Michael Steinhardt - looting sex-creep mega-donor jew gets sweetheart legal deal

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In deal to avoid prosecution, Michael Steinhardt is barred for life from collecting antiquities
https://www.jta.org/2021/12/06/united-states/in-deal-to-avoid-prosecution-michael-steinhardt-is-barred-for-life-from-collecting-antiquities

(JTA) — Michael Steinhardt, the hedge funder and megadonor to Jewish causes, has agreed to surrender 180 stolen antiquities worth $70 million to their rightful homelands and to never again collect ancient artifacts.

In exchange, Steinhardt will avoid criminal charges related to an investigation that found he had acquired, owned and sold more than 1,000 looted items over the past three decades.

Those are the terms of a deal that Steinhardt finalized Monday with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, whose office began investigating several years ago over a Lebanese statue that Steinhardt loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That statue, they concluded, was illegally taken from Lebanon — making it like countless other objects that Steinhardt had amassed over the years, largely from Middle Eastern countries.

Steinhardt's lawyers and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance issued separate statements Monday, CNBC reported, with vastly different takes on intent: Steinhardt said he bought the items in good faith, but Vance was not buying it.

"For decades, Michael Steinhardt displayed a rapacious appetite for plundered artifacts without concern for the legality of his actions, the legitimacy of the pieces he bought and sold, or the grievous cultural damage he wrought across the globe," Vance said in a separate statement. "His pursuit of 'new' additions to showcase and sell knew no geographic or moral boundaries, as reflected in the sprawling underworld of antiquities traffickers, crime bosses, money launderers, and tomb raiders he relied upon to expand his collection."

Steinhardt's lawyers depicted their client as a well-intentioned patsy.

"Mr. Steinhardt is pleased that the District Attorney's years-long investigation has concluded without any charges, and that items wrongfully taken by others will be returned to their native countries," Steinhardt's lawyers said. "Many of the dealers from whom Mr. Steinhardt bought these items made specific representations as to the dealers' lawful title to the items, and to their alleged provenance."

Vance's office conducted the investigation in cooperation with law enforcement from 11 countries, including Israel.

Some of the items were looted during strife in countries including Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey. Steinhardt loaned some of them to museums.

According to the CNBC report, the deal between Steinhardt and Vance reveals that at least one of the items that is being repatriated, a box for human remains from Crete, was revealed to have been looted when Steinhardt scoffed at investigators looking into another item. "You see this piece?" he reportedly said. "There's no provenance for it. If I see a piece and I like it, then I buy it."

Going forward, Steinhardt will be barred for life from acquiring any objects created before 1500 CE.

In 2019, Steinhardt, 80, who helped found Birthright Israel and supports a wide range of Jewish institutions, was accused of a pattern of propositioning and making sexually inappropriate remarks to women who have approached him as part of their work in Jewish philanthropy or the arts. Steinhardt denied the accusations and has not apologized, but acknowledged a pattern of comments "that were boorish, disrespectful, and just plain dumb." Hillel after an investigation confirmed some of the allegations, saying that complaints by its staff members "were justified."

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If I ever get called for Jury Duty ...

I will try to record my statement to the judge, describing all the facts related to the US not having equal treatment under the law.

The American "Justice" system only exists to persecute Gentiles, and to enforce the monopolies of the American "health care" system.

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Student government at NYU school named for Steinhardt calls for removal of philanthropist's name
https://www.jta.org/2021/12/09/ny/student-government-at-nyu-school-named-for-steinhardt-calls-for-removal-of-philanthropists-name

(JTA) — Student government leaders at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development are calling for the school to remove Michael Steinhardt's name after it was revealed that the philanthropist had acquired, owned and sold more than 1,000 looted items over the past 30 years.

The undergraduate and graduate students government released a joint statement Wednesday noting that the school's name had become "tainted by Michael Steinhardt's abhorrent actions."

"We, as leaders of our school's student government, unequivocally denounce the actions of Michael Steinhardt," they wrote in a statement shared to Instagram.

"Having someone be the namesake of our school that has committed actions polar opposite of what we teach on those very same topics to students, I think it would really be a disgrace," Anthony Cruz, president of the school's undergraduate student government told the Washington Square News, NYU's student newspaper.

Earlier this week, the philanthropist, who is a major donor to NYU as well as a number of Jewish organizations, forfeited 180 stolen antiquities worth $70 million in a deal with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance to avoid criminal charges.

On Thursday, NYU's board of trustees said it would conduct an investigation into Steinhardt's conduct, the Washington Square News reported.

This was not the first time students at NYU have called for Steinhardt's name to be removed from the school, which was named in honor of his $10 million gift to the school in 2001. In 2019, students at the school called for his name to be removed after Steinhardt was accused of propositioning and making sexually inappropriate remarks to several women with whom he interacted as part of their work in Jewish philanthropy or the arts.

At the time, Steinhardt denied the accusations and has not apologized, but acknowledged a pattern of comments "that were boorish, disrespectful, and just plain dumb."