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Former Seattle Art Dealers Face Consumer-Fraud Charges.

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Feb. 27--Attorney General Christine Gregoire filed consumer-fraud charges yesterday against the owners of Thesaurus Fine Arts, a defunct Seattle store known to sell phony Asian antiquities.

The civil suit comes 13 months after a Seattle Times series, "The Art of Deception," exposed the Pioneer Square gallery, its owners, and two Hong Kong testing laboratories for certifying fakes.

The store was owned by Steven Ng Sheong Cheung, 68, a former University of Washington professor and renowned e

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