“Tax lawyer Edgar Paltzer used French master Charles-Francois Daubigny’s 1862 work ‘La gardeuse de chevres’ (The goat herder) to pay part of his $2-million bail in New York, where he has been detained since April on tax fraud charges. ‘To escape from the claws of American justice and see their families, some Swiss bankers remortgage their homes or seek help from relatives,’ Swiss newspaper Le Matin reported. ‘Zurich lawyer Edgar Paltzer provided a 19th century canvas.’ The bail conditions allow the lawyer to leave the United States and return to Switzerland as long as he agrees not to fight any future extradition order.”
http://www.thelocal.ch/20130825/swiss-lawyer-uses-art-for-bail-in-fraud-case
Related posts:
3 Chicago-suburb cops accused of robbing drug dealers, selling cocaine
Indiscriminate surveillance fosters distrust, conformity and mediocrity: research
Federal agents surround Nevada ranch in desert tortoise standoff
Texas Women Subjected to Roadside Cavity Search Speak Out After Troopers Indicted
Europe's 'new deal' for jobless dismissed as rhetoric
UK survey finds one new ‘legal high’ goes on sale every week in Britain
Genetic modification blamed for rejected Washington alfalfa crop
Guitarist completes first-ever paddleboard journey from Cuba to U.S.
Ecuador breaks US trade pact to thwart 'blackmail' over Snowden asylum
Obama's drone war a 'recruitment tool' for Isis: US air force whistleblowers
'Japan's Authorities Decline to Step In on Bitcoin' (Tuesday)
China, India and Pakistan beefing up nuclear arsenals
That 3-D Printed Gun? It’s Just the Start
It’s Adapt or Die in the New Saudi Economy
Arab League wants action on Syria