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cbdo2007

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31. I don't think the painting existed...I think this was all a scam to launder money

Reply to Ellipsis (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 04:52 PM

Jan 2019

I mean, it may have existed previously, but if you were going to launder money wouldn't it make sense for someone to find this long lost painting and then someone overpay for it by hundreds of millions of dollars, and then it just disappear???

NOTHING about this story adds up, but the media just goes along with it all because they love the sensationalism of the whole thing.

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