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Nob draws crowd at Copley Square bank, but who was it?

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Celebrity sighting
Dartmouth St. and Boylston St.
Boston
United States
42° 21' 0.2772" N, 71° 4' 38.5788" W

A curious onlooker e-mailed around 4:45 p.m.:

Some VIP was just visiting the Citizen's Bank on Boylston Street at Dartmouth. With a police escort of several cars and motorcycles, and wired Secret Service guys in a couple of Chevy Tahoes. A big crowd was watching for at least 20 minutes, and no one had any idea who it was, although rumors of everyone from Ben Affleck to General Petraeus were flying. Customers were going in and out of the bank and even they couldn't tell what was going on.

Heard on the radio that

By anon (not verified) | Fri, 06/05/2009 - 7:27pm

Heard on the radio that Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, was in Boston today.

Hmmm

By JohnAKeith | Fri, 06/05/2009 - 10:00pm

Was she using the ATM?

The police (some from Cambridge, some State) were letting people in and out of the bank with no delays. The crowd formed as much because everyone else started gathering as anything else.

I overheard one person say it was "the Prime Minister of ..." and then was out of earshot.

My money's on Borat.

any notable offspring

By pierce | Fri, 06/05/2009 - 10:15pm

any notable offspring graduating from MIT today? could be some foreign royalty stopping to stuff a graduation card.

Sec. is right

By anon (not verified) | Fri, 06/05/2009 - 10:43pm

heard on the old motorola that a dignitary flew in to hanscom yesterday

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