Showing posts with label FBI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FBI. Show all posts
April 1, 2025

The Life and Death of Antiquities Trafficker Leonardo Patterson: A Dealer in Stolen History

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1992 photo of Leonardo Patterson with Pope John Paul II  This morning Arthur Brand posted that Leonardo Augustus Patterson, euphemistically ...
April 21, 2021

Restitution announcements sometimes don't (or can't) tell the whole story

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Yesterday ARTnews broke a restitution story that a looted sculpture was in the process of being sent back home to Nepal, thanks to the help ...
March 7, 2021

The chronology of a beloved mūrti...now on its way home to Nepal

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Image Credit: Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal 1956 Nepal's Ancient Monuments Preservation Act goes into effect. Arti...
February 28, 2019

In pursuit of restitution: FBI asks representatives of Native American tribes and foreign authorities and indigenous tribes for assistance in identifying material remains catalogued as part of from the Don Miller forfeiture

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Image Credit : FBI When US law enforcement agents raided the rural Rush county home of Don Miller in Indiana four years ago, the execut...
January 12, 2018

$10 million reward offered by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum extended indefinitely.

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The empty frames still hang on the walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.  A reminder of the March 18, 1990 theft, where, in 81 m...
August 7, 2015

Ames Stradivarius owned by Roman Totenberg Recovered 35 years after theft

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by Judge Arthur Tompkins The New York Times reported August 6 ( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/arts/music/roman-totenbergs-stol...
March 29, 2015

Indystar Reports Death of Don Miller, 91-year-old man whose private collection of artifacts the FBI seized last year

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Jill Disis reported March 26 for Gannet's Indystar that Indiana resident and electr...
February 14, 2015

Raul Espinoza sentenced to more than four years in state prison for receiving art stolen from Encino home in 2008

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Raul Espinoza by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Brian Melley reported in the Associated Press Feb. 13 (...
December 19, 2014

Stolen Art Recovered: FBI and LAPD undercover operation recovers 3/4 of art stolen from Encino residence in 2008

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Los Angeles, California -- Journalist Matt Hamilton reported December 17 in the...