Man who oversaw massive Norval Morrisseau art forgeries sentenced to 5 years in prison

The man who oversaw the creation of thousands of forged artworks in Thunder Bay, Ont., that were falsely attributed to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison, in a case investigators have called Canada's largest art fraud investigation.

Man who oversaw massive Norval Morrisseau art forgeries sentenced to 5 years in prison
A piece of Indigenous artwork on a table.

The man who oversaw the creation of thousands of forged artworks in Thunder Bay, Ont., that were falsely attributed to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison, in a case investigators have called Canada's largest art fraud investigation.