WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

A 2004 Nissan 350Z, courtesy of BC's Civil Forfeiture Office (CFO), was unveiled at the RCMP headquarters in Kelowna to help officers spread the message that gang life is a dead end. The vehicle, which was previously involved in criminal activity, has been "wrapped" with messaging and graphics that highlight the dangers of gang life, organized crime and the drug trade. This rolling public service message will be seen driving around Kelowna for the next two years making stops at festivals, beaches, parades and events throughout the summer and all year long.

Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2014/07/forfeited-drug-vehicle-get...

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

A recent Vancouver Sun article by investigative journalist, Kim Bolan prompted posting 3 more Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) illicit drug use photos.

1 of 3.

The DTES is the visible side of the illicit drug trade and its dehumanizing result.

This user has a hard drug pipe to snort his drug of choice, a blow torch to heat the product and a canister to refill his torch.

If you find it offensive, please move on. If you don’t want to read the entire Bolan article, skip to the final sentence, a hint to the crux of the overall problem.

Authorities charged 4 low level dealers and hope to hold them somewhat accountable in this article. That’s good. However, lawyer up and this story will have legs.

It seems upper level management in the illicit drug trade have enough levels of isolation above the street activity to escape any responsibility. Money buys obscurity and protection.

THE ARTICLE:

B.C. seeks to keep cash seized from Downtown Eastside gang

Courtesy Kim Bolan and the Vancouver Sun.

Kim Bolan is an experienced and award-winning journalist who has covered gangs in British Columbia for the past 40 years. Bolan also investigated the Air India bombing for 25 years until the publication in 2005 of her book, Loss of Faith.

The B.C. government has filed a lawsuit against a group of alleged Downtown Eastside drug traffickers, seeking the forfeiture of more than $150,000 seized from them.

The lawsuit, filed this week by the director of civil forfeiture, names four defendants that it alleges are part of a criminal organization investigated by the Vancouver Police Department.

While the group is not named in the statement of claim, details of the VPD probe outlined in the court document match an investigation into Zone 43 — a gang that originated in Montreal but has taken over the Downtown Eastside in recent years. Zone 43 has connections to B.C.’s notorious Wolfpack gang alliance.

In June, the VPD announced arrests of several Zone 43 gangsters, though they were released pending approval of charges.

The VPD said it had seized firearms, 24 kilos of drugs and $150,000 in cash during searches on May 14 in Vancouver and Burnaby.

The civil forfeiture lawsuit refers to three VPD searches done on the same date in the same cities and alleges Shayne Cozier-Flanagan, Evantee Jevontee Eustace Stoney, Tristin Johnson and Raimon Geday were “participating in the activities of a criminal organization.”

When police searched Stoney’s apartment on the 30th floor at 2388 Madison Ave. in Burnaby, they found $143,910.75 in Canadian currency and $607 in U.S. currency, the lawsuit said.

Officers seized another $5,800 at Cozier-Flanagan’s suite, also on the 30th floor, at 5665 Boundary Rd. in Vancouver, it said.

About $3,417 was seized from Johnson, who also lives in the Madison apartment, when he was arrested in the 300-block of East Hastings. Another $1,920 was found in Geday’s room in a supportive housing building on Kaslo Street, the lawsuit said.

The VPD also seized a 2017 Acura RDX, of which Stoney is the registered owner and which was used “to facilitate the trafficking of controlled substances,” the civil forfeiture director alleged.

The statement of claim notes that both Stoney and Geday have previous trafficking convictions and are banned from possessing firearms.

All four men named in the lawsuit “trafficked in controlled substances in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and the surrounding areas,” the lawsuit alleges.

In the Boundary apartment, police also found a money counter and business cards with the number to call to purchase drugs — known as a ‘dialer’ number.

In the Madison suite, the VPD also found dilaudid pills, oxycodone pills and “score sheets” documenting drug sales, collection and debts.

In Geday’s room, police found crack cocaine, powdered cocaine, crystal methamphetamine and another 275 dilaudid pills, as well as score sheets, bear spray and “miscellaneous drug packaging materials.”

The cash and car should be forfeited to the government because they are proceeds of or were used for unlawful activity, the lawsuit alleged.

The crimes committed include possession for the purpose of trafficking and trafficking, committing offences for the benefit of a criminal organization, conspiracy, money laundering and failure to declare taxable income, it alleged

No statements of defence have yet been filed on behalf of the four men.

