Those ancient artifacts that were illegally smuggled to Hobby Lobby are headed home to Iraq

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Several thousand ancient artifacts are being returned to Iraq after they were falsely labeled as "tile samples" and illegally smuggled to the US retailer Hobby Lobby, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said this week.

The move comes after ICE and the Justice Department last year brought a civil action against Hobby Lobby, saying it had received thousands of falsely labeled Iraqi artifacts from a United Arab Emirates-based supplier. Hobby Lobby in July agreed to forfeit the artifacts and pay a $3 million fine to resolve the action.

An ICE deputy director and Iraq's ambassador to the US are set to address reporters Wednesday afternoon in Washington about the artifacts' return.

The artifacts being returned include cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals and clay bullae, ICE said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/those-ancient-artifacts-that-were-illegally-smuggled-to-hobby-lobby-are-headed-home-to-iraq/ar-AAwDoOM?li=BBnb7Kz

[niyad]

1. great news. and FUCK hobby lobby

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Imagine ICE taking this action now if it had not been started when Obama was prez, right?

[TlalocW]

3. So I guess being surrounded by various depictions

Of the Ten Commandments had no effect on them when it came to stealing.

TlalocW

[procon]

4. Are lying religious charlatans worse than lying political charlatans? nt

[Aristus]

5. I've never set foot in Hobby Lobby. And never will.

I was buying a jeweled pendant for my wife once back during the whole H-L contraception insurance kerfuffel. The pendant was suspended from a fairly cheap-looking display chain. The sales lady told me I could pick up a really good, solid silver chain from Hobby Lobby.

I never could quite figure out why she would steer me to a hobby store for a silver chain unless she was an idiot right-winger.

I ended up not buying the pendant.