Since 1990, the FBI has pursued the perpetrators of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft of over $500 million in art, including works by Rembrandt, Manet, Degas and Vermeer.  Twenty three years later, the bureau has announced that it knows who committed the thefts, but is witholding the information in hope of getting the works back.   The theft holds the disctinction of the largest property theft in U.S. history. (more…)

A Matisse painting was recovered in an undercover sting operation in Miami. The two individuals, attempting to sell “Odalisque in Red Pants” for $740,000, unknowingly admitted that they knew the piece was stolen to FBI agents, and could face up to 10 years in prison.

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