Hobby Lobby has now agreed to shell out $3 million and fork over thousands of illicit Iraqi artifacts the arts-and-crafts superstore spent years fighting to keep.
On Wednesday, federal prosecutors announced the settlement of a civil forfeiture action between the company and the Department of Justice — a longstanding dispute stemming from Hobby Lobby’s entrée into collection in 2009, of “historically significant manuscripts, antiquities and other cultural materials.”
Hobby Lobby, however, possessed quite a bit more than ordinary artifacts — smuggled illegally from Iraq, the crafts corporation also obtained ancient clay cuneiform tablets, rare and nearly impossible to value.
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