An Irvine man was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for stealing and selling high-end violins and robbing a bank, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, March 26.

Prosecutors said that the man persuaded music stores to lend him violins worth tens of thousands of dollars on a trial basis, which he did not return. By Matt Stevens Reporting from Los Angeles ...

But his accolades are listed below an entry about "Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust ‒ Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour," the book he wrote. Published in ...