Did Italian Police Offer Deal To Art Smuggler To Give Up Museums?

A Rome prosecutor is said to have offered reduced jail time to an antiquities smuggler if he would testify against big museums like the Metropolitan and MFA. “If you accuse the Metropolitan and Getty and the Berlin Museum, Boston, Cleveland, Copenhagen and Munich — one piece each – – I can make this go away,” prosecutor Paolo Ferri said two weeks ago, according to the smuggler, Giacomo Medici.