Vancouver Police Insp. Phil Heard said at the June news conference that Zone 43 gangsters “pose a very significant risk to the public. They’re involved in a well-documented conflict ongoing in the province of Quebec with a rival group.”

Sources say the gang is still selling drugs in the Downtown Eastside.

Minister Mike Morris, spending some time in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, took time to visit The Boys and Girls club in Williams Lake. The organization is one of 8 in the region that received a civil forfeiture grant to address crime prevention, domestic or sexual violence.

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

The Province is investing over $5 million in Civil Forfeiture Office (CFO) proceeds to take further action on the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (MWCI) recommendations and support the prevention of violence against women and youth crime prevention initiatives.

Twelve grants, for a total of more than $845,000, are being provided to key organizations to address the MWCI recommendations including:

More information: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2014/03/over-5-million-to-fund-mwc...

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

33rd Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Day Services on the US Capitol Grounds / West Lawn in Washington DC on Thursday afternoon, 15 May 2014 by Elvert Barnes Photography

ROLL CALL OF HEROES: State of Texas

Dallas (TX) Police Department

www.facebook.com/DallasPD

Visit NLEOMF National Police Week website at www.nleomf.org/programs/policeweek/

Elvert Barnes 2014 NATIONAL POLICE WEEK / Washington DC docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/NPW2014

Published at washingtonmonthly.com/2016/07/13/what-are-we-asking-cops-...

Published at washingtonmonthly.com/2017/02/07/trump-threatens-to-destr...

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

The US Marshals and GSA are selling 2,000 dresses and accessories near Baltimore Nov. 18-20, 2015. These dresses were seized by the U.S. Marshals Service in connection with the criminal conviction of an Upper Marlboro, Maryland, woman who had embezzled more than $5 million from her employer in order to, among other things, keep her wedding boutique afloat. She funneled about $1.8 million of the stolen funds into her store. Net proceeds from this sale of bridal dresses and other wedding-related goods from the Couture Miss shop will go back to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the non-profit that employed Ephonia Green.

Photo by Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

WOODLAND, Calif. – The U.S. Marshals Asset Forfeiture Division held a live/online auction in Woodland, California, Oct. 26, 2019, for 148 classic, luxury and performance vehicles from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California. Total sales came to $8.233 million, with the highest lot, #236, a 2018 Prevost motor coach, selling for $1,051,225.

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

John Branom (misspelled on the marker) was my great-great grandfather, and, until recently, I had no idea that he was buried less than an hour away near Sparks, OK.

John Branom was born in eastern Tennessee in 1832 and married Minerva Farr from the same area when he was 22. They soon moved to Knoxville, where they had their first child, Sarah (my great-grandmother). By that time, Minerva's family had moved to Webster County, Missouri, so John and his new family decided to leave the security of Tennessee and try their luck with his in-laws out west.

Here's how my cousin, R. Manning, describes their lives after moving to Missouri:

"When hostilities commenced in 1861, John left his farming, and volunteered for duty as a member of the homeguard. From that he enlisted in the Phelps Volunteer Infantry Regiment which fought detached from regular Federal troops at the onset of the Civil War. He enrolled 28 Aug 1861, and was mustered into duty at Rolla, Missouri, in Company A for six months service. This was 18 days after the Federal defeat at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, near Republic, Missouri. Everyone thought it would only take a few months to put down the rebellion and then they could return home to their families. But it took longer than they expected. An error in enrollment records shows John as "Private John Brannon". Two brothers-in-law also served in John's company; Corporal Ezekial Jasper Farr and Corporal Samuel Mathis Farr.

As the Missouri State Guard began to organize against the Federals, under the direction of the Secessionist Governor of the state, they attempted to seize the arsenal at St. Louis, Missouri. Captain Nathaniel Lyon, commandant of the Federal Arsenal, moved all weapons to Illinois, and proceeded to mount a defensive to defend Missouri from the Confederate raiders. Lyon was promoted to Brigadier General and with the help of Colonel Franz Siegal, they met the Rebels at Wilson's Creek. This was the first major battle for control of Missouri, in the war's first year. Union forces were pitted against the Missouri State Guard of Major General Sterling Price and the Arkansas State Guard, commanded by General Ben McCulloch.

John was on detached duty when his regiment saw action at Sugar Creek and Bentonville, Arkansas, but he found himself square in the middle of the fight at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, also know as the Battle of Elk Horn Tavern, on the Telegraph Road. Major General Sterling Price and Major General Earl Van Dorn's invading forces met south of Fayetteville, Arkansas, in the Boston Mountains, and advanced on the "Tavern". The fighting was heated and the Confederates took the "Tavern", but were driven away. This battle was considered a Federal victory and saved Missouri for the Union. Corporal Ezekial J. Farr, brother of Minerva Branom, was wounded in the thigh during the fighting around the "Tavern", 7 Mar 1862.

