This goes against everything Chris Marinello says he stand for in regards morals and ethics in stolen art recoveries.
Are we to believe Chirs Marinello has had a change of heart, gone off the reservation, along with the Gardner Museum and FBI?
Do they want us to believe Chris Marinello will pay out the Gardner heist reward without any scrutiny, if so, then why not issue a Gardner Art Reward Price List to give further encouragement.
Perhaps a lesser valued stolen Gardner artwork can be used as a test balloon.
Chris Marinello wrote this on his website:
https://www.artrecovery.com/campaigns/view-campaign/c2RpbU3HLB-CSIYkXbgxxris5d4SvHQ2jx-iojtdq9ynJ40JAaI0tHrFX0P8yDrn1TA54d5V1WJOb3N9YZsA4WMAoQDPoDDt
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2020 marks a rotten anniversary for any art-lover: thirty years since thieves bolted off with 13 precious artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Two robbers dressed to impersonate police officers carried out this infamous heist, considered to be the biggest unsolved art theft in world history.
Since that night in 1990, quite a few real police officers have joined the international hunt for the 13 artworks, not to mention lawyers, art experts, and lately even podcasters.
Valued at over $600 million (although valueless in the marketplace as stolen objects) the search for masterworks by the likes of Vermeer, Manet, Rembrandt, and Degas stays alive and relevant thanks to current museum security director Anthony Amore, whose museum is offering the largest reward ever offered by a private institution — $10 million for information leading to the art's recovery.
What is keeping someone from turning in the art and collecting a cool $10 million? Perhaps mistrust of the FBI’s and local prosecutors’ promise that no one will be prosecuted for the crime.
That’s why Art Recovery International’s founder and lawyer Christopher A. Marinello has, with the consent of law enforcement, offered to serve as a pro-bono intermediary between the possessors and the museum. ARI will happily exchange the reward and artwork through attorney’s escrow.
In this way, those collecting the reward will never have to deal directly with museum security or law enforcement.
Marinello’s message to the possessors is simple: “Thirty years is enough; you are not going to get a better deal than the one on the table. Return the artwork and pocket the $10 million before someone else goes around you and collects it for themselves”.
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Chris Marinello, Anthony Amore and the FBI are sending mixed messages, two faces of the same coin?
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Thaank you for writing this
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