If you have information concerning the FBI's Top Ten Art Crimes or other crimes involving cultural property, please contact your local FBI field office, the nearest U.S.
Embassy or Consulate, use the FBI.gov tip line or call 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324)..
Art Crime Investigator
The FBI's Art Theft program coordinates an Art Crime Team consisting of 14 special agents and 3 prosecuting attorneys.
The team's members receive specialized training in art and cultural property investigations and assist in art-related investigations worldwide..
headquarters saw the need to identify a team of agents that could assist by trying to help identify artwork and antiquities that were being stolen.
The hope was that we, the F.B.I., could help return anything that had been stolen and had entered this country.
Long before that, F.B.I. agents had worked art cases.Mar 14, 2023.
Since our inception we've recovered over 850 items valued at over $134 million.
Some of the most important of these would be form a burglary, a theft, in Sweden in the year 2000, where three paintings were taken: a Rembrandt and two Renoirs.
One of the Renoirs was immediately recovered, or almost immediately recovered..
The FBI or US Postal Service handles most counterfeit art cases, largely because the fraud is carried out across state lines.
Most charges are for mail fraud or wire fraud..
The FBI has jurisdiction over certain kinds of cultural property cases—two, or rather three in particular.
First is interstate transportation of stolen property.
And we have specialized art law, art legislation, and that is the theft of major artwork statute..
Our company draws on the expertise and investigative experience of Robert K.
Wittman, the former Senior Investigator and Founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Art Crime Team..
To renew interest in the artifacts, the FBI has decided to publicize the case, providing information for the first time about the Miller investigation and the recovery and repatriation efforts.
New York-based organized crime group
The Gambino crime family is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the Five Families that dominate organized crime activities in New York City
Within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.The group
Which went through five bosses between 1910 and 1957
Is named after Carlo Gambino
Boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963
When the structure of organized crime first gained public attention.The group's operations extend from New York and the eastern seaboard to California.Its illicit activities include
Labor and construction racketeering
