Art Theft And Organized Crime (ISN)

Morgan Russell, a graduate student here at Mercyhurst, just had a short article published by ISN concerning the connection between art theft and organized crime. The article was a bit of an eye-opener for me as I was not aware of just how much money (upwards of $6 billion) organized crime is making off of art theft.

Mercyhurst Intel Students On EU Organized Crime And Bio-Preparedness (Blatant Self-Promotion)

Two groups of Mercyhurst College Intel Studies students briefed the results of their projects concerning organized crime in the EU and the preparedness of the EU and EU member nations to weather either a pandemic or a bio-terrorist attack yesterday to William Newton-Dunn, a Member of the European Parliament out of the UK. They all did a great job and got a nice write-up in the Erie Times News as a result.