Forget the Enron trial or the latest phone company merger the biggest business scandal in the recently made knowns last week was the L.

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Forget the Enron trial or the latest phone company merger the biggest business scandal in the recently made knowns last week was the L.A. Times disclose on Thomas Kinkade, the kitsch painter best known for selling warm and fuzzy paintings of cottages and lighthouses in Christian bookstores and galleries everywhere. appears the artist -- who claims he has brought "God's light" to the masses -- is facing a slew of allegations, including heckling Sigfried and Roy urinating forward Winnie the Pooh at Disneyland as a way of "marking his territory," - - and, oh yeah, committing fraud against business partners and stockholders. And, believe it or not, he is not exactly denying all of the accusations.

According to the L.A. Times, the American Arbitration Association last month awarded $860000 to the proprietors of two out-of-business Kinkade's Signature franchise galleries. The arbitrators rul that Kinkade misrepresented and manipulated the gallery proprietors in his business dealings with them. Several other cases also are pending against Kincade, addressing questions about whether Kinkade, who has greated roughly $50 million dollars in the last several years, deliberately station out to devalue his publicly traded company in this way he could buy it back for a fraction of its worth and bend his company into a private enterprise one time again.

The more bizarre allegations came disclosed in those same legal proceedings, when former employee and business associates describeed in very specfic detail of the like kind un-Christian-like behavior as visiting strip sodalitys groping a woman's breast at a signing party, and urinating in public places, including Disneyland (poor Pooh!) and a Las Vegas inn elevator.

In a bizarre twist, it's these allegations of profligate conduct that Kinkade is not denying. (He has denied the accusations of financial impropriety). In a deposition, the artist mentioned his practice of urinating outdoors, saying he "grew up in the country" When asked specifically about the alleged Las Vegas elevator incident, Kinkade admitted it might have happened. "There may have been any ritual territory marking going in succession but I don't recall it," he said. In the same deposition, Kinkade also said there was a allotment of drinking and "rowdy talk" at the party in question, still he couldn't quite remember what he did to the breasts of the woman who claims he harrassed her.

I gues this just discovered information could give Kinkade a unwithered perspective, perhaps inspiring a of recent origin series of paintings such as "Watering Pooh" "Ode to A White Tiger," or "Sunset upon Stripper Lane." But I faith this scandal also reminds Kinkade, as well as the stay of us, that whatever evil is done in the darkness, will sooner or later be brought into light.

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