During this time, Sandoval made numerous long-distance phone calls, the bills for which Zimmerman said she later used to compile a list of women Sandoval had been romancing. Zimmerman said she also helped Sandoval paint his artwork and paid him in advance for artwork ordered by her customers - artwork she said he never produced. He had a reputation in New Mexico as a fine artist. I was helping him make it. That's the world we live in.
People do take advantage of situations.
Being Jewish was the special foot in the door he had in order to sell his products. Meanwhile, also last December, a publicist named Ruth Silverman in Chicago was aggressively representing Sandoval, writing and pitching stories about him to the media. She also helped book him into speaking engagements and interviews. At the time, Sandoval was traveling to conferences and lectures, where he would typically be paid a stipend and allowed to sell his wares. He is, on the surface, a very captivating man.