Arts, Briefly: Forgery Sentence
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An 84-year-old man whose family forged statues and paintings that were sold to museums including the Art Institute of Chicago received a two-year suspended sentence in London on Monday, The Associated Press reported. The man, George Greenhalgh, right; his wife, Olive, 83; and their son, Shaun, 46, pleaded guilty in 2002 to laundering money from the sale of forged artworks. In November a sentence of more than four years was imposed on Shaun, described by the authorities as the creator of fakes that supposedly ranged across the millennia, from gold and silver Roman and Anglo-Saxon works to sculptures attributed to Paul Gauguin and Henry Moore. Mrs. Greenhalgh received a one-year sentence. The police said the parents handled most of the sales. Detective Sgt. Vernon Rapley, chief of Scotland Yardâs art and antiques unit, said there was little doubt that some of the familyâs forgeries were still circulating in the art world.
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The Norwegian Supreme Court on Friday increased the sentences of two men convicted of stealing two masterworks by Edvard Munch, âThe Screamâ and âMadonna,â right, and ordered a new trial for a third convicted man, The Associated Press reported. The paintings were stolen in August 2004 in a daylight raid on the Munch Museum in Oslo. They were recovered by police nearly two years later, and are undergoing repairs for scrapes, punctures, loose paint and moisture damage. Last month the three men appealed their 2006 sentences. In answer, Norwayâs highest court unanimously ruled that the prison terms for two of the men, Petter Tharaldsen and Stian Skjold, were not long enough, considering the âirreplaceable national cultural valueâ of the paintings. The court increased Mr. Tharaldsenâs sentence by one year, to 10 Â½ years, and Mr. Skjoldâs sentence by six months, to six years. The court did reject the conviction of a third man, Bjoern Hoen, saying that testimony in his trial may have been tainted, and sent his case back for a new trial.
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut  - A dealer in antique   treasures who admitted stealing more than $3 million in rare   maps was sentenced on Wednesday to 3-1/2 years in prison after   a judge ruled that he deserved leniency for cooperating.
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A man accused of stealing two impressionist paintings in the US is jailed for three years.
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Arts & entertainment: Sentence comes after star pleaded guilty to carrying police baton in his luggage.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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Contractor charged with defrauding the company of $10 million. Also: Mass. man allegedly uses false identities to order parts.
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A man whose family forged statues and paintings and then passed them off as priceless pieces of art to museums including the Art Institute of Chicago received a two-year suspended sentence Monday.
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Hundreds of paintings confiscated from a Salvador Dali exhibition in Finland were forgeries, officials said Monday.
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SHAH ALAM: Two men and a woman were separately charged at two Sessions Courts yesterday with counterfeiting and possessing fake currency amounting to RM23,500.
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Una creazione del gruppo artistico 'cracking art'
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An Australian pleads guilty to fraud after posing as a dispossessed Nigerian to cheat people of their money. Also: eBay penalizes its own con men & hellip;. Microsoft's legal woes not quite over & hellip;. and more.
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Counterfeiters learn to make convincing copies of the shiny, embossed stickers that certify everything from software to baseball cards. By Marty Graham.
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A TAPED conversation allegedly proving Prince Harry cheated in his AS art exam will not lead to his mark being reviewed. Edexcel, the exam board which graded his paper, said it had listened to the tape made by Eton art teacher Sarah Forsyth.
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(AGI) - Turin, Italy, November 26 Ãâ For judge Giuseppe Casalbore, who issued the sentence after four hours of cabinet, there was a fraud just like the attempt to change the outcome of matches since &#39;94.
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A new digital authentication technique supplies forensic art experts with a new tool to distinguish paintings by masters from those by imitators, scientists say.