Americana given seven years in prison for trafficking in fake Picasso

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In Los Angeles, to seven years in prison, sentenced a woman who sold a fake television auction of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali and other masters. The victims swindler and her husband were more than ten thousand people, according to ArtDaily.

Investigators believed that Christine Yubenks (Kristine Eubanks) and Gerald Sullivan (Gerald Sullivan) earned on trade forgeries $ 20 million. The couple was arrested in 2006. In their house in a suburb of Los Angeles were found about a thousand imitations and four million in cash.

Yubenks and Sullivan from 2002 to 2006, twice a week were on satellite channels DirecTV and Dish Network auction of art objects that were allegedly found on the sales in various countries around the world. On the fake names were applied artists. In addition, Ewbanks was producing false documents about the authenticity of works of art.

Back in 2007 Yubensk pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion. Sullivan will make a verdict in May 2010. He faces up to six years in prison.

http://lenta.ru/news/2010/04/07/tetka/