John may have participated in the battle at Mountain Grove, Arkansas, 9 Mar 1862, as well. He mustered out of the Phelps Regiment on 11 Apr 1862, at Springfield, Missouri, and his company disbanded 13 May 1862. He returned home to his family. Minerva had been home tending to the farm and two young daughters. Strapped as they were, John believed it was necessary for him to rejoin the conflict, and enlisted in Company C, 8th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. He joined up in Springfield, Missouri, on 5 Aug 1862, and was mustered in 25 Aug 1862. His brother-in-laws once again joined John to serve in the cavalry. Ezekial gained the rank of 1st Sergeant and served as a recruiter in Springlfield, from Nov 1863 to Jun 1864. Ezekial's brother, Samuel Farr, was the company's 7th Sergeant, but was demoted to Corporal; he was the company bugler. Samuel died of measles and pnuemonia at Camp Forsythe, Missouri, in Feb 1863.

John was sick in quarters in Nov and Dec 1863. As happened many, many times with volunteer soldiers, they became concerned with the welfare of their families at home. Seasons changed, crips needed harvesting, and family business needed tending to, so John left his post at Bloomfield, Stoddard County, Missouri, for home. John returned to his regiment at Austin, Arkansas, but was immediately arrested for desertion. He was tried by courts-martial and found "not guilty" of desertion, but he was convicted of being "absent without leave". He was sentenced to pay forfeiture of pay and to one month's hard labor at the military prison in Little Rock, Arkansas. He dutifully served his time and returned to active military duty in Jul 1864. John was hospitalized in Little Rock for chronic dysentery, but suffered no combat wounds He was honorably discharged from service in St. Louis, Missouri, 27 Jun 1865.

With the conflict over, John returned home with other members of his regiment. He and Minerva resumed family life as before the War. He now had a son and Minerva was due with the next child in the Spring of 1866. John applied for and received his military service pension in 1891, when he was living in Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas. He moved westward to Oktaha, Creek Nation, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in Jun 1907. Minerva's brother, Ezekial J. Farr was already living in the fledgling town of Okmulgee. John and Minerva later moved to Lincoln County, Oklahoma, to live near their oldest daughter, Sarah Conner. John was an aging 77 years old and had become ill. He died in his daughter's home on 23 Feb 1909, and was buried in Forrest Cemetery, west of Sparks, Oklahoma.

Minerva moved to Winfield, Kansas, to live with another daughter, and died there on 17 Jul 1921. She collected John's military pension for many years, sometimes her only income to live on. She was buried in the South Vernon Cemetery, outside Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas."

The US Marshals and GSA are selling 2,000 dresses and accessories near Baltimore Nov. 18-20, 2015. These dresses were seized by the U.S. Marshals Service in connection with the criminal conviction of an Upper Marlboro, Maryland, woman who had embezzled more than $5 million from her employer in order to, among other things, keep her wedding boutique afloat. She funneled about $1.8 million of the stolen funds into her store. Net proceeds from this sale of bridal dresses and other wedding-related goods from the Couture Miss shop will go back to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the non-profit that employed Ephonia Green.

Photo by Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

10 years after the civil forfeiture program began, forfeiture proceeds now total $65.8M. The program takes away criminals' ill-gotten gains and compensates victims of crime and invests in anti-gang outreach.

Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016PSSG0190-001682

Title: Free The People's Land; Free Peltier

Subjects: Political Posters; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.); Leonard Peltier

Measurements: size Large 42-44

Housed: Box:1 Folder:41

Notes: This T-shirt protests the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, the person illustrated above, who is a Native American activist charged in the shooting of two FBI agents at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, 1975. The shirt is sponsored by Anishinabe Akeeng, which is an organization that aims to regain reservation lands lost to tax-forfeiture and theft. Peltier has numerous standing appeals to his innocence, has gained international support from leaders like Nelson Mandela and Rigoberta Menchu, and is currently serving a prison sentence that ends in 2040.

Preferred Citation: Ken Lawrence collection, 1940-2010, HCLA 6312, Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University.

Repository: Penn State Special Collections, University Park, PA, USA.

