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Hobb ylo bb yw ill pay a$ 3 million fine and forfeit thousand so f ancient Iraqi religious artifacts that were smuggled out of the Middle East. T heg overnment says the artifact sw ere intentionally mislabel edf or import and that the company’s purchase of the tablet sw a s“fraught with r edf lags.” Hobb ylo bby’s owners are devout Christians, and company president Steve Green own so ne of the larges tc ollections of religious artifacts in the worl d.heis building a Museum of the Bibl ein Washington, D.C., that i ss chedul edt oo pen this fall. Green said the company cooperated with the government, and that it shoul dha ve been more careful in buying the artifacts.