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The gallery kept the lights on. The paintings were never there.

Seojung Art sold nine years of monthly returns on paintings that had already been sold, or never existed at all. A Seoul court just put the CEO away for eighteen years. The 981 people who signed the contracts are still counting what is gone.

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The officer wrote the report. The report was the crime.

A New Orleans police officer responded to a theft call in October 2019 and, prosecutors said, turned the call itself into the scheme. Six and a half years later, a federal jury saw the badge for what it had been doing.

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