Restitution

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• The past and the present come together in Jerusalem

  
  ISRAELITY — Authority: 432
  ho says Jerusalem isn’t a hopping place? Last night, if you were in the capital, you could take your pick of two riveting lectures by two brilliant 21st Century Jews – Professor Irwin Cotler and Sir Martin Gilbert.Cotler, one of the world’s foremost international human rights lawyers and a tireless advocate for ...
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• Balloon boy parents are sent to jail for hoax – The Associated Press

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 173
  guardian.co.uk Balloon boy parents are sent to jail for hoax The Associated Press FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The parents who pulled the balloon boy hoax in hopes of landing a reality TV show were sentenced to jail Wednesday — 90 days for him, 20 days for her — and barred from profiting from their ...
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• Parents in ‘balloon boy’ hoax get jail time – Los Angeles Times

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 173
  Globe and Mail Parents in balloon boy hoax get jail time Los Angeles Times Richard Heene is ordered to serve 30 days in jail and 60 days in a work-release program. His wife, Mayumi, gets 20 days in jail. At a later date, a call for $47000 in restitution will be addressed. By DeeDee Correll ...
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• Balloon Boy’s Bubble Just Burst

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  To the moon Alice. Balloon Boy family have been hit with a $42,000 restitution bill. Hmm, I wonder if Richard will take it out of Falcon’s pocket money, seeing it’s his friggin fault they got busted?
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• Balloon Boy Stunt Will Cost Parents Major Paper!

  
  Bossip.com — Authority: 677
  The parents of 6-year-old Falcon Heene are discovering that crying wolf can cost you THOUSANDS!!! Richard and Mayumi Heene have been hit with a hefty bill from local, state and federal agencies for the October stunt that drew global attention. The Heenes’ attorney, David Lane, said he was emailed amounts by the ...
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• Brits Go After Minor Art Fraud

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 495
  The London Evening Standard reports on one of the first prosecutions under some new laws that protect buyers from dealers. In this case, a print was passed off as a painting and sold for £450. When the buyer discovered a second version hanging in the gallery–and undercover police were offered another one–it came ...
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• Egypt to demand the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum

  
  Elginism — Authority: 127
  Egypt has made repeated requests in the past for the return of the Rosetta Stone . Most of these requests have been made to the press or at conferences – which rightly or wrongly are not counted as official requests. It now looks as though Egypt is planning on making a formal request for the return of the Rosetta ...
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• Mr. Rieff’s Mistake

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 495
  The New York Observer has an odd tale of an upstate New York handyman who decided to sell a British painting at Sotheby’s and flew to London to watch the auction. The owner of the painting, who happens to have been Susan Sontag’s son, claims the work was stolen. If it was, the thief was brazenly foolish to have ...
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• I was right! I feel so much better now

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 133
  Surprised by your dislike Have you ever had a situation where someone heard the exact opposite of what you said?  And accused you of lack of faith? It’s wildly disconcerting.  Your mind races as you try to understand what is happening and your heart sinks when you release how much the other person dislikes you. ...
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• Madoff Had No Art But . . . .

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 495
  Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal got called into an art scam that uses Bernie Madoff as a set-up. Northeast Galleries of Leonia, NJ advertised two sales in Connecticut purporting to contain “original oil paintings and prints by artists including Chagall and Picasso.” Blumenthal said that ...
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• Egypt to hold talks over Nefertiti bust

  
  Elginism — Authority: 127
  Zahi Hawass is going to have a meeting twith the director of Berlin’s Neues Museum to discuss the future of the Nefertiti Bust . Whilst no wanting to pre-empt whatever is going to be discussed, it seems to me to be a positive step, in that any meeting is better then the requests being completely ignored with no ...
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• Another success and more refunds but ...

  
  Neil Herron — Authority: 111
  the council is going to end up in a lot more trouble should someone who has paid a PCN take legal action or make a criminal complaint of misconduct or fraud. The issue at the core of this is that the Traffic Order referred to the driver being responsible for the fine, not the Registered Keeper as civil parking ...
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• Local Ish: Local Action, Local Results

  
  Food for Thought... — Authority: 129
  It is pretty amazing what can be done with a clear and direct objective and a proactive approach...Related posts: Larping (Live Action Role Playing) I saw Role Models on Friday and it was "as... Caps, Wiz and Nats In Action 2-Night If only two out of the three D.C. teams in... Local (Free) Ish: 7/17-7/19 ...
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• Fort Washington woman owes $16M for fraud scheme (Clinton Gazette)

  
  Credit Repair | Free Bad Credit Repair Debt Consolidation Loans — Authority: 139
  A Fort Washington woman accused of heading a Prince Georges County-based mortgage fraud scheme that falsely promised to help homeowners facing foreclosures has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland announced Monday.
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• Crushed Car Conundrum

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 495
  The Independent tells the story of a fraud investigation that uncovered a philosophical problem: César Baldaccini, who died in 1998, was celebrated above all for his “compressions” – sculptures made by squashing cars or fridges or other consumer goods into dense metallic squares or oblongs. To the inexpert ...
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• FBI Prosecutes Money Launderers Involved in False Advertising on eBay and Other Websites

  
  Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News — Authority: 137
  The U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia has sentenced two Bulgarian nationals to prison for their roles as money launderers in a $1.2 million criminal scheme involving false advertising... (Click on the title for the full story...)
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• Vote on the Rosetta Stone

  
  Elginism — Authority: 127
  The Guardian’s Website is running a poll (closing tomorrow) on whether or not people think that the Rosetta Stone should be returned. Please go to The Guardian’s Website , to vote before the poll closes. From: The Guardian Stolen treasure? Ignoring the British Museum’s rebuffs, Egypt is demanding for ...
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• Kilpatrick Restitution Hearing May Wrap Up Today - Michigan Radio

  
  Debt Consolidation Blog — Authority: 145
  The Detroit News Kilpatrick Restitution Hearing May Wrap Up Today Michigan Radio After enduring days of intense questioning by Wayne County prosecutors, Kilpatrick spent a few hours Tuesday, calmly discussing his personal finances under ... Restitution hearing for ex-Detroit mayor continues ...
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• Otto Lambsdorff Dies at 82; Shaped Nazi Victims Fund

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Otto Lambsdorff, left, with Gerhard Schröder in 2001.
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• Bricked Up

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 495
  Everyone at a London exhibit where a work by Gavin Turk was stolen and replaced with a similar item seems confused about how to react to the theft. One of the gallery’s founders told the Telegraph that he was intrigued by the “questions of value and worth” raised by the theft. Jack Burton, who organised the ...
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