FBI Busts Forgery Ring
A concerned art buyer and a type of paint that did not exist almost 100 years ago led FBI agents to recently raid a northern Michigan home believed to be the center of a national art-forgery ring.
The suspected forgeries of paintings formerly attributed to noted surrealist artist Gertrude Abercrombie and Precisionism artists George Ault and Ralston Crawford fooled art experts into shelling more than $700,000 for them.
According to , which broke the story, the raid by 30 agents targeted Traverse City, Michigan, resident Donald “D.B” Henkel, 60, a self-described artist who is accused in a sealed
