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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
It looks like the Getty would have little problem with looting, what with a stable political situation outside, probably tight internal safeguards, and likely a bevy of alarms. Add, too, the problem that thieves would have getting someone to buy "hot" antiquities, which potential buyers would recognize as being stolen. However, there are some "private collectors" who don't really care--they are interested in the items simply for their own personal enjoyment, and they put them in places in, for example, their houses, where no one else would have access.
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It's not about items looted from the Getty Museum. It's about items looted from elsewhere and sold to the Getty.