41 monthsprison sentence for a decade of forged provenance letters
A Michigan art dealer who forged a decade of fake inheritance letters for paintings credited to Picasso and de Kooning was sentenced to 41 months, after one recurring typeface error helped expose him.
Eric Spoutz forfeited the $1.45 million he made from the scheme and was ordered to pay $154,100 in restitution; prosecutors said he had been selling forgeries since at least 2006.
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