Fla. 牧師 罪人／有罪を宣告するd in NYC 偽の Hirst art 事例／患者
NEW YORK (AP) ― A Miami 牧師 was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd Tuesday of trying to cash in on 偽造の artworks that mimicked 価値のある pieces by British art luminary Damien Hirst.
A Manhattan 陪審／陪審員団 設立する Kevin Sutherland 有罪の of 試みる／企てるd grand 窃盗罪. He could 直面する up to seven years in 刑務所，拘置所 at his 宣告，判決ing, 始める，決める for May 19. 弁護 lawyer Sanford "Sam" Talkin said Sutherland was disappointed in the 判決 and would 調査する 選択s for 控訴，上告ing.
検察官，検事s said Sutherland, who leads the nondenominational, 200-member Mosaic Miami Church, tried to sell several 偽の Hirsts for $185,000 to an undercover police officer 提起する／ポーズをとるing as an art aficionado.
This undated photo 供給するd by the Manhattan 地区 弁護士／代理人／検事's Office shows the 前線 and 支援する of a 偽造の Damien Hirst spin 絵. Kevin Sutherland, a Miami 牧師, knowingly peddled phony examples of some of British art 星／主役にする Damien Hirst's 署名 主題s, 検察官，検事s said in summing up Sutherland's 試みる／企てるd grand 窃盗罪 裁判，公判 Monday, April 7, 2014, but the 弁護 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs he was just an art-market novice who couldn't read red 旗s about the pieces' authenticity. 陪審／陪審員団 審議s are scheduled to 再開する Tuesday. (AP Photo/Manhattan 地区 弁護士／代理人／検事's Office)
"Because the art 産業 is 大部分は unregulated, it is 特に important to 持つ／拘留する accountable those who fraudulently 取引，協定 artwork," 地区 弁護士／代理人／検事 Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said in a 声明. His office has brought several 事例／患者s surrounding phony Hirst 作品 alone.
Sutherland began 取引，協定ing in cowboy-関係のある art in 2010 and soon began buying Hirsts, or what appeared to be Hirsts, his lawyer said.
Part of a group dubbed the Young British Artists in the 1990s, Hirst received 広大な／多数の／重要な Britain's best-known art award, the Turner Prize, in 1995. He's known partly for 製薬の-主題d "位置／汚点／見つけ出す" 絵s and 一連の会議、交渉／完成する spin" 絵s.
Sutherland agreed last year to sell two 偽造の spin 絵s and three 偽の 位置／汚点／見つけ出す prints to the undercover 探偵，刑事, although Sotheby's auction house had told Sutherland there were questions about the authenticity of one of the 絵s, the DA's office said. When the undercover officer asked whether there were any 疑問s the artworks were 本物の, Sutherland said he didn't know of any 問題／発行するs, 当局 said.
But Sutherland said that Sotheby's never 明確に told him the artworks were 偽の and that he believed they were real.
He said he didn't ask Hirst's studio for 解明, as Sotheby's 示唆するd, because the authentication 過程 was pricey. He said he also believed their authenticity was 保証（人）d when he bought them from Vincent Lopreto, an 認める art scammer who 証言するd against him.
Lopreto ― a Laguna Beach, Calif., gallery owner who had already served California 刑務所，拘置所 time in another phony-Hirst 事例／患者― and 商売／仕事 partner Ronald Bell pleaded 有罪の in Manhattan this year to 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s 含むing 身元 窃盗. They're を待つing 宣告，判決ing.
Richard Silver, a part-time art 売買業者 who said he unknowingly bought 偽造の Hirst prints from Lopreto but then 偽のd 評価s to 転売する them, pleaded 有罪の in 2012 to 軽罪 偽造 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s, in 交流 for a 60-day 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決.
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