"People didn't expect the restitution to be so high," said Jennifer Jordan, an analyst with Wells Fargo Van Kasper.
Although testimony showed that Mr. al-'Owhali came from a wealthy and prominent Saudi family, Mr. Cohn said he expected that a restitution order would not extend to them.
But the county attorney cautioned that the move was unlikely to bring in significant revenue, because many inmates were destitute and because convicts would be expected to pay restitution and other fines first.
From the Louvre I expect more," said Christopher Marinello, a restitution lawyer in London who has overseen some of the highest-profile recoveries of Nazi-looted art, including the 2014 transfer of Henri Matisse's 1937 "Profil bleu devant la cheminée" from the Henie Onstad Museum in Oslo back to the heirs of its rightful owner, the Parisian art dealer Paul Rosenberg.
"Wind farms are supposed to have a lifetime of 25 years, we would therefore expect developers to include proposals for site restitution in their plans as evidence of good stewardship of the environment.
The descendants are expected to file a restitution suit to secure the vehicle, which was sold for nearly $3.8 million last summer at RM Auctions' event during the Pebble Beach collector car festivities in California.
Since then, Jorgensen says, he has passed the case to the state attorney general's office, which is expected to negotiate a restitution price with Montesoro.
"Once an individual has served his or her time and paid all restitution, society expects them to reintegrate into their communities and become law-abiding and productive citizens," Beshear said at a news conference.
What kind of restitution does someone who has had their hands chopped off hope for and expect?
While the "restitution fund" will come at the insistence of members of Congress, its amount will be laughably small and no single investor should expect more than a pittance, if that.
