He also calls for other restitutions, including returning the Parthenon Marbles.
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But last year, the restitutions panel rejected all seven claims it received.
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For us as provenance researchers, restitutions are always very special and moving moments.
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He said that contrary to Mr. Macron's remarks in Ouagadougou, all restitutions had to be permanent.
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Since 1951, after the first wave of restitutions, only about 120 among the 2,100 pieces have been returned.
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But researchers say there are signs they may be on the brink of making measurable progress in restitutions.
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He has since launched a GoFundMe asking for money for legal fees and restitutions, raising more than $85033,000 as of Tuesday morning.
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"I don't see more restitutions right now in the pipeline, but it does not mean there will be nothing ever discovered," she said.
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Those restitutions were necessary: no museum should retain a work that was stolen or transferred in violation of international law or treaty obligations.
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After a string of high-profile raids and restitutions, the Manhattan DA has created a formal squad to focus on the trade in illegal antiquities.
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One of the larger restitutions since was the 2006 return of 202 works from the Goudstikker collection to his heir in Connecticut, Marei von Saher.
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A GoFundMe created Saturday that asks for donations to help Hutchinson "pay legal fees and restitutions" for the balloon has so far raised more than $30,000.
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If convicted, they would each face a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $2.8 million, plus unspecified restitutions.
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While the horse owner pled guilty to criminal animal neglect in 2017, she only agreed to pay restitutions for the horse's medical care up until July 6, 2017.
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The fourth business, Woodbury Financial Services, recently paid about $200,000 in fines and restitutions after sanctions by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for levying customers with excessive sales charges.
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In addition, he modernized the Medicaid Fraud Unit leading to 22019 indictments and 33 convictions with recovered overpayments of over $1 million and fines and restitutions of over $200,000.
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A little over 100 looted objects, including about 50 paintings, have been returned to their legitimate owners or their descendants, since the 1950s, after the first wave of restitutions.
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The Dutch restitutions panel acknowledged the tense situation the Katz brothers faced, but said in its report that there was little evidence that the Nazis' art agents had threatened them.
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" She said restitutions would not leave Europe's museums emptied of their African holdings, because countries and communities mainly asked for "objects of special significance for their history and cultural identity.
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Two Georgetown University buildings named for slaveholders were renamed, and descendants from slaves sold to fund the school were offered legacy admissions (although there is still a demand for further restitutions).
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African governments are stepping up pressure on Western museums to return stolen artefacts following a French government report that urged mass restitutions of objects in France's national museums that were seized during the colonial era.
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" He went on to say "freedom doesn't come from more anger" and that "I think anyone who's been hurt should be able to express it, they should be able to go get restitutions […] what I'm not supportive of is victimhood.
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"South Korean trial proceedings take into account the after-the-fact attitude of the defendant when sentencing, like whether the defendant is regretful, has made restitutions, and is living conscientiously since," said Rha Seung-chul, a lawyer specializing in corporate law.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Following a string of high-profile restitutions of looted artifacts from New York City museums, dealers, and collectors, the District Attorney for Manhattan, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., has formed a dedicated Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU).
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Mr. Macron instead assigned his culture and foreign ministers to help fulfill an objective he set a year ago: to ensure that the cultural treasures of sub-Saharan Africa be accessible in Africa through restitutions, but also exhibitions, exchanges and loans.
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Soon after its release, he announced that an initial group of 26 objects at the Quai Branly Museum would return to Benin (suggesting that others be made available to their home nations not only through restitutions but also through exhibitions, exchanges and loans).
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"There is no commitment at a museum level, or at a national level, or at a political level to return these works that are in the country," said Anne Webber, the founder and co-chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, a London-based nonprofit that helps to foster restitutions.
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"If you just look at the number of restitutions, there is obviously still a lot to do," said Thierry Bajou, a curator at the Culture Ministry who works with a small team to identify the origins of looted art by combing through museum collections and archives, and by looking for markings, notes or labels on the backs of paintings.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters MORE (Calif.) and Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (Mass.), two high-profile White House candidates, came out in support of the restitutions.
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All of the money that was paid to Hall in restitutions was stolen by her new family who had access to her bank account.
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In 1991 it was returned, as a part of restitutions, to the Jewish community in Brno. In 1994 the synagogues was reconstructed. Today the synagogue also hosts small collection of Jewish historical artefacts and art exhibitions.
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Its chantry lands had passed into Crown hands.The National Archives (UK), Chancery: Cobham v ap Madocke, ref. C 1/1210/21-23. ;Restitutions In 1555 there was a concerted effort to restore the fittings of St Peter's in Westcheap.
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After this brief, but focused history of African colonial art in Western collections and the previous claims for restitution, the three further chapters entitled To Restitute, Restitutions and Collections and Accompanying the Returns discuss the central aspects of the tasks associated with such restitutions. Here, the authors suggest both criteria for restitution as well as a concrete timetable for the French and African authorities to follow. Finally, the appendices of the report describe the methods and steps followed by the authors, supported by corresponding documents, charts and figures on the collections in France as well as information on museums in Africa. Due to its extensive holdings of approx.
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Subsequently, Goudstikker's heirs sued for possession of these works, but their claim was rejected by the State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science. Official investigations, however, later confirmed the mishandling of postwar restitutions, and as a result, the Dutch government created the Restitutions Committee to review claims to art treasures in the government's possession. On the recommendations of the Herkomst Gezocht Committee chaired by , after eight years of legal battles, in 2006 the Dutch government returned 202 paintings to Goudstikker's sole remaining heir, his daughter-in-law Marei von Saher: Goudstikker's wife and their only son Edo both having died in 1996. In 2007 Von Saher then sold many of them, netting almost $10 million at auction.
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Restitutions Committee logo The Dutch Restitutions Committee (nl: Restitutiecommissie) was established in 2001 to deal with claims for the restitution of Nazi-era looted works of art to their original owners or their descendants. The rulings of the committee have been controversial with some restitution advocates arguing that they are unfair to claimants. Of the five international Restitution Committees that exist (UK, France, Austria & Germany) the Dutch Restitution Committee has the lowest restitution rate, returning only about one third of the artworks claimed. Recently the Restitution Committee introduced the controversial Balance of Interest test, which takes into consideration the desire of the (typically government owned) museum to keep a looted artwork, rather than return it to the rightful claimants.
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Intervention stocks refers to stocks held by national intervention agencies in the EU as a result of intervention buying of commodities subject to market price support. Intervention stocks may be released onto internal markets if internal prices exceed intervention prices. Otherwise, they may be sold on the world market with the aid of export restitutions under the regulation of commodity-specific Management Committees.
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Marei and Charlene von Saher with their lawyer and researcher at the opening of the exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum The exhibition was organized as a way to gain publicity for the issue of Nazi plunder and to show the works included in the 2006 Goudstikker restitution of 202 paintings. The heirs continue their search for lost paintings and have successfully negotiated additional restitutions since 2006.
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A drunken youth had started a fire at the church, unaware of recent tar work and nearby tar containers, accidentally causing a large conflagration. He was later sentenced to a short prison term and restitutions of 4.3 million euro. The red-coloured wooden storage buildings on the riverside are a proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Old Town is a significant source of tourism in the area.
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In 1990 President of the United States George H.W. Bush appointed Schiavo as the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Schiavo began campaigns to curb the sale of unapproved aircraft parts. The investigations under Schiavo, by 1996, lead to over 150 criminal convictions and over $47 million USD in restitutions and fines. The resulting prison sentences from the convictions ranged up to five years per person.
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In 901, Emperor Zhaozong gave Luo the greater honorary chancellor title of Shizhong ().Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 262. In 904, Zhu, who had Emperor Zhaozong under his physical control, forced Emperor Zhaozong to vacate the imperial capital Chang'an and move the capital to Luoyang. Zhu ordered his allied circuits to contribute in constructing palaces and various imperial restitutions in Luoyang, and Luo sent his army to build the imperial ancestral temples at Luoyang.
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Rudé právo, Československá mládež je jednoznačně pro přestavbu, 13 November 1989, front page, photographer Eman Uher After the Velvet Revolution he became a partner in the law office of professor Milan Bakeš, where he focused on restitutions of real estate seized by the communists after coup d'état in 1948. In July 1992 Sekyra co-founded a real estate agency and gradually became involved as developer and investor in several real estate projects, including refurbishments of pre-fabricated paneláks.
