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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Time Limit Ends Antiquities Case Of Ex-Curator
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/arts/design/14true.html?_r=1
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Published: October 13, 2010
ROME — The case against Marion True, the former curator of antiquities at the J.Paul Getty Museum, ended abruptly on Wednesday, after a court here ruled that the statute of limitations on her alleged crimes — receiving artifacts stolen ...
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Lawsuit Filed In Pebble Beach Art Heist Case
http://www.ksbw.com/news/25239646/detail.html
Alleged Victims File Defamation Lawsuit
POSTED: 7:59 am PDT October 1, 2010
UPDATED: 9:12 am PDT October 1, 2010
MONTEREY, Calif. -- Two men who said they are the victims of a multimillion-dollar art heist in Pebble Beach last year have filed a lawsuit against ...
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
NY lawyer convicted in Dead Sea Scrolls case
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gznCOrQo0Iw8H1s_BUyqyDXHcO8AD9IIHPS81?docId=D9IIHPS81
By COLLEEN LONG (AP) – 18 hours ago
NEW YORK — A scholar's son was convicted Thursday of using online aliases to harass and discredit his father's detractors in a heated academic debate over the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
A Manhattan jury found ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Kurt Lidtke, Accused Art Thief, Agrees to Protect the Names of His Alleged Victims
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/09/kurt_lidtke_accused_art_thief.php
By Rick Anderson, Tue., Sep. 7 2010 @ 9:51AM
Categories: Arts & Culture
In May, after ex-con and onetime Seattle gallery owner Kurt Lidtke was indicted a second time for stealing great works of Northwest art, the rumor ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Co-Owner of Missing Corot, Sales Agent Spent Time in Prison
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-03/missing-corot-s-co-owner-and-sued-sales-agent-were-prison-mates.html
By Karen Freifeld, Katya Kazakina and Philip Boroff - Sep 4, 2010 12:01 AM ET Sat Sep 04 04:01:01 GMT 2010
James Haggerty. Haggerty was convicted in 2006 in a vehicular assault case and was the defendant in a lawsuit involving ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Danvers
Danvers man charged with stealing historic items from library
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/danvers/2010/08/danvers_library_thefts.html
By Bella Travaglini, Town Correspondent
Acting on an anonymous tip, Danvers police this weekend arrested a Danvers man who is accused of stealing two precious metal items from the library and selling them at an Everett scrapyard.
Police arrested Richard Provencher, 48, at ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Blanding resident avoids prison in artifacts-trafficking case
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/49885308-76/blanding-prison-trafficking-artifacts.html.csp
By erin alberty
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated 5 hours ago
Another defendant in a federal artifacts-trafficking case has avoided prison time.
Dale Lyman, 76, of Blanding, was sentenced to 60 months probation for trafficking in stolen artifacts, a felony worth up to two years in prison. He ...
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Stolen Shakespeare folio is given its day in court
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/stolen-shakespeare-folio-is-given-its-day-in-court-2004770.html
By Hugh Macknight
Saturday, 19 June 2010
A valuable Shakespeare first edition stolen from Durham university library in 1998 was displayed in public for the first time in a decade today.
The 387-year-old relic, which is at the centre of an international intrigue involving a ...
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Jobless man 'mutilated' stolen Shakespeare folio
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7835878/Jobless-man-mutilated-stolen-Shakespeare-folio.html
A jobless book dealer who posed as a wealthy international playboy "mutilated" a rare Shakespeare first folio to disguise the fact that it was stolen, a court heard.
By Richard Savill
Published: 4:37PM BST 17 Jun 2010
Rare book dealer Raymond Scott arriving at Newcastle Crown Court ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
DOJ absolves 14 NPC officers of Manansala mural theft
http://dateline.ph/?p=13428
By DateLine Philippines
Posted on Jun. 16, 2010 at 6:43pm |
MANILA, Philippines – Justice Secretary Alberto Agra has ordered the dropping of a criminal complaint filed against 14 officers of the National Press Club (NPC) in connection with the sale of the Vicente ...
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
Conn. court rules in feud over Rockwell paintings
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iG3bO40aNHIK-CoReXL...
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN (AP) – 10 hours ago
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of two brothers in their long-running feud with a third brother over an inheritance that included famous Norman Rockwell paintings.
The state's high ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Art Theft Central: Comments on Leonardo Trial
http://arttheftcentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/art-theft-central-comments-on-leonardo.html
The five men, who were charged with plotting to extort money for the return of Leonardo Da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwidner, which had been stolen from the Duke of Buccleuch's Drumlanrig Estate, north of Dumfries, during a brazen art theft four years ...
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Judge vindicates Newport art dealer over sale of painting
http://www.projo.com/ri/newport/content/ROCKWELL_DECISION_04-18-10_G5I4SSM_v8.352d873.html
01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, April 18, 2010
By Richard Salit
Journal Staff Writer
Judith Goffman Cutler points out details in the work "The Runaway" in the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the National Museum of American Illustration, in Newport.
AP / Charles Krupa
NEWPORT — Ever since ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/04/ruling_russian_schoolroom_steven_spielberg_jack_solomon_judy_cutler.php
Exonerated: Steven Spielberg's Art Dealer in Case of Rockwell Painting Stolen from St. Louis
By Chad Garrison, Monday, Apr. 12 2010 @ 1:56PM
Categories: Arts, News
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Rockwell's Russian Schoolroom disappeared during a 1973 gallery heist in St. Louis.
Daily RFT spoke to a very elated Judy Cutler on Friday as the Rhode ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
I acted lawfully over stolen Leonardo, says solicitor
Lindsay McIntosh
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7095750.ece
The accused clockwise from top: David Boyce, Marshall Ronald, Robert Graham, John Doyle and Calum Jones
A solicitor accused of helping to hold a stolen Leonardo da Vinci painting to ransom has claimed that his law firm was used to give a “cloak ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8616517.stm
Solicitor claims 'no conspiracy' in artwork transaction
Clockwise from top left, Robert Graham, John Doyle, Marshall Ronald, David Boyce and Calum Jones
Five men deny conspiring to extort money for the return of the Da Vinci
A solicitor accused of helping to hold a stolen Da Vinci artwork has denied there was a ...
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
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