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

NOGALES, Ariz. - A Border Patrol Agent prepares an Inukton Pipeline Robot, used to travel down pipes and tunnels that may be too small for a person to crawl through in Nogales on Sept. 20, 2014. The Inukton has a camera mounted to the front of it and the Border Patrol Agents can control the robot and view what its seeing from a control box. The Inukton Pipeline Robot was purchased with Asset Forfeiture Funds, so it did not cost the taxpayers any money. Official DHS/CBP photo by Josh Denmark

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

The US Marshals and GSA are selling 2,000 dresses and accessories near Baltimore Nov. 18-20, 2015. These dresses were seized by the U.S. Marshals Service in connection with the criminal conviction of an Upper Marlboro, Maryland, woman who had embezzled more than $5 million from her employer in order to, among other things, keep her wedding boutique afloat. She funneled about $1.8 million of the stolen funds into her store. Net proceeds from this sale of bridal dresses and other wedding-related goods from the Couture Miss shop will go back to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the non-profit that employed Ephonia Green.

Photo by Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

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ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA E RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021: USA / ITALY - "A Trove of Artifacts Officials Call ‘Stolen’ Are Returned to Italy. The New York Times (15/12/2021) [= testo completo]; & NYC - Manhattan District Attorney’s Office & General Fabrizio Di Michele (15/21/2021). S.v., Il Magistrato Paolo Giorgio Ferri, “…Gli Americani…Ladri di Dèi!", VIDEO (2010) & NYT (20/06/2020). wp.me/pbMWvy-2ik

Foto: Il Magistrato Paolo Giorgio Ferri; in: NYT (20/06/2020).

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1). USA / ITALY - "Manhattan D.A.’s Office Returns 200 Antiquities to Italy." Manhattan District Attorney’s Office & General Fabrizio Di Michele, NYC (15/21/2021).

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Almost 100 artifacts seized from Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. today announced the return of 200 antiquities valued at an estimated $10 million to the people of Italy during a repatriation ceremony attended by Italy Consul General Fabrizio Di Michele, Italian Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (“TPC”) Brigadier General Roberto Riccardi, and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) Deputy Special Agent in Charge Erik Rosenblatt.

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--- Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, NYC (15/21/2021).

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2). USA / ITALY - A Trove of Artifacts Officials Call ‘Stolen’ Are Returned to Italy. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is repatriating 200 objects it confiscated from major museums and collections. Many were tied to one dealer. The New York (15/12/2021).

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From the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, they seized a 2,500-year-old wine cup and six other items that long predated Caesar. From Fordham University in the Bronx, they took roughly a hundred Greco-Roman artifacts valued at $2 million. More antiquities were seized from museums in San Antonio and Cleveland and galleries and homes in New York City and Long Island.

All told, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has quietly confiscated 160 objects tied to one man, Edoardo Almagià, a 70-year-old Rome-based antiquities dealer who is accused in court papers of a three-decade-long smuggling spree.

On Wednesday, 150 Almagià items, and 50 more linked to other suspected traffickers, were ceremoniously delivered to the Italian consulate in New York in what officials say is the largest single repatriation of relics from America to Italy. The value of the 200 returned items — which include painted jars and ornate vessels, marble busts and ceramic figurines — was put at $10 million.

“For years, prestigious museums and private collectors across the United States prominently displayed these Italian historical treasures even though their very presence in America constituted evidence of cultural heritage crimes,” the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., said in a statement.

Brig. Gen. Roberto Riccardi, of a cultural heritage unit of the Carabinieri, Italy’s national military police force, who flew in to take possession of the items, said that statutes of limitations had made it very difficult for Italy to prosecute Mr. Almagià. “What is most important,” he said, “is that these very important archaeological findings come back that are part of our culture identity.”

Investigators said that the individuals and institutions that held the items surrendered them willingly after being told of Mr. Almagià’s involvement. Most had purchased the items from intermediaries who had obtained them from Mr. Almagià, a Princeton graduate who lived in New York, and sold artworks there, from 1980 to 2006.

Speaking about the forfeitures of the objects, Matthew Bogdanos, the assistant district attorney who leads the office’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, said: “To their credit, every person and organization we’ve dealt with so far regarding Almagià has agreed with us that we are correct — the items were stolen property.”

Mr. Almagià — who is under investigation for, among other things, illegally transporting hundreds of Italian artifacts into the United States and filing false customs documents — at once denied the allegations against him and discounted any import violations as insignificant in an animated telephone interview.

