Stolen Art Challenges

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Within these two articles, I found two challenges that they face. Stolen artwork is a one of the many issues in America, however, the FBI is trying to find all stolen pieces. As stated in Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years Of Theory, Storm and twelve other works were stolen in March of 1990 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. All artworks happen to be a total of 500 million dollars, that’s a lot if you ask me. In conclusion of one out of two challenges they have come upon, today the theft still remains as the largest in American History and is now the 25th anniversary of the occurrence.

Not only was the first challenge they faced an issue but eventually the evidence to find the missing artwork disappeared. From the article Recovering

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