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Posted on 04/28/2025 8:40:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
A kid in The Netherlands could be in time out for a while.
The unnamed child is responsible for damaging a 1960 Mark Rothko painting reportedly worth €50 (about $56 million) inside the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam.
“The painting Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 by Mark Rothko has sustained superficial damage after a child touched the painting when it was on display," the museum shared in a statement to PEOPLE. "As a result, small scratches are visible in the unvarnished paint layer in the lower part of the painting."
The museum added, Conservation expertise has been sought in the Netherlands and abroad. We are currently researching the next steps for the treatment of the painting. We expect that the work will be able to be shown again in the future."
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I will without shame admit I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Could you step by step explain how this money laundering through art purchases works?
Hunter Biden?
I really the Pantheon in Rome.
Not a museum technically.
Built as a temple to the Gods by the Romans.
Converted to a Roman Catholic church.
It has great doors and the largest concrete dome in the world. Just barely 2000 years old. The concrete is still curing.
A Rothko painting is not meant for one’s living room!
It belongs in an art museum. At least some people need to know what art was like back in the 1950s and 1960s!
Hand that kid a BIC lighter.
At least it wasn’t an obnoxious grown “just stop oil” children throwing paint on it.
Money laundering is basically the process of hiding money that were obtained with stolen loot, whether it be drugs or USaid.
Depending on the amount that I have is going to determine how I get rid of the stolen money and get clean money. If I have $60,000 in drug money, for example, I can hide that by making normal purchases like groceries and dry cleaning and I can take my lawful income money, that I’m not using on day to day living, and do something else with it, like invest it. As long as I keep the money within a reasonable range of my income, it’s very hard without a forensic audit for the government to prove that I could not afford to invest the money from my income.
However, if I have more than that, than I have to do something with it and hide the money in another asset. The mob does things like open pizza shops and use the ill gotten gains to buy the supplies for the pizza shop, while selling the pizza to get money that is clean. With clever accounting, it looks like an honest business even I might be just throwing out all the pizza in the end. On paper, it looks like I sold the pizza. Lucky Luciano was an accountant for the mob and that’s what he did. He balanced out the pizzas that were actually sold with the pizzas that were “sold” to make it look like a very busy pizza shop.
Now with paintings and other assets, and I’m assuming everybody is in on this when I explain this, I will pay $10 million for a painting. The person I give the money too, which is traceable, will filter the money out in other ways to make it hard to track. Maybe he will use the money on legit things, spread over time, to make it hard to track. If the FBI found the money but it has exchanged hands dozens of times, it’s basically washed because it would be too troublesome to try and trace it fully.
I will try to explain it with the artwork of Hunter Biden we heard so much about for a few years.
It is illegal to give Joseph Biden money to get him to do something you wanted done. You can only make a campaign donation for a maximum of $2500. However, if you bought one of Hunter’s priceless paintings who is to say what it is worth. $10K, $50K, whatever you are willing to pay.
This could also be done by drug dealers. They sell someone a painting for $50K. They also give them 20 Kg of cocaine. They now have a legitimate reason to be able to afford a multi million dollar home and expensive cars. They show the IRS they have an income from ART they sold.
You reminded me of this; I bought it years ago and never put it together:
https://www.papermodelsheet.com/en/p/pantheon-rome
There are still several Italian restaurants in Boston that only take CASH. They have signs on their doors NO CREDIT CARDS/ ATM around the corner.
I am in Nashua, NH. The Burger King down the street, plus two others were owned at one point by a cocaine distributor.
He got busted by the DEA. Eventually the government auctioned off the restaurants. It made all the papers.
Again, here in Nashua there used to be a Mexican restaurant called Manyana. One Saturday night in the late 1980s the owner closed up and was never heard from again. Turned out he was also a cocaine dealer. Everyone always wondered whether he ended up on the beach in Tahiti or at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Sure he did - until he ran out of one dollar bills.
"How did that get in there?"
(Jeff Koons "art")
"After I get the boss's carpet clean it
goes back in the closet where it belongs."
Why is the top part of the painting redacted?
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I saw that at World Market.
They were charging $99 for it
Yes, the Hunter Biden School of Art and Finger Painting...
The only way garbage “art” like this has any value has to be because it is money laundering. This stuff has absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever.
The restoration probable wont be that complicated.
The inspiration behind: Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 by Mark Rothko
“I painted this when my computer went black.”
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