“There are thousands of items that travel around the world without papers, and they are only asking for papers now, and in the past they never had such requirements,” Mr. Almagià said, referring to the trade in Roman-era antiquities, which is severely regulated under Italian law and under longstanding agreements between Italy and the United States.

“Why are they doing this now, I wonder,” he said, adding: “So much money is being spent to persecute dealers when it can be used to repair Italian museums, where so many similar items are already at risk.”

Mr. Almagià has been investigated on and off by Italian and American authorities for decades. A chronology of his legal entanglements, dating back to at least 1996, was included in court papers released earlier this month related to the case of the billionaire Michael H. Steinhardt, who surrendered 180 stolen objects, 10 of which were sold to him by Mr. Almagià.

In 2000, Mr. Almagià was stopped at Kennedy Airport with two frescoes stolen from the Roman town of Herculaneum, the papers said. In 2006, the year he left the United States, federal agents raided his East 78th Street apartment. As a result, he relinquished six items there that were later declared illicit.

And in 2012, an Italian court acquitted him of directing the looting of ancient Roman and Etruscan tombs. The court, however, upheld the confiscation of all relics in his possession and said his dealings had contributed to “one of the greatest sacks of Italian cultural heritage based on the sheer amount of stolen goods” he handled.

Asked about his past brushes with the law, Mr. Almagià said: “I sold things from Italy, definitely yes. There are objects in U.S. museums that are undoubtedly stolen from excavations but when they are not objects of the greatest importance, I think they should remain there so they can be appreciated by American visitors.”

This case and other recent actions, like the Steinhardt seizures, show that Mr. Bogdanos’s unit is reaching far back in time and across state lines to confiscate objects. The seizures, Mr. Bogdanos said, are warranted by a state statute that lets prosecutors return stolen property to its “rightful owners” regardless of when or where they were stolen, and because New York was “the locus of conspiracy.”

All four of the museums involved in the case said that after reviewing the district attorney’s evidence, they decided to voluntarily give up their Almagià-related items.

Hardest hit was the Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art at Fordham University, which surrendered close to a hundred of the 260 items donated in 2007 by a single alumnus, William D. Walsh, who died in 2013 and was unaware of their checkered provenance, investigators said. His collection comprised Greco-Roman items dating at least as far back as 700 B.C. and included world-class examples of portraiture and pottery.

His donation, and about 40 subsequent gifts, allowed the university to set up a free museum and a teaching and research institution devoted to studying ancient Mediterranean art. One of the seized objects, a 19-inch-high terra-cotta hydria, or water jar, depicting the deeds of Hercules, appeared on the cover of the museum’s 2012 catalog.

In a statement, Fordham called the seizures and repatriation an “appropriate action.”

“Since Fordham received the antiquities in 2007,” the statement added, “it has been transparent regarding the objects’ provenance or lack thereof, including the publication of a catalog in 2012, in part so that other researchers had full access to the relevant information about the collection. The University still has more than 200 antiquities in its collection, which will be reorganized to optimize their use in Fordham’s teaching museum.”

The Getty said in a statement: “Most of the objects being deaccessioned were accepted as gifts to the Getty 25 years ago. Whenever new information about the provenance of objects comes to the attention of Getty, we conduct a thorough review and return objects if warranted by those new findings.”

The San Antonio Museum of Art, which gave up five Greco-Roman jars and plates and a group of pottery fragments, said: “We are pleased that the District Attorney has formally announced that the objects will now be returned to the government of Italy. We will continue to work actively to remedy any legitimate ownership claims of which the museum becomes aware.” The Cleveland Museum of Art also said it accepted the validity of the seizure of three items purchased directly from Mr. Almagià in the mid-1990s.

Mr. Bogdanos said he expected further seizures and court proceedings as a result of the Almagià case. He said a potential extradition would be difficult, but added that “there are many other museums with Almagià items around the country.”

Fonte / source, foto:

--- The New York (15/12/2021).

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3). USA / ITALY - Il Magistrato Paolo Ferri, “…Gli Americani…Ladri di Dèi!", VIDEO (2010) & NYT (20/06/2020). wp.me/pbMWvy-qP

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals

Woodland, California. 24, Oct., 2019- The U.S. Marshals and Apple Auctioneering held a preview of 149 cars to be auctioned on Saturday, Oct. 26. The classic, luxury and performance vehicles are from a federal civil case involving the owners of the defunct DC Solar company in the Eastern District of California.

The preview will continue through Friday, Oct., 25, it’s open to the public and bidding is now open online.

Auction webpage: appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/185288/u-s--marshals--live-...

Photo By: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals