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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 6:42:34 GMT 7
An ex-antiquities dealer who ran a complex Los Angeles-based tax fraud scheme involving looted artifacts was sentenced today to a year and a half in federal prison for making false declarations in customs documents in order to bring stolen archeological resources into the United States. Jonathan Markell, 70, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson to 18 months behind bars followed by a year of supervised release. An undercover federal agent and an expert in Southeast Asian antiquities both testified about the extent of the smuggling scheme, which, according to prosecutors, duped Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and other institutions. Also today, Markell and his 68-year-old wife, Cari — who operated the now-defunct Silk Roads Gallery in the 100 block of North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles for 10 years — were sentenced to probation for operating a related tax evasion scheme in which the couple “packaged” and sold smuggled artifacts to give clients tax write-offs when the items were donated to local museums. A $1,500 “package” typically included antiquities from Ban Chiang, Thailand, along with false sales invoices to reflect an earlier sales date, and a fraudulently inflated $5,000 appraisal that contained a bogus expert’s signature, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Johns. Continues - westsidetoday.com/2015/12/15/ex-antiquities-dealer-who-ran-la-based-tax-fraud-scheme-sentenced-to-year-and-a-half-in-jail/
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 16, 2015 10:46:20 GMT 7
A disgrace this kind of thing....as is what happened to Cambodia during the war....so much lost...terrible.
I'd like to see tougher financial penalties....bankrupt these parasites!
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Post by me on Dec 16, 2015 11:40:23 GMT 7
A disgrace this kind of thing....as is what happened to Cambodia during the war....so much lost...terrible. I'd like to see tougher financial penalties....bankrupt these parasites! So you support the UK Queen returning the Kohinnhor diamond to Pakistan.
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 16, 2015 12:07:14 GMT 7
A disgrace this kind of thing....as is what happened to Cambodia during the war....so much lost...terrible. I'd like to see tougher financial penalties....bankrupt these parasites! So you support the UK Queen returning the Kohinnhor diamond to Pakistan. Yes and those silly bits of rock to Greece or Egypt or wherever. All stolen antiquities.
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Post by me on Dec 16, 2015 12:09:48 GMT 7
So you support the UK Queen returning the Kohinnhor diamond to Pakistan. Yes and those silly bits of rock to Greece or Egypt or wherever. All stolen antiquities. Well returning Costas marbles means that they would at least have some..they did not look after the ones they were left with very well. Of course some say Costas lost his marbles long ago but I still miss seing him here or the other place.
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 16, 2015 12:10:55 GMT 7
Yes and those silly bits of rock to Greece or Egypt or wherever. All stolen antiquities. Well returning Costas marbles means that they would at least have some..they did not look after the ones they were left with very well. Of course some say Costas lost his marbles long ago but I still miss seing him here or the other place. I suspect his nuts were chopped off by Angela Merkel.
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Post by jaywalker on Dec 21, 2015 11:19:02 GMT 7
Well returning Costas marbles means that they would at least have some..they did not look after the ones they were left with very well. Of course some say Costas lost his marbles long ago but I still miss seing him here or the other place. I suspect his nuts were chopped off by Angela Merkel. What happened to Costas? Ain't seen him in quite a while.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2015 12:05:08 GMT 7
I suspect his nuts were chopped off by Angela Merkel. What happened to Costas? Ain't seen him in quite a while. He was hounded off the other forum by both other posters and the mods. One of the longer serving mods nigh on danced on his grave by saying good riddance to him when he stopped posting. Whether you like Costas or not, one thing that you have to admit is that he was a prolific poster with many followers, so for a high ranking member of the TVF staff to crap all over him just goes to show how out of touch their mods are with reality. Is it any wonder that ThaiVisa has lost (or are in the process of losing) the only decent posters that they haven't already banned. The place is now just an empty shell.
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Post by jaywalker on Dec 22, 2015 9:29:25 GMT 7
Yeah he was an idiot maybe 60% of the time, and mildly entertaining 30% & hilarious on rare occasion.
I think he just joined again as .....Sotiros.......
.......the guy.......
.....who posts.......
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