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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Nazi Looted Art and Cocaine: When Museum Directors Take It, It Call the Cops
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The Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, as part of their Nuremberg volume, just published my article: Nazi Looted Art and Cocaine: When Museum Directors Take It, Call the Cops. Check out Volume 14 here.
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As such, Nazi looted art should be treated as a contraband substance, like cocaine, and should be returned to its true owners under the common law precept that no one can take good title from a thief.
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The article arguest that it is time for prosecutors to act and that the National Stolen Property Act gives them a weapon to do so. They have the weapons and evidence, only the political courage to confront powerful museums with the evidence is lacking. The article argues that museums, colleges and individuals who use technical defenses to keep stolen property as the Toledo Museum of Fine Art, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the MoMA and the Guggenheim have done bring only disgrace upon themselves and don’t clean title to the stolen goods.
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The article further argues that this is not a victimless crime because the wealthy donors who have “donated” the stolen artworks to museums got a tax break for the “fair market value” of the artworks.
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Dowd, Raymond J. (MC1986)
[JR: SO then, since the IRS has so much time to spend on "conservatives", they should go after the donors for tax fraud. That's what brought down Capone?]
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