Former Salander-O'Reilly Gallery Director Found Guilty on Fraud Charges, Not Guilty on De Niro Larceny

Another chapter ends in the case of the money-swindling Salander-O’Reilly Gallery. The gallery’s former director, Leigh Morse, who worked for Lawrence Salander, sometimes referred to as “the art world’s Bernie Madoff,” received a guilty verdict this week in the trial against her. She had been accused of defrauding the estates of artists, selling “more than 80 artworks, valued at $5 million, from four estates without notifying them” and now faces four years in prison (Salander will wind up serving somewhere between 6 and 18 years).