greg clarick told us the gallery had motivation to overlook the paintings' shortcomings. >> clarick:iod of this fraud, knoedler sold these paintings for about $67 million. knoedler made over $40 million in profit from selling these paintings. and at the same time, knoedler made essentially no money at all from selling other paintings. >> cooper: their business wasn't doing well? >> clarick: their business didn't exist as a profitable venture from 1994 until 2009 except for selling fake paintings from glafira rosales. >> cooper: we wanted to talk to knoedler gallery president ann freedman and though she initially agreed, just a few days before our scheduled interview, she backed out. luke nikas is her attorney. did ann freedman know she was selling forgeries? >> luke nikas: no, she didn't. >> cooper: not at all? >> nikas: not at all. >> cooper: never suspected over the course of 15 years? >> nikas: she didn't. she believed in the pictures and she believed in the pictures because that's what the experts were telling her. >> cooper: luke nikas says ann freedman showed the paintings to a