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Gardner suspects can't lead us to the stolen art because they're dead, FBI says
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Storage Wars
That's going to be best episode of Storage Wars ever when they sell the unit the paintings are in.
Love that the FBI declines to
Love that the FBI declines to identify the "suspects" who they are certain are dead.
So, this
robbery happened 25 years ago, the suspects are now dead, and the latest lead is actually a fuzzy video that was taken the day before the heist.
Explain again to us why the FBI is still pursuing this case.
from what I gather
from reading the linked article is that they want to find the paintings.
Twenty-five years later?
In a word, this is NONSENSE.
When do you stop looking for
When do you stop looking for $500MM?
Hey, if the Gardner wants to continue
to pursue this, I'm all for that. But to keep expending Federal resources (at the taxpayer's expense) in the pursuit of a theft that occurred 25 years ago is nonsense. No matter how "important" or "valuable" somebody thinks this artwork is.
The Gardner, its owners, and
The Gardner, its owners, and employees all pay taxes too, and are thus entitled to the same police investigation/enforcement services everyone else is.
Would you propose the police stop investigating 25-year-old murder cases, too?
So, Roadman
Do you think that all those Nazis and their heirs should just be allowed to keep priceless art plundered from murdered people, too?
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/degenerate-art-cornelius-gurlitt-...
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Worst Benny Hill Chase Ever
The massive amount of incompetence of behalf of the Gardner, its staff, the BPD (At The Time), and the FBI on this case makes me want to be an art thief. I've always wanted a Klee or a Jasper Johns. If I boosted one or two I don't think I would get caught based on the track record here.
Some low level Legitimate Businessmen stole the payroll of the Sox for the next three years and the FBI won't name the suspects because they are dead. What are you scared of, their ghosts?
Does anyone in the Boston's FBI Office know that they don't exactly have the faith a lot of the Boston area when they sat on Bulger for years? They come out and hold big press conferences that they have indicted people for crimes but then typically let it slip that these people were already in jail that it stretches their credibility with nearly everything else.
Turn the screws future Chelsea office denizens. I want these paintings back. It would make us all feel better. Thanks,
Maybe they don't want to spook associates.
Others in the chain of theft might destroy the things.
It's looking more interesting now that there is evidence that Abath the guard is more culpable than previously thought.
Let's imagine Abath ran up a huge cocaine debt and his dealer was getting ready to do some kneecapping. So Abath mentions his job as a bargaining chip, word goes up the mobster chain of command and a deal is made. "We'll write off your toot debt if you set us up and if you can't keep quiet about it, you're done."
The Fed still has a living suspect although he's barely living. Robert Gentile.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/arts/design/reputed-mobster-may-be-las...
Gentile supposedly met a regional mobster named Robert Guarente in 2003 at a seafood place in Portland.
http://www.pressherald.com/2015/08/06/portland-may-play-role-in-solving-...
Stephen Kurkjian describes the mob situation at the time in a recent interview.
http://wshu.org/post/isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-art-heist-and-conne...
I got it figured out now
The heist was pulled by the FBI.
They had proof that the guard's footsteps were heard in one of the galleries where a painting was taken - and no recording of any other steps. This alone should have been enough to indict him on conspiracy charges to see if he would roll over on the imitation cops. Why didn't they?
How did the fake cops know how to get all the security footage?
The FBI are like gangsters:
The FBI are like gangsters: They lie. A lot.
Globe reporters repeat the lies as truth. The Globe is in bed with the FBI and DOJ. Like you wouldn't believe.
Paranoid? Too pessimistic? Go to www.thetrialofwhiteybulger.com, where Matt Connolly writes about way more than just Whitey.