The Former director of Long Island University's Hillwood museum has been sentenced to a year and a day and $5000 fine for stealing Egyptian antiquities from the institution's collection. Barry Stern admitted he had stolen nine objects, including a statuette of the Apis bull, and sold eight of them as coming from his personal collection at Christie's auction, netting him over $50 000.
Mr. Stern said his motivation was revenge as he felt the institution had treated him unfairly.
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