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401: Robert Wittman | The Undercover Hunt for Stolen Art

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Art Crime in the United States

I started a team in two thousand five. There was no dedicated group that had training and art theft investigations or art fraud investigations. Since they, i think there's 21 people now, when that team, which is great, recovered more than, i think, a hundred nd 50 million dollars worth of stolen art and cultural property. But up until two thousand five, we didn't have that dedicated team. And that's because art theft is still considered property crime. It's the lowest level of crime that the fbi investigates. I mean, international terrorism would be number one. Art theft would be nebing number 14 out of 14, you know, fields as far as property is concerned

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