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Criminal

Dec. 8, 2010

Art Dealer Accused of Selling Fake Prints

Pasquale Iannetti, who once operated an art gallery near San Francisco's Union Square, is accused of knowingly selling fake Miro prints to customers.


By Rebecca Beyer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Surveillance on the streets of Italy. An investigator's invisible-ink marks on the back of an alleged counterfeit Joan Miró print. Recordings of a conversation between an Italian art distributor and a local gallery owner in a Bay Area coffee shop.


These details, which sound like they could be the makings of a suspense movie, are instead spilling out in a criminal tria...

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