-----Original Message----- From: Lois Mauk <LoisMauk@home.com> To: CEMETERY-L@rootsweb.com <CEMETERY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, March 11, 2000 12:32 AM Subject: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] NY, NY: Tiffany Expert Gets Two Years + in cemetery art theft scheme >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.'' > >Full story at: >http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000310/12/graveyard-tiffany > >http://www.apbnews.com:80/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/03/10/tiffany0 310_01.ht >ml > >http://news.excite.com/news/r/000309/13/news-crime-tiffany > >http://www.boston.com/dailynews/070/nation/Tiffany_expert_sentenced_t o_mo:.sht >ml > >http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2000/mar/10/0310002 23.html > >http://www.newsday.com/ap/regional/ap828.htm > > > > >==== CEMETERY Mailing List ==== >If you are on DIGEST mail mode and wish to unsubscribe from the list, > send a message to Cemetery-D@rootsweb.com > In the body of the message type: UNSUBSCRIBE > These directions are for DIGEST MODE mail ONLY > NOT REGULAR MODE >Roots Web's computer will send you a message stating YOU ARE NOT ON >THE LIST if you try unsubbing yourself from the REGULAR mode mail when >you are actually on digest. THIS IS A COMPUTER GENERATED MESSAGE. > >============================== >Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > >