NEW YORK (AP) - An expert on Tiffany windows was sentenced to more than two
years in prison for teaming with a graveyard bandit to sell valuable
stained-glass stolen from cemeteries.
Alastair Duncan told the federal judge that his business was ruined, his
family shattered and his earning potential destroyed. "I've been shunned by
my neighbors and art associates," he said. "I've paid a horrible, horrible
price. I will certainly die spiritually if incarcerated, as will my children."
He was also ordered to make restitution of $220,000, the value of a
9-foot-tall, 5-foot-wide Tiffany window stolen in 1993 from the Salem Fields
cemetery in New York.
Quote of the day:
U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White said the sentence was ''appropriate
punishment for this desecration'' and that it ''sends a message to the
art
world that no one can profit from trafficking in stolen art or graveyard booty
and expect to get away with it.''
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