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Yuke ago

This was one of the things that stood out for me about JA. The amount of travelling is suspicious, and it would cost a lot of money, which is something else about him - he seems to have a lot of money for a humble three time restaurant owner.

JastheMace ago

Don't forget he is also a wealthy "Art Dealer" as well. That's how he launders the child trafficing money. Think of how subjective the value of art is. It's produced by a person instead of a factory with detailed cost, so it's value is what ever you want it to be regardless of what it is. I was in DC a few years back and went to the Smithsonian art museum, they had a 12 feet tall by 19 feet wide painting, if you can call it that that because it was completely blank, not one drop of paint on it and they had it priced at something like $150K. Same thing with antique shops, no paper record except what you make on thing with subjective value. They don't even have to prove the sold item ever even existed.

septimasexta ago

"That's how he launders the child trafficing money." This is unproven, although this angle has not been formally investigated. The art world is certainly ripe for money laundering, as are emeralds.....

"When Medellin drug lords wanted to expand their money laundering, they turned to emeralds. A decade ago, they approached Colombia's top gem traders for a marriage of convenience, hoping to gain access to the Magdalena River for drug shipping. Instead, the power play set off a bloody interlude marked by barroom brawls and gangland-style slayings, with the body of one reluctant emerald dealer tossed from a plane onto his mines."
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/11/world/bogota-journal-emeralds-luster-hides-a-darker-side.html

Remember, the raid on John of God turned up emeralds.

The art gallery promoting a TWO YEAR OLD artist caught my attention:

"Pint-Sized Picasso Making Waves In The Art World" https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/02/27/pint-sized-picasso-making-waves-in-the-art-world/

https://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations/282/chashama

septimasexta ago

"Modern art was CIA 'weapon' Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

"For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years."

I think I'll open an art gallery called C. I. Art GUARANTEED TO BE A SUCCESS! LOL!

Vindicator ago

Interesting link!

septimasexta ago

SO, HOW MUCH IS A JACKSON POLLOCK WORTH?

A Thrift-Shop Jackson Pollock Masterpiece? Ex-Trucker Claims She Scored A Multimillion-Dollar Painting For $5

"Teri Horton is a 74-year-old retired truck driver with an eighth grade education. She likes to gamble a bit, and now she thinks she has hit the jackpot. Not in a casino, but in the high-stakes world of modern art. Teri isn't the kind of person who knows—or cares—much about art. But as CNN's Anderson Cooper reports, she has caused a stir in the upper reaches of the art world because of a painting she bought years ago, a painting she now believes is the work of the famous abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock.

If Teri's painting is by Pollock, it would likely be worth tens of millions of dollars. Not bad, considering she bought it as a gift for a friend and only paid $5 for it in a thrift shop in San Bernardino, Calif." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-thrift-shop-jackson-pollock-masterpiece/

DO YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS STORY? LOL!