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Question
The Italian government tried Marian True, the former Curator of Antiquities of the J.P. Getty Museum in Los Angeles, on charges ofa) theft from a museum in Rome
b) falsely impersonating a trained archaeologist
c) knowingly purchasing antiquities that were illegally excavated in Italian territory
d) displaying fake antiquities as real
e) all of the above
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