Prosecutors said Vega was hired in March 2011 to work as a house painter at the Schulhof Estate in Kings Point, N.

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The entire family was at risk, according to Rimsha's father - a slight man with a hunted look, who used to earn his living as a house painter.

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Attorney Timothy Parlatore, who is representing Joselito "Danny" Vega, a house painter accused of stealing artwork from a Long Island home, only learned that his client was appearing after a friend sent him a promotional video this week.

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Securing important ecclesiastical commissions in the medieval Upper Silesian towns of Oppeln and Neisse, Fey und Sohn were in urgent need of an assistant by 1936, when a twenty-four-year-old house painter named Lothar Malskat came asking for work.

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In this grab bag of narrative trickery, he tells the penny-dreadful tale of the house painter Guy Maddin (Eric Maahs), who is ordered by his mother to return to the island lighthouse where he grew up and give it two coats of paint.

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Among the most notable Italian artists in the show, Michele Gordigiani was one of Fabbri's Florentine teachers, and the official portrait painter of the House of Savoy.

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The small, soft-spoken painter has turned the house he grew up in, an old four-story building with ornate wooden balconies, into a popular restaurant for tourists and wealthy Pakistanis.

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"It's a great business model and that's the problem, " said Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush and now a law professor at the University of Minnesota.

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