There is a famous scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 epic The Godfather where patriarch Vito Corleone (played by Marlon Brando) calls a meeting with the major crime families of New York City.

The Godfather was, for a time ... so it was put up for auction. The painting sold for just $1,000 to an anonymous buyer. Here, the legacy of a once-valuable enterprise: a financial catastrophe ...