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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

How are our most prestigious museums still displaying artifacts of dubious provenance? @arielsabar.bsky.social digs into charges of decades of glittering, globe-spanning fraud. @jacobfeldman.bsky.social's top pick www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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The Mystery of the Golden Coffin

How did $65 million of allegedly stolen antiquities wind up in two of the world’s greatest museums?

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Ariel Sabar @arielsabar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

While reporting my @theatlantic.com story on the $1 billion DC Solar ponzi, Steve Beal was wonderfully generous with film he shot as the company's videographer. Last night Steve posted episode 1 of his documentary—"Fireball"— on his time there. Well worth the watch. youtu.be/_vln8usLKBQ

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I Filmed a $1 Billion Ponzi Scheme From the Inside | Ep. 1

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/10/2025

A group of childhood friends pulled off the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in history, Ariel Sabar wrote in January. Then they did something really crazy:

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They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rings. Then They Did Something Really Crazy.

The childhood friends behind the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in American history

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Ariel Sabar @arielsabar.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

After 3 days of deliberation in the sports-memorabilia heist case, a jury tonight found 3 of the defendants who went to trial guilty: Joseph Atsus, Damien Boland & Nicholas Dombek. The fourth, Al Atsus, was acquitted. Background in my Feb. story @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rings. Then They Did Something Really Crazy.

The childhood friends behind the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in American history

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Michael Scherer @michaelscherer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The best story you will ever read about the world's greatest sports memorabilia thief and the 10 Yogi Berra World Series rings he melted down for gold. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rings. Then They Did Something Really Crazy.

The childhood friends behind the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in American history

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Longreads @longreads.com · 14/01/2025

"Berra’s 16 rings and two MVP plaques—valued at $1.5 million intact—had grossed Trotta’s crew just $10,300 after melting." @arielsabar.bsky.social @theatlantic.com longreads.com/2025/01/14/the-childh…

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The masterful @arielsabar.bsky.social has done it again, finding incredibly rich and fascinating details about a string of incredibly stupid and unprofitable thefts of sports memorabilia for the sake of their precious metal content: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rings. Then They Did Something Really Crazy.

The childhood friends behind the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in American history

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