Dad and daughter admit to forgery in $2M counterfeit art scam

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1syefdg/dad_and_daughter_admit_to_forgery_in_2m/"> <img src="https://external-preview.redd.it/624Zrtsb8f_FY07s5nKz80dAlNyoOpmx-9LG4fzJXuY.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=9963a1179aeddf6b99f7f29b6e490f2fac4018a3" alt="Dad and daughter admit to forgery in $2M counterfeit art scam" title="Dad and daughter admit to forgery in $2M counterfeit art scam" /> </a> </td><td> <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><blockquote> <p>A father-daughter counterfeiting team admitted in Brooklyn court Tuesday they forged documents to help sell fake art by Banksy, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and others to unsuspecting buyers.</p> <p>Erwin Bankowski, 50, and his daughter, Karolina Bankowska, 26, teamed up with an art forger in Poland to sell more than 200 fake pieces between 2020 and 2025, netting at least $2 million in the process.</p> <p>For their part of the scheme, the duo, both Polish citizens living in Lawrence, N.J., came up with elaborate fake ownership histories, or provenances, for each of the forged pieces.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/28/dad-daughter-counterfeit-art-forgery/">READ MORE</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nydailynews"> /u/nydailynews </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/28/dad-daughter-counterfeit-art-forgery/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1syefdg/dad_and_daughter_admit_to_forgery_in_2m/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>