I see that Dirk Obbink has been arrested.
Despite his name, he comes from Nebraska. He is also the world's leading expert on Greek Papyri.
In the late 1890s an organization called The Egypt Exploration Society excavated the garbage dump in a town called Oxyrhhynchus in the Fayum in Egypt. Among other things, it contained all the book and papers that had been tossed there between about 300 BC and 300 AD. The lot was trundled off to Oxford, several 55 gallon drums full. It's been worked on by a staff of about 6 scholars continuously since then. Their publications amount to at least 150 volumes now, which is only a small fraction of what is there. Among other things found there were 4 poems of Sappho (Obbink edited one of them), a half dozen plays by Menander, Aristotle's The Constitution of Athens (his only real dialogue we have; what we call the text of Aristotle is really the classroom notes taken by his chief students), among other trifles. Obbink eventually became the director of all that, after a career that included publishing the Epicurean papyri salvaged from the Villa of the Pisones in Herculaneum buried by Vesuvius in 79 (the exact books Lucretius and Virgil read when they were studying there).
What Obbink did was sell a few old stolen fragments of the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) to one of the most obnoxious American crackpot Bible-thumping millionaires (he's the one who who sued and got the right to exclude birth control pills from his worker's health insurance), who also bought a huge haul of stolen antiquities from Iraq. Somehow when the FBI comes to get this stuff from him, he just claims he didn't know it was stolen and, since he is a millionaire, they never arrest him.
Here is what Obbink bought with the money:
The Cottonland castle in Texas. He since had to sell it to pay his lawyers and it was bought by the producer of a home remodeling show.
I've read many of Obbink's articles, and once many years ago, when I was attending the Summer Seminar of the American Numismatic Society I went to a party at his aprtment. All he did was complain. He had to a take a year off to go back to Nebraska to have some kind of surgery. He was stuck teaching at Barnard College where he would never have any graduate students. I suppose he complained about how little he was paid at Oxford too--which would be true. There is no position in Classics that could pay him what his skill and epxpertise is wroth. But now he'll never be able to touch another piece of papyrus.