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Monet thief receives 62-month jail sentence

A French art thief who admitted stealing and trying to sell paintings by Claude Monet and other famous artists will serve more than five years in U.S. prison.A federal judge in Miami imposed a 62-month sentence Wednesday on 56-year-old Bernard Jean Ternus.He pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to steal paintings by Monet, fellow Impressionist George Sisley and 17th-century master Jan Brueghel the
/ Source: The Associated Press

A French art thief who admitted stealing and trying to sell paintings by Claude Monet and other famous artists will serve more than five years in U.S. prison.

A federal judge in Miami imposed a 62-month sentence Wednesday on 56-year-old Bernard Jean Ternus.

He pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to steal paintings by Monet, fellow Impressionist George Sisley and 17th-century master Jan Brueghel the Elder.

The paintings were taken by masked, armed robbers in August 2007 from a museum in Nice, France, and have since been returned.

The FBI cracked the case by having undercover agents pose as potential buyers when Ternus tried to sell the paintings.