Investigators seize $69M worth of stolen artifacts bought by Met trustee Shelby White

Manhattan investigators have seized $69 million worth of stolen artifacts bought over the years by a major Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee and art collector, according to a report.

In the past two years, 89 artifacts from the collection of prominent New York philanthropist Shelby White, 84, were confiscated by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s special Antiquities Trafficking Unit after they were deemed to have originally been looted, the office revealed in April.

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