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Unformatted text preview: Lab- Semester 2 Unit 3 Forensics . y g . , fi . . fi fi . . 1. The trails trials took place in Dutch. The defendant in this 1947
case was an art forger who had counterfeited millions of dollars worth of
paintings
2. What was strange about his defense was he wasn't arguing his
innocence, his life depended on provin
that he had committed the fraud
3. He learned all he could about the Old Masters of the paintings, their
biographies, their techniques
and their materials. Han Van Meegeren perfected copying numerous
works as practice, he mixed his own paints after researching the raw
materials and pigments available in Vermeer’s time. He bought 17th
century canvases, created his own brushes, and aged the works by
applying synthetic resin and baking them to dr
and crack the paint
4. A forensic test could have detected the synthetic resin. But at the time,
such tests were neither advanced nor widespread
5. He was arrested for delivering a priceless piece of Dutch heritage to the
Nazis—an act of treasonous collaboration punishable by
death. Bredius defended the painting’s authenticity, when he presented the
fake to the court, they nally believed him. He was acquitted for
collaborating with the Nazis and sentenced to a year imprisonment for
fraud
1. When of cials found out all the fancy things Schrenker owned was a
sam ? he faked his death on one Monday morning, when he boarded his
single-engine plane and took off from Anderson, Indiana run-on sentence.
A few hours later, the plane crashed into a Florida swamp, without any sign
of its pilot. Authorities say Schrenker tried to fake his own death by
parachuting out of his plane, jumping on a stashed motorcycle and hiding
out at a local campground.
2. Its harder to create a new state ID these days because of 9/11, most
states have added security features like holograms, data threads and
microprinting
3. It is so dif cult to fake a passport because of 9/11, nothing compares to
the security on the document you really need, a passport. And with a dozen fi . . fi fi pages and computer authentication. The easiest way is to obtain a valid
document fraudulently
4. Mr. Abagnale claims it is easy to get a fraudulent passport all you need is
the death record of a child from a courthouse to get a birth certi cate. A
birth certi cate and some white-out on an apartment lease gets you a
driver's license. A driver's license gets you a passport. He also adds on You
would be really not very smart to stay anywhere in the states and hide. I
mean you might get out to some farm in the middle of nowhere, but sooner
or later, people around there are going to start to question who you are and
where you came from
5. The FBI nally arrested Abagnale in 1969 when he was 21. Now he
works for them. In his years on the run, he stole $2.5 million with counterfeit
checks. He lived the life most fugitives would dream of: world travel, luxury
accommodations, in his case, older women. ...
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