Marion True (born November 5, 1948) was the former curator of antiquities for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. True was indicted on April 1, 2005, by an Italian court, on criminal charges accusing her of participating in a conspiracy that laundered stolen artifacts through private collections and creating a fake paper trail; the Greeks later followed suit.[1] Though the charges against True were eventually dropped,[2] the legal actions brought to light many questions about museum acquisitions, administration, repatriation, and ethics.
The trail ... ended abruptly on Wednesday, after a court in Rome ruled that the statute of limitations had run out