FEDERAL PROSECUTORS will be able to pursue a forfeiture action against a painting stolen from an Austrian art dealer during the widespread seizing of Jewish property by the Nazis before World War II, a Southern District judge has ruled.
Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey rejected a motion to dismiss the forfeiture action, brought by the Museum of Modern Art and an Austrian museum, for the Egon Schiele painting “Portrait of Wally.”
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