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Article: UCLA ART THEFT CHARGES FILED; EX-UCLA OFFICIAL NAMED IN ART THEFT.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- May 27, 1999
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Byline: Troy Anderson Daily News Staff Writer
A former director of counseling at UCLA was indicted on charges of stealing an original 19th century painting and selling it for $200,000 through a middleman to a New York art gallery, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
But the Beverly Hills attorney for Van Nuys resident Jane Crawford, 50, said the oil painting by American impressionist Arthur Wesley Dow was given to his client by a fellow UCLA counselor and that she's now being used as a scapegoat to cover up for the university's carelessness in protecting donated art.
``She's being held out as a scapegoat for their slipshod manner in which they ...