You Could Not Make This Up

[David Lockmiller]

New York Times -- January 5, 2024

Fraud in the art world: In 2013, the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev spent $2 billion buying artwork, including Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” and “Tête,” a sculpture by Modigliani. In the years that followed, he began to suspect that a man who had advised him on the sales had been boosting their prices, inventing rejected bids or secretly buying the works himself before reselling them. Now, Rybolovlev has sued the famed auction house Sotheby’s, accusing it of helping the adviser inflate the prices. The trial begins next week in New York.

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Senator Bernie Sanders issued this tweet today:

When half of older Americans have NO retirement savings, we don't need to cut Social Security. Legislation I introduced last year would make Social Security solvent for 75 years, expand benefits by $2,400 a year, and NOT raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.