The Justice Department announced Monday it had recently seized a 1909 Pablo Picasso painting, “Compotier et tasse,” from an Italian woman accused of manipulating the city of Naples entire tax system to embezzle $44 million from taxpayers. Gabriella Amati was trying to sell the painting privately in New York City in May when ICE seized the painting. Amati and and her late husband, Angelo Maj, had been charged by the Italian Public Prosecutors’ Office in Milan with embezzlement and fraudulent bankruptcy offenses.
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