Judge Dismisses Writer’s Claim For Multi-Million-Dollar “Finder’s Fee”

A New York judge has dismissed a claim by writer Hector Feliciano, who claimed he should get a “finder’s fee” for helping to locate artwork looted by the Nazis in World War II. Feliciano “created an international sensation with his 1994 book, ‘The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World’s Greatest Works of Art,’ which focused attention on the missing artworks. He maintained that he was entitled to 17.5 percent of the estimated $39 million value of the paintings, an amount he said was ‘consistent with the standard art recovery fee of the industry’.”