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United States v. Six Paintings Seized from Paul Gorzocoski III d/b/a Northfield Auctions

United States v. Six Paintings Seized from Paul Gorzocoski III, Civ. No. 08-cv-10161-RWZ (D. Mass. filed Feb. 1, 2008).

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In 2007, Northfield Auctions in Massachusetts offered six Italian and German landscape paintings for sale, all coming from the estate of a U.S. Army veteran. The paintings, which had been part of the Bavarian State Painting Collection prior to World War II and were listed as a wartime loss, were seized by the United States on behalf of Bavaria.

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Crimes and Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C. § 981, Civil forfeiture

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