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The AZ Polygamy Town Airport Built With Fed $$$Mns
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 8:18 pm | Suzan Mazur
The first shock is the realization that an airport costing Americans $3 million exists in the polygamist-owned Arizona wastelands of Colorado City. It sits "Spielberg-like" north of the Grand Canyon, east of the Colorado River and serves a handful of planes. ... More >>
Senator John McCain Passes The Buck On Polygamy
Friday, 26 May 2006, 3:22 pm | Suzan Mazur
In the interests of balancing Senatorial responsibility for the absence of law enforcement action against polygamy, while the FLDS, America's largest polygamy cult, is incorporated in Utah -- members live and vote on either side of the Utah-Arizona border. That ... More >>
Reports Reconfirm Hatch Said He Condones Polygamy
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 1:38 pm | Suzan Mazur
Last week on these pages I cited a polygamy political coverup, which includes US Senator Orrin Hatch (Rep-UT), who is on record as condoning polygamy. With US Senator Patrick Leahy (Dem-VT) several days after the Scoop story appeared taking on Hatch ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Most Wanted In Polygamy Coverup
Monday, 15 May 2006, 4:50 pm | Suzan Mazur
A voice Message from FBI in Idaho to me several weeks after contacting them regarding my front page piece just published in the Weekend Financial Times (10/28/2000), "Seven brides for one brother: Plural marriage is rife in the western United States" , an ... More >>
Merrin Gallery In Italy's Antiquities Dragnet?
Monday, 8 May 2006, 1:33 pm | Suzan Mazur
It is not totally surprising that New York antiquities dealer Ed Merrin appears to be caught in the dragnet of Italian prosecutors who are conducting a criminal trial in Rome, having already charged dealer Bob Hecht and former Getty Museum curator ... More >>
Madeleine Albright & Maurice Tempelsman Q&A
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 11:44 am | Suzan Mazur
Secretary Albright's discussion of her morality & foreign policy book was immediately followed by two questions about her widely-rumored romantic relationship with diamond broker Maurice Tempelsman during the Clinton years, some say resulting in Tempelsman ... More >>
Mazur: Deeper Into The Dillon-Euphronios Nexus
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:52 am | Suzan Mazur
I first met University of Arizona political science professor David N. Gibbs about a year ago while researching a story about the Patrice Lumumba matrix. Dr. Gibbs spent a couple of years in Africa in the Peace Corps(Niger, 1979-1980) where his ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Big Love, Romney, Bush & Mormons
Monday, 10 April 2006, 2:16 pm | Suzan Mazur
Aside from HBO's Big Love series generating big laughs at the expense of tens of thousand of women and children who languish in polygamy cults up and down the Rocky Mountains as American Justice looks the other way[ Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/02/2006 ... More >>
NYT, Met Sing to Collectors: Elizabeth Stone I/V
Friday, 17 March 2006, 3:08 pm | Suzan Mazur
Hungry for love after a trouncing on these pages by antiquities whistleblower Oscar Muscarella, New York Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman and Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello took their "Who Owns Art" show last week to ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: The Euphronios C Douglas Dillon Nexus
Monday, 6 March 2006, 2:55 pm | Suzan Mazur
Metropolitan Museum director Philippe de Montebello now refers to it as an "impropriety". He seems to believe that the "grand acquisitors" are off the hook following the Met signing an agreement with Italy regarding title transfer back to Italy of the Euphronios ... More >>
Was NY Met-Italy Deal A Bloomberg-Berlusconi Pact?
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 11:43 am | Suzan Mazur
It's privately gated - Tucker's Town, Bermuda. Who comes and goes is not public information. But that they've talked antiquities, maybe even had a serious dinner conversation over she-crab soup and mako shark while sketching out possible title transfer of ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: The Italy-Met Euphronios Accord?
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 5:06 pm | Suzan Mazur
The battle for ownership of the Euphronios vase illustrates perfectly how the New York Times publishing family fools only itself. Sales of the newspaper deservedly continue to decline as the people responsible for putting the Times out think they ... More >>
Maurizio Fiorilli - Italy's Antiquities Prosecutor
Friday, 17 February 2006, 1:20 pm | Suzan Mazur
Maurizio Fiorilli , a federal prosecutor in the ongoing Italian antiquities trafficking trial, does not think an army the size of the Roman Empire's is the best approach to getting Italy's Euphronios bowl and other looted ancient art back from American ... More >>
Suzan Mazur "No Ransom" - Part II (With Audio)
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 4:36 pm | Suzan Mazur
Unlike many in the museum world, Metropolitan Museum Ancient Near East expert Oscar White Muscarella was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His childhood was spent in foster homes. And at age ten or eleven he was adopted by his mother's second ... More >>
Mazur: Sotheby's Pre-Auction Euphronios Transcript
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 4:51 pm | Suzan Mazur
In the 1970s oil boom years, before Mu-ammar al-Gaddafi nationalized Bunker Hunt's oilfield and the silver market collapsed, he and brother Herbert amassed a quarter-ton of ancient coins and some astonishing pieces of ancient art. These were put up for ... More >>
Antiquities Whistleblower Oscar White Muscarella
Sunday, 25 December 2005, 9:05 am | Suzan Mazur
I first met Metropolitan Museum ancient Near East expert Oscar Muscarella in the late 1980s. I went to see him at his office to discuss some safety pins or "fibulas" which had turned up in a couple of tumuli in southwest Turkey along with other artifacts ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: A Preview Of Bob Hecht's Memoirs
Monday, 19 December 2005, 11:09 pm | Suzan Mazur
On August 27, 1991, Bob "the biggest dealer" Hecht, now on trial in Rome for antiquities trafficking, sent the following handwritten letter to Turkish journalist Ozgen Acar about their shared enthusiasm for ancient coins, among other subjects. I was mentioned, ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Bob Hecht, The Younger
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 4:58 pm | Suzan Mazur
Bob Hecht, the dean of antiquities dealers now on trial for trafficking stolen art, has apparently since his youth at Haverford College been single-minded in his passion for recapturing the glories of the ancient world. Much like late paleoanthropologist ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Sotheby's & The Signed Euphronios
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 2:12 pm | Suzan Mazur
Proceedings resume December 5 in the trial of the dean of ancient art dealers -- Bob Hecht -- and former Getty museum antiquities curator Marion True. Will Sotheby's be called to answer questions about some of the items listed by Italian prosecutors ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: The Provenance Of Bob Hecht
Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 4:03 pm | Suzan Mazur
We've seen little in the popular press about the secretive 86-year old Robert "Bob" Emmanuel Hecht, Jr., shaman of the antiquities trade, in between news of his trial this week in Rome for trafficking in stolen art and his sale of the Euphronios vase ... More >>
