This latest push to regulate the art market comes after testimony three weeks ago at a
closed - door session of the House Financial Services Committee in which prosecutors from the Department of Justice and NY District Attorney's Office gave testimony about recent cases, such as the recent indictment in the Eastern District of New York of six individuals and four corporations in a $ 50 million money laundering scheme in which an
undercover agent purchase a Pablo Picasso painting to launder fraudulent profits from a stock manipulation scheme.