When Nate Murphy found Leonardo, he unearthed the find of his lifetime. Unfortunately, the dinosaur no longer belongs to him, but is the joint property of the Judith River Dinosaur Institute, which he founded in 1993 but is no longer associated with, and the Hammond family, whose land the fossil was found on.rnThis past May, Murphy was sentenced to 60 days in jail and was issued a monetary fine for stealing a raptor fossil from private land in the Malta area. This month, he is expected to be sentenced on a federal charge also involving the theft of fossils from federal land. He pled guilty to both charges, and signed over his portion of Leonardo to the Institute.
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