Live from the Library of Ashurbanipal: : Billionaire Hobby Lobby Owners Probed in Looting: "The billionaire owners of craft giant Hobby Lobby are under federal investigation...
...for allegedly looting hundreds of ancient artifacts from the Middle East for use in their nonprofit Museum of the Bible, according to a report. The Green family has been under investigation since 2011... when US Customs agents in Memphis seized nearly 300 clay tablets the family was attempting to send to the store’s headquarters.... ‘Is it possible we have some [illicit] artifacts? That’s possible,’ CEO Steven Green told reporters. The Greens... tried to sneak the artifacts into the country by misstating the contents of FedEx packages as ‘hand-crafted tiles’ worth $300...