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Shapiro M. (1968), The Still Life as a Personal Object in The reach of Mind: essays in memory of Kurt Goldstein, ed. by M. Simmel, New York: Springer Publishing, 1968. During the 1930s mentions of soil carried connotations which are lost for later readers (see Blood and Soil). Problems with both Heidegger and Schapiro's texts are further discussed in Jacques Derrida's Restitutions - On Truth to SizeDerrida J., (1978), The Truth In Painting, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
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All the information used for this article is from the Restitutions Committee [RC. 1.89]-[9 February 2009], unless otherwise specified. Mautner tried to get an exit visa for the United States with the help of his brother, who lived in New York. In December 1943 Mautner was removed from his home in Amsterdam during a raid and transported to Westerbork transit camp and from there to TheresienstadtPrisoners of Ghetto Theresienstadt (1940-1945) Database Personal records concentration camp.
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Since 2000 (founding of the Committee) till March 2019 more than 2000 complaints of human rights violations were processed by the Committee. As a result of legal activities of the organisation 189 cases of torture were proved in courts, more than 140 law enforcement employees were convicted, restitutions totalling more than 70 million roubles (about 1milion USD) were adjudged to the victims, 885 illegal court decisions were revoked and 36 legal cases were won in ECtHR.
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The U.S. government, standing on this arbitrary principle, refused to pay restitutions, even when a United Nations General Assembly resolution on the matter had been passed. "Appraisals of the ICJ's Decision. Nicaragua vs United States (Merits)" In 1982, legislation had been enacted by US Congress to prohibit further direct aid to the Contras. Reagan's officials attempted to illegally supply them out of the proceeds of arms sales to Iran and third party donations, triggering the Iran-Contra Affair of 1986–87.
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France was wild with excitement about him. His appeals were so powerful that in a mission which he preached at Chalon- sur-Saône in 1745 there were restitutions to the amount of 100,000 francs. His reputation as an orator was so great that even Massillon was unwilling to preach in his presence. In the course of his missions he established what he called "peace tribunals", courts composed of some of his associate missionaries, a number of irreproachable laymen, and the parish priest.
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Most of the members of the 414s were not prosecuted, in various agreements to stop their activities and pay restitutions. Wondra and another defendant each pleaded guilty on two counts of "making harassing telephone calls". As a result of news coverage, congressman Dan Glickman called for an investigation and new laws about computer hacking. Neal Patrick testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on September 26, 1983 about the dangers of computer hacking, and six bills concerning computer crime were introduced in the House that year.
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He is the first to plead guilty in the U.S. in connection to the Panama Papers leak. On February 28, 2020, a Massachusetts accountant, Richard Gaffey, became the second person to plead guilty to charges related to the Panama Papers. Judgments against both von der Goltz and Gaffey were delivered in September 2020 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, resulting in 87 months imprisonment and over $17.7 million in asset forfeitures, restitutions, and fines between the two defendants.
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Fischer acknowledged that he had acquired them from Hofer and knew them to be looted but claimed that he had been unable to return them.Harclerode, pp. 136-137. The Swiss government was forced to return some looted works of art to their original owners, despite the Swiss Syndicate of Art Dealers instructing its members not to provide any information on the topic. In the 1950s, Theodor Fischer sued the Swiss government for compensation of over one million Swiss Francs in respect of these restitutions but was awarded only 200,000 francs in settlement.
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However, in 1994 the Pushkin Museum admitted it possessed the Trojan gold.Tolstikov, 2007. Russia keeps what the West terms the looted art as compensation for the destruction of Russian cities and looting of Russian museums by Nazi Germany in World War II. A 1998 Russian law, the Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as a Result of the Second World War and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation, legalizes the looting in Germany as compensation and prevents Russian authorities from proceeding to restitutions.
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In 1814, he was sent to Paris to demand restitution of books taken by the French, and he attended the Congress of Vienna as Secretary of Legation in 1814–1815. Upon his return from Vienna, he was sent to Paris again to secure book restitutions. Meanwhile, Wilhelm had obtained a job at the Kassel library, and Jacob was made second librarian under Volkel in 1816. Upon the death of Volkel in 1828, the brothers both expected promotion, and they were dissatisfied when the role of first librarian was given to Rommel, the keeper of the archives.
