Legal Opinion
Helena De Saro v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 22, 2006No. 04-14308; D.C. Docket 02-23102-CV-JLKUnpublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant Helena de Saro appeals from the district court’s judgment that she had failed to establish her ownership of two valuable paintings that the United States seized. The paintings at issue are a 1793 Francisco Goya painting entitled El Atraco a la Diligencia and a 1924 painting entitled Buste de Juene Femme by Foujita that de Saro, a famous Spanish art dealer, claims to own. De Saro estimates that the Goya is valued at $8 million and the Foujita at $2 million. The paintings were suspected to have been involved in the drug trafficking activities of Jose Maria Clemente, who is not a party…
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