Heritage Watch - Preserving the Past, Enriching the Future.

Southern California Public Radio (2 February  
2009): The case involving smuggled Thai antiquities that were  
funneled through the Silk Roads Gallery in Los Angeles on their way  
to being donated to various area museums seems to have stalled  
somewhat after the death of the only person thus far charged in the  
case, the Thai antiquities expert Roxanna Brown. Although no one  
employed directly by the museums involved (the Mingei Museum, the  
Bowers Museum, the Pacific Asia Museum, and the L.A. County Museum of  
Art) has been charged, the raids have led to some changes in museum  
policies, including a wariness of “shady middlemen.” http:// 
www.scpr.org/news/stories/2009/02/02/08_museum_raids_020209.html