US dollars and a carpet of 4,600 US dollars, Piasecki said that it was kept in a Verona retention unit, none of the purchases.

She was charged with theft, in this case stolen property, deceptive business practices and fraud in the house improvement fraud.

The authorities claim that Piasecki “spent the means of the victim for business and personal expenses,” the complaint said.

Theft in Lebanese Mt.

The police of Mt. Lebanon accused Piasecki of two cases of theft by in June and July 2023, a total of about 13,000 US dollars for furniture and two carpets that were never submitted that have never been delivered, two cases of theft that were never delivered, according to criminal complaint.

The couple informed the police that their last communication with Piacki was an e -mail about wallpaper in February 2024.

Other cases

Online court documents state that Piacki has a preliminary hearing in front of the district judge Lisa V. Caulfield on March 5.

She will be exposed to two checks from her shop in two people in Swissvale due to bad checks due to bad checks.

Both checks with a total of more than 13,600 US dollars.

According to criminal charges, Piacki accused victims of the interior, collected funds and failed to do the work.

According to the authorities, the PNC Bank Records from Black Cherry Designs LLP created that Piasecki had made payments to credit companies and many personal expenses, including, but not limited to hotels, gymnastics -toll fees, over trips, Amazon, restaurants, supermarkets and cafés as well as hundreds of ATM withdrawals.

Overall, alleged total number of stolen funds in cases that were submitted by the district prosecutor's office of Allegheny, Pittsburgh, and the Lebanian Mt. -Libanon police authorities were $ 488,775.