… for theft of Italian antiquities.
The public prosecutor’s office in Rome is after J. Michael Padgett, antiquities curator at Princeton, for export and laundering.
University Diaries will follow this story. But she anticipates that it will be long and murky and unedifying. Italy is corrupt to the core; so even if it’s right that some of its loot has been looted, it won’t be able to act justly in the matter.
June 5th, 2010 at 10:02AM
“Italy is corrupt to the core”… well not more than the US…
June 5th, 2010 at 11:43AM
Matt:
Transparency International – corruption perception index – has the United States at 19, Italy at 63. (List starts with the least corrupt country and goes down to Somalia at 180.)