BAIL SET FOR FORMER GETTY CURATOR MARION TRUE

Appearing before an investigating magistrate and prosecutors, Marion True, the former antiquities curator of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, was ordered on Wednesday to post $19,500 in bail pending trial on charges that she conspired to buy an ancient funerary wreath that prosecutors say was illegally removed from Greek soil, the New York Times‘ Anthee Carassava reports. The bail amount was set after a closed hourlong meeting at the magistrate’s office in which True submitted a sixteen-page defense and responded to prosecutors’ questions with the aid of her Greek lawyer. She has denied any wrongdoing. True faces up to ten years in prison if found guilty. The investigating magistrate, Apostolos Zavitsanos, said after the meeting that he did not consider her the greatest offender in the case.