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As African countries such as Mali, Nigeria, or Namibia have, for several decades, made requests for restitution to France, Great Britain and Germany, the report by Sarr and Savoy has prompted positive comments and generated high expectations by commentators in Africa. Concrete results remain to be seen, even several months after Macron's announcement of a speedy return of 26 pieces to Benin. However, some African curators also have reacted critically to one-sided European initiatives regarding restitutions. A curator of the National Museum of Tanzania , for example, said that first of all, African experts have to be involved.
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Besides this legion Caesar had the veteran 6th legion he had brought from Alexandria, which had lost many men in previous combats and was reduced to 1,000 men, and two legions which had fought with Domitius. Caesar received envoys from Pharnaces who asked him not to start hostilities and said that Pharnaces would obey his instructions. Caesar replied that he would be fair if Pharnaces kept his promise and ordered him to withdraw from Pontus and make restitutions to Rome's allies and Roman citizens. He would accept his gifts (Pharnaces had sent him a golden crown) only after he had done what he was asked.
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The Parmesan collections were established in Renaissance times by the Farnese family, with Pope Paul III and cardinal Alessandro Farnese. In 1734 Charles III of Spain had most of the works moved to Naples: some were kept thanks to the intervention of Philip, Duke of Parma, and later the collection was increased with the addition of Greco-Roman findings, donations and restitutions from Naples, as well as through acquisitions under Duke Ferdinand (1758). During the French occupation of Parma (1803–1814), the works were moved to Paris, returning in 1816. Duchess Marie Louise reordered the collections in the Palazzo della Pilotta and built the hall which now brings her name.
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Recent developments involve an intensifying of the semiological approach according to Dom Cardine, which also gave a new impetus to the research into melodic variants in various manuscripts of chant. On the basis of this ongoing research it has become obvious that the Graduale and other chantbooks contain many melodic errors, some very consistently, (the mis-interpretation of third and eighth mode) necessitating a new edition of the Graduale according to state-of-the-art melodic restitutions. Since the 1970 a melodic restitution group of AISCGre (International Society for the Study of Gregorian Chant) has worked on an "editio magis critica" as requested by the 2. Vatican Council Constitution "Sacrosanctum Concilium".
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On November 6, 2018, Florida voters approved Amendment 4, an amendment to the state constitution to automatically restore voting rights to convicted felons who have served their sentences. Lifetime bans still apply for those convicted of either murder or sexual offenses. In July 2019, Republicans in Florida's state legislature enacted Senate bill 7066, that declared that felons must pay all outstanding fines, fees and restitutions before they are deemed to have “served their sentence”, and thus regaining their right to vote. On February 19, 2020, a three-judge panel of the 11th circuit federal appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional to force Florida felons to first pay off their financial obligations before registering to vote.
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Lifetime bans continued to apply for those convicted of murder or sexual offenses. The amendment went into effect on January 8, 2019, making an estimated 1.4 million people with felony convictions eligible to register to vote. In July 2019, Republicans in Florida's state legislature enacted Senate bill 7066, that declared that felons must pay all outstanding fines, fees and restitutions before they are deemed to have “served their sentence”, and thus regaining their right to vote. On February 19, 2020, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Federal Appeals Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to require felons to first pay off their financial obligations before being permitted to register to vote.
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Even before the report was published, Macron's announcement provoked both affirmative or critical, and even negative comments. Despite the announcement by the French president of a timely restitution, the legal requirements for such restitutions are by no means given: In France, all public assets, including the collections of public collections, such as museums, libraries or other cultural institutions, are regarded as inalienable. Contrary to some public reactions by museum curators and journalists, however, the report does not recommend a sweeping return of all African cultural heritage from France. Rather, Sarr and Savoy propose that bilateral diplomatic arrangements be made for the restitution of significant pieces on the basis of proposals by African experts.
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As a general recommendation, however, the authors plead for a permanent restitution of illegally acquired cultural objects. They explicitly reject the temporary return of such items mentioned by Macron and proposed by some museum curators. The nature of future restitutions from France thus depends on political decisions to change the legal framework and the entry into international contracts as proposed by the report. At a conference in June 2019, attended by some 200 academics and representatives of Ministries of Culture from Europe and Africa, the French Minister of Culture only pledged that "France will examine all requests presented by African nations", but asked them not to "focus on the sole issue of restitution".
