Gordon Ivory Smuggling Prosecution on Trial Track
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| U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch |
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| U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch |
A federal prison in Maryland.Source: BOP Historical documents thief Barry Landau was sentenced today to prison. Landau pleaded guilty to his crime in February, admitting to stealing volumes of treasured…
A pair indicted for their role in receiving a stolen Henri Matisse painting will be sentenced following a guilty plea hearing held on October 30. A federal grand jury in…
September is a busy month for cultural property law cases. More activity is expected in the case of United States v. Mask of Ka Nefer Nefer soon, a case that…
Egyptian coffin seized inUS v. Khouli et al.Courtesy ICE. Mousa “Morris” Khouli pleaded guilty yesterday to smuggling Egyptian cultural property into the United States and making a false statement to…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) today arrested Eric Prokopi at his Gainesville, Florida home, where authorities also searched his house. Prokopi is a self-described “commercial paleontologist”…
In July 2012, CHL wondered whether federal-state cooperation and the use of state criminal law–as opposed to federal criminal law–to prosecute international heritage trafficking may be taking shape in New…