“Beauty Provoketh Thieves Sooner than
Gold”
Trends in Art Crime
ROBERT GICZY, SPECIAL AGENT, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
GARY STEIN, PARTNER, SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLP
DEREK FINCHAM, PROFESSOR OF LAW,
LINDSEY LAZOPOULOS FRIEDMAN, MODERATOR
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“Beauty Provoketh Thieves Sooner than
Gold”
Trends in Art Crime
ROBERT GICZY, SPECIAL AGENT, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
GARY STEIN, PARTNER, SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLP
DEREK FINCHAM, PROFESSOR OF LAW,
LINDSEY LAZOPOULOS FRIEDMAN, MODERATOR
Statutes used for Federal Criminal
Prosecution
Art/Cultural Property Specific Money Laundering, Title 18 U.S.C. § 1956 Wire Fraud, Title 18 U.S.C. § 1343 Theft from Interstate Shipment, Title 18 U.S.C. § 659 National Stolen Property Act/Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 2314, 2315 Theft of Major Artwork, Title 18 U.S.C. § 668 Illegal Trafficking in Native American Human Remains and Cultural Items, Title 18 U.S.C. § Archaeological Resources Protection Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 470aa-470mm
National Stolen Property Act/Interstate Transportation of
Stolen Property and Wire Fraud
United States of America v. James Meyer ,
S.D. N.Y. 13-cr-
Meyer, an assistant to Jasper Johns, sold works he took from Johns’ studio
Charged with Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property and Wire Fraud Sentenced to 18 months imprisonment Restitution of $13 million Forfeiture of $3.9 million
Meyer with Johns at Johns’ Connecticut studio
Theft of Major Artwork
United States v. Barry Landau and Jason James
Savedoff , D. MD. 11-cr-
Defendants posed as researchers and stole documents and manuscripts from numerous museums, historical societies, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, part of the National Archives.
Stole more than 6,000 documents and included documents signed by George Washington, John Adams, Franklin Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette, Karl Marx and Sir Isaac Newton.
Charged with conspiracy to commit theft of a major artwork
Landau sentenced to seven years in prison and restitution of $46,525.
Wire Fraud & Money Laundering:
United States v. Jose Carlos Bernantinos Diaz, Jesus Angel
Bergantinos Diaz, and Pei Shen Qian , S.D.N.Y. 14-cr-
Rosales’ cooperation led to indictment
against leaders of major international art
fraud conspiracy and the artist creating the
forged works, Pei Shen Qian
Defendants were charged with: Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud Substantive Wire Fraud Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering Substantive Money Laundering Conspiracy to Defraud the IRS False and Fraudulent US Tax Returns Willful Failure to File Reports of Foreign Banks and Financial Accounts False statements to Federal Agents Indictment seeks forfeiture of more than $33 million Defendants fled to Spain and China
Attempt to Evade or Defeat Tax, 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Eubanks ran “Fine Art Treasures Gallery,” selling fake artworks by Picasso, Dali,
and Chagall through a rigged televised art auction
Charged with §371 Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Mail Fraud, and
Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, and a substantive count of filing a
false income tax return.
Sentenced to 84 months in Prison and forfeited more than $3.8 million dollars
United States v. Kristine Eubanks ,
C.D. Cal. 07-cr-
Civil Remedies
District Court entered a permanent injunction, enjoining Defendants’ from sending any mailers or solicitations.
Parties entered a consent decree requiring the defendants to forfeit their customer lists and information and prohibited defendants from retaining any copies of such information.
United States sued for an injunction based on mailers that Defendants sent out, informing recipients that they had won pieces of art and other prizes, but need to pay a fee to claim the prize.
Mailers included bogus certificates of authenticity
United States v. Eugene Marotta, Art Masters, LLC, Palm Beach Liquidation Gallery, and William Clutter , S.D. Fla. 18-cv-