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EEC export restitutions (subsidies) undercut U.S. sales, with the result that farm-state Members of Congress, led by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, pushed through new legislation authorizing broader subsidization of commercial export sales. This Export Enhancement Program (or EEP, though it was originally called "BICEP" by Senator Dole) was used primarily to counter EEC subsidies in important markets. Use of EEP opened the United States to criticism from less developed countries on the grounds that export subsidies undercut their own farmers by depressing global commodity prices. By the mid-1990s EEP was largely abandoned in favor of negotiating for a multilateral ban on agricultural export subsidies; it was last used, for a single sale, during the Clinton administration.
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The custom is of comparatively recent origin and is not mentioned in the Shulchan Aruch. It appears to have been inaugurated in the sixteenth century at Safed by the kabbalist Moses Cordovero,Da Silva, "Peri Ḥadash," Rosh Ḥodesh, § 417 who called the fast Yom Kippur Katan; and it was included by Isaac Luria in his Seder ha-Tefillah. R. Isaiah Horowitz refers to it by that name, and says it should be observed by fasting and repentance: "Following the custom of the very pious, one must repent of his ways and make restitutions both in money and in personal acts, in order that he may enter the new month as pure as a new-born infant".Shelah, ed.
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Keeping the focus not only on national security but also on threats to citizens of the United States, the FBI has long been focused on identity theft, which is a growing concern for American citizens. Since fiscal year 2008 through the middle of fiscal year 2013, the number of identity theft related crimes investigated by the Bureau across all programs have resulted in more than 1,600 convictions, $78.6 million in restitutions, $4.6 billion in recoveries, and $6.8 billion in fines. High priority is given to investigations that involve terrorist organizations or intelligence operations sponsored by foreign governments, which FBI calls "national security cyber intrusions". The Cyber Division has primary responsibility for the FBI's efforts to counter national security–related cyber intrusions.
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Other restitution laws were the Gesetz zur Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts im öffentlichen Dienst (BWGöD) for (former) employees of public service institutions of May 11, 1951, and the Bundesgesetz zur Regelung der rückerstattungsrechtlichen Geldverbindlichkeiten des Deutschen Reiches und gleichgestellter Rechtsträger (Bundesrückerstattungsgesetz, BRüG) of July 19, 1957. The BErG/BEG deals with compensatory payments for suffered personal damage, while the BRüG covers restitutions for expropriated property. Claimants had to file their claims in order to receive payments; the term for filing claims under the BEG expired on December 31, 1969. After the fall of the German Democratic Republic and the reunification of Germany 1990, German authorities had to wrestle with the enormous complexity of applying these laws and former GDR law in addressing property claims.
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Shortly thereafter, the three friends receive the letters that Cynthia mailed to them before her suicide. After each one reads her letter from Cynthia, and feeling that they have been taken for granted by their husbands, the women decide to create the First Wives Club, aiming to get restitutions from their exes. Annie's lesbian daughter Chris (Jennifer Dundas) also gets in on the plan by asking for a job at her father's advertising agency so she can supply her mother with inside information, as payback for Aaron's unfairness toward Annie. Brenda finds out through her uncle Carmine (Philip Bosco), who has Mafia connections, that Morty is guilty of income tax fraud, while Annie makes a plan to revive her advertising career and buy out Aaron's partners.
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In 1997, Prime Minister Alain Juppé initiated the Mattéoli Commission, headed by Jean Mattéoli, to investigate the matter and according to the government, the Louvre is in charge of 678 pieces of artwork still unclaimed by their rightful owners.Rickman, p. 294 During the late 1990s, the comparison of the American war archives, which had not been done before, with the French and German ones as well as two court cases which finally settled some of the heirs' rights (Gentili di Giuseppe and Rosenberg families) allowed more accurate investigations. Since 1996, the restitutions, according sometimes to less formal criteria, concerned 47 more pieces (26 paintings, with 6 from the Louvre including a then displayed Tiepolo), until the last claims of French owners and their heirs ended again in 2006.
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Despite its relatively short colonial history, limited to a few African countries such as Tanzania, Namibia, Cameroon and Togo, a very large number of African cultural objects are in German public collections. One prominent example is the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, which is scheduled to be reopened as part of the future Humboldt-Forum in September 2020. Similar questions to those raised by Sarr and Savoy have led to intensive public discussions about Germany's colonial past and its colonial collections. Given that cultural policy in Germany is the domain of the different federal states (Länder) and that many museums are independent or semi-public institutions, museum directors face less legal obstacles to restitution than in France, and there have been several cases of recent restitutions, for example to Namibia.
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Although the Sarr/Savoy report and the accompanying debates refer to the restitution of cultural heritage from Africa, Macron's announcement on his first visit to Africa as president of France stands in the wider context of the history, present and future of French and European Africa policy. In view of the growing political emancipation of some African countries from France, as well as the growing influence of China in Africa, French foreign policy is interested to maintain and develop its privileged relationship with West African countries and the wider Francophone world. Finally, the discussions and the ethical justification of restitutions are examples of a changing view of European colonialism in Africa. Due to each country's colonial past and the present public assessment of this past, this historical re-evaluation has taken different paths in France, Great Britain, Belgium and in Germany.
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G. Bohn) pages 230–232 At the outbreak of the First English Civil War in 1642, Blood returned to England and initially took up arms with the Royalist forces loyal to Charles I. As the conflict progressed he switched sides and became a lieutenant in Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads. In 1653 at the cessation of hostilities Cromwell awarded Blood land grants as payment for his service and appointed him a justice of the peace. Following the Restoration of King Charles II to the Crowns of the Three Kingdoms in 1660, Blood fled with his family to Ireland. The confiscations and restitutions under the Act of Settlement 1662 (which sought to cancel and annul some of the grants of land and real properties allocated as reward to new holders being Cromwellians under the Act of Settlement 1652) brought Blood to financial ruin, and in return Blood sought to unite his fellow Cromwellians in Ireland to cause insurrection.
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The contemporary museum director in the Louvre had no doubt around the legality of the acquisition of Lord Elgin. During the art restitutions of post-napoleonic France to other European States, Vivant Denon, then director of former Musee Napoleon then Louvre, wrote in a private letter to the French ambassador Talleyrand who was then engaged in the Congress of Vienna: "If we yield to the claims (for art restitution) of Holland and Belgium, we deprive the Museum of one of its greatest assets, that of having a series of excellent colorists... Russia is not hostile, Austria has had everything returned, Prussia has a restoration more complete.... There remains only England, who has in truth nothing to claim, but who, since she has just bought the bas-reliefs of which Lord Elgin plundered the Temple at Athens, now thinks she can become a rival of the Museum [Louvre], and wants to deplete this Museum in order to collect the remains for her" (Denon to Talleyrand, quoted in Saunier, p. 114; Muintz, in Nouvelle Rev., CVII, 2OI).
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On July 15, 2020, the French government announced a draft law that allows for the permanent restituion of cultural objects from French collections to Senegal and Benin. Already in November 2019, the French prime minister had presented an historic sabre to the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar that is said to have belonged to Omar Saïdou Tall, a prominent 19th-century West African spiritual leader who fought French colonialists in the 1850s. This symbolic item,As French historian Francis Simonis pointed out, the sabre of Hadj Omar Tall actually is not an African object, but a European weapon, made for the French Army in the 19th century and taken back to France from Ségou in the modern state of Mali. as well as 26 African statues, that had been looted by French troups during the sacking of Abomey Palace in 1892 and donated by the French colonel Alfred Dodds to a predecessor of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, will be the first permanent restitutions under the new law.
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After ample success had attended this undertaking, these proprietors availing themselves of his objections to the enterprise, attempted to reject his pretensions and insisted on his relinquishing his share to them. This however he successfully resisted asserting to these partners that having now become possessed of property belonging to another, unexpectedly and against his wish, he should consider himself in the capacity of Trustee for the original proprietors, 'till the period should arrive when he might be enabled to effect its restitutions. Several vessels were captured, but on two only were any returns effected to bear the expense that would attend the equal restitution among the numerous and uncertain Claimants. It is somewhat remarkable that tho these transactions occupied such a series of years anterior and subsequent to the War that tho five of his children had attained adult age and the remaining two not very remote from that period; and lastly, that tho our Mother was esteemed a discreet, and excellent Wife and had always to the best of our belief in other matters his entire confidence; yet, that not one of his family had ever entertained the slightest idea of his having been so concerned.
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