Now art crime is a $6 billion dollar industry, and Robert Wittman knows all about it. The retired FBI undercover agent founded the agency’s art crime team, the ACT (his original idea for a name ...

US-based nonprofit Art Legacy Institute (ALI) has partnered with anti-counterfeiting technology firm Alitheon to help protect art against theft, fraud, and misattribution. ALI was founded by ex ...

who had been an FBI agent since 1996, expressed willingness to investigate the thefts. Despite studying business administration and accounting at college, he gravitated toward art history courses ...

“As an investigator, an art crime investigator, I’m 96-98% sure they were involved,” said Bob Wittman, a retired FBI agent in Philadelphia who launched and led the FBI’s national art ...