White Collar Crime
Retired Mass. Lawyer is Convicted in Major Art Theft Case
Posted Aug 19, 2008, 11:28 am CDT
By Martha Neil
A retired Massachusetts lawyer was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of possessing stolen goods in a convoluted art theft case that reads like a true-crime paperback.
Seven paintings including a Cezanne that sold at auction, years later, for nearly $30 million, were allegedly stolen in 1978 from a home in Stockbridge, Mass., by David Colvin, in what is believed to be the largest private art theft in state history. Colvin, who was a client of attorney Robert Mardirosian, was shot to death in 1979. But, according to court documents, he left the paintings in an office loft owned by his lawyer, who discovered them in 1980, reports the Boston Globe.
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