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Mehrdad Sadigh, who has operated Sadigh Gallery in Midtown Manhattan since 1982, admitted to selling thousands of fake artifacts for three decades. I was drive by financial greed, he said.
The owner of a longtime Manhattan gallery said in court that while some customers thought they were buying ancient items, they were actually modern knockoffs, just made to look old.