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The Scandal Sweeping Russia's Art Market
Forgers were buying inexpensive paintings by minor European artists from the 19th century, and "russifying" them. They added fake signatures and sold them for large sums to inexperienced Russian collectors. For instance, the forgers would replace something in the painting, perhaps a Roman ruin, and replace it with something more "Russian," like an onion-domed church. The value of these paintings went from a few thousand dollars elsewhere to hundreds of thousands of dollars in Moscow. ARTnews' story includes before and after photos showing how some works were altered to look more "Russian."
Tags: Art; art forgery; Russian art; art collectors; art value
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Scandal of the Century
CBC examines the "Scandal of the Century," a horrific event that ended up not to be true. It was alleged that "sixteen people had been charged with sexual assault. The details were grizzly: pedophilia, ritualistic abuse, tortured babies, innocent children. One of the people charged was a 14-year-old girl, in grade nine. It would soon become known as the Scandal of the Century. There was just one problem: The story was not true. Perhaps the real Scandal of the Century was how these unfounded allegations - the heart of which belonged to a single, seriously disturbed young boy - could ignite a police investigation that would destroy more than a dozen innocent lives."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Scandal of the Century; sexual assault; police; false accusations
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Tainting Evidence; Inside the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab
Tainted Evidence shows, with evidence culled from thousands of pages of FBI memos, lab reports, internal investigations and dozens of interviews, including conversations with lab chemist Frederic Whitehurst, the FBI's first whistleblower, how the FBI lab has compromised the forensic work in some of the biggest cases of the century: the Oklahoma City bombing, the Unabomber case, the O.J. Simpson prosecution and the World Trade Center explosion.
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Door-to-Door Insurance
"Door-to-door sales of low-value life insurance has been an area of scandal since the last century, and it continues today: unscrupulous agents rove poor neighborhoods cheating and stealing (from) those least able to afford the ripoff or do anything about it. Most state regulators, and consumer advocates, do little about the problem, preferring to concentrate on the middle- and upper-income market -- the market most voters and contributors use. That leaves poor Americans at the mercy of dozens of small and large insurance companies in the low-value, door-to-door market."
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE NO TRANSCRIPT Insurance; fraud racism crime forgery regulation theft