How a Notorious Alleged Smuggler Is Trying to Pry Back the Mafia’s Multimillion-Dollar Caravaggio

How a Notorious Alleged Smuggler Is Trying to Pry Back the Mafia’s Multimillion-Dollar Caravaggio

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In the fall of 1969, after a night of heavy storms and thunder, a caretaker came rushing out of a baroque church in the old city of Palermo, on the Italian island of Sicily. In tears, the woman had just discovered that a priceless Caravaggio painting that hung over the altar had been cut from its…

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