Reputed Mobster In Hospital After Prison Fall, Trial Delayed
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A reputed Connecticut mobster who authorities
believe has information about the largest art heist in U.S. history
remains hospitalized after being injured in jail, and his trial on
weapons charges has been postponed.
A lawyer for
Robert Gentile
of Manchester said Friday that Gentile remains hospitalized “in bad
shape” after he fell last month at the Wyatt Detention Facility in
Central Falls, Rhode Island.
The lawyer, A. Ryan McGuigan, says jury selection that was scheduled
to begin Tuesday in federal court in Hartford has been postponed
indefinitely.
A tent set up by the FBI outside Robert Gentile’s home on May 2, 2016.
Prosecutors believe Gentile knows something about the still-unsolved,
1990 theft of $500 million worth of artwork from Boston’s Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, because another gangster’s widow claimed her
husband gave Gentile two of the paintings.
Gentile has denied knowing anything about the theft.
