The Green family, the owners of the Hobby Lobby store chain, are under investigation for possibly importing looted antiquities for their Museum of the Bible Did Hobby Lobby Owners Smuggle Artifacts?—artnet News "Worst of all, ancient artifacts have proven a huge source of funds for ISIS, which, in addition to destroying ancient sites (occasionally killing people into the bargain), has reportedly made tremendous amounts of money by smuggling antiquities. Earlier this month, UNESCO chief Irina Bokova condemned ISIS’s “cultural cleansing” of Iraq. So it seems conceivable that some of the Green’s family money could have been channeled to support shadowy causes abroad."
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