US Returning Smuggled Dinosaur to Mongolia: "U.S. authorities accused Eric Prokopi of lying on customs forms by declaring the fossilized bones to be worth $19,000. Prokopi pled guilty to fraud in December.
This week, a judge ordered the skeleton and other fossils turned over to the government. Prokopi faces at least 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in April.
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