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LA looted art raid, including LACMA

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

According to today's LA Times, 100 federal agents participated in an art fraud raid that included four Southern California museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a local art gallery: 4 Southland museums raided in looting probe: The warrants gave agents broad authority to search the museums' galleries, offices, storage areas and computer archives for objects and records related to the primary targets of the investigation: an alleged art smuggler, Robert Olson, and the owner of a Los Angeles Asian art gallery, Jonathan Markell. Markell's Silk Roads Gallery on La Brea Avenue was also raided. The warrants are based on an undercover investigation by an unnamed agent with the National Park Service, who presented himself as an eager new collector to Olson and Markell...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).