More Fraud With Lowrider Magazine
Brian Acquafresca of Del Rio Marketing LLC., is a renter of the Lowrider license owned by MotorTrend / Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD). He has several formal complaints submitted against him via WBD EthicsPoint for mysogyny, exploitation, fraud, corruption, and more. In order for Brian to sell the licensed t-shirts, he has told numerous sources and witnesses within the established and well known Lowrider Car Show promoter community he is going to buy the trademark now owned by WBD / MotorTrend. Brian isn’t part of the lowrider community (he doesn’t own a lowrider car though former consultants advised him to get one) so he relies on real authentic lowrider and famous car owners and builders such as Joe Ray and Chino Vega. Brian and company lie to the Lowrider community they are buying the trademark in an attempt to gain their trust because they know Lowrider is like a religion to some in our community. After they do this they work with Lowrider car show promoters in an effort to get and use all of their contacts and know-how with organizing Lowrider Car Shows. After he exploits and uses these well known and real Lowrider car show promoters — he throws them away after he acquires all of the car registrant information and sponsor contact information he needs and moves on to promoters who can be better manipulated.
Though Brian lies to members and promoters he is buying the Lowrider intellectual property, here is evidence from MotorTrend’s Head of Counsel (since 2022) that LOWRIDER has not been and is not for sale. Several emails in 2023 and 2024 confirm the opposite of what Brian tells the community.
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Crap generally rolls downhill regarding Del Rio Marketing operations and the fraudulent culture of climate they produce … and now we see Carlos “Los” Fernandez contracted to do work for Brian Acquafresca’s social media and claiming he works for Lowrider and is a high level MotorTrend executive (see below).
Carlos is not a senior level executive with Lowrider Magazine. MotorTrend fired their last Lowrider Magazine employee in 2019 when they eliminated 19 car magazines (Lowrider was one of them). There is NO monthly magazine right now — only special Lowrider Magazine project featuring women under the direction of the MotorTrend Head of Counsel. The “special project” is not under the direction of Brian’s Del Rio Marketing LLC.
In fact, Carlos never worked for MotorTrend nor Lowrider magazine. Carlos is simply affiliated under a 3rd party rental license through Del Rio Marketing owned by Brian Acquafresca.
But, this is how Brian Acquafresca & Co. operates. They embrace fraudulently representing themselves. It’s a matter of time before the Lowrider community gets educated to phony people. You have one guy saying he is going to buy Lowrider Magazine trademark (when it’s not even for sale) and you have the other guy saying he is a senior level executive for Lowrider Magazine. Brian is simply a renter of the Lowrider Magazine license. Brian does not own Lowrider Magazine. Again, he rents it. Be alert and be warned of these guys. They are not the real deal. People who are claiming to buy Lowrider or claim to be a senior executive who leads and manages Lowrider magazine is FALSE and MISLEADING.
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