tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-348741162024-03-13T20:02:22.171+00:00Stolen VermeerThe only blog to do what it says on the Tin, reveal the truth about art crime investigation.Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.comBlogger449125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-56083084857096520122022-06-30T00:59:00.001+01:002022-06-30T01:01:25.968+01:00Stolen Art Watch Art Crime Summer 22 Heating Up With $30 Million Jewel Heist Netherlands More Coming<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqAyvAwxIBbm9GTc2OrxP9ZgCleLUXYupp3uD0bS7EGWI8rtZNL_2_NSIxoMxydHJMPMpStbkDhbjU40zP7SIqAB7_gjBlKDUYaeXQn7X04Vdm7ctOGjU9u-QkJ9bg8uTXq8PtF_nGzWKQzCyJu9oxmKV8SYFzKAXZzk8cwlmUea06gfq1wMc/s1037/Dutch%20jewel%20heist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="828" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqAyvAwxIBbm9GTc2OrxP9ZgCleLUXYupp3uD0bS7EGWI8rtZNL_2_NSIxoMxydHJMPMpStbkDhbjU40zP7SIqAB7_gjBlKDUYaeXQn7X04Vdm7ctOGjