"He didn't send anyone to a soup kitchen,he didn't foreclose anyone's mortgage..." —CBS broadcaster Bob Simon
Below is an extract from 'The Con Artist', an edition of the CBS programme '60 Minutes', and which aired on February 23rd,in which host Bob Simon interviews German art criminal Wolfgang Beltracchi. Simon alights on a truism of high-ticket art forgery, namely that the victims are invariably very wealthy individuals rather than those at the lower end of the income scale.
[br]There may be a delightful irony in that some of the wealthy individuals responsible for immiserating countless thousands of low-paid workers during the credit crunch are the main victims of egregious art forgers like Beltracchi.
accurate, and he may not have sent anyone to a soup kitchen or foreclosed anyone's mortgage,but his is not a victimless crime.
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