Fancy Galleries, Fake Art
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\\nIn the mid-\\u201990s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another \\u2013 works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and others. It was the largest art fraud in modern U.S. history, totaling more than $80 million. Our first story looks at how it happened and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities.
Our second story revisits an investigation into a painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. More than half a century later, a journalist helped track it down through the Panama Papers.
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\\nThis episode originally aired January 25, 2020.