«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

«It is hard to imagine a business more custom-made for money laundering, with million-dollar sales conducted in secrecy and with virtually no oversight. What this means in practical terms is that "you can have a transaction where the seller is listed as 'private collection' and the buyer is listed as 'private collection,'" said Sharon Cohen Levin, chief of the asset forfeiture unit of the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan. "In any other business, no one would be able to get away with this."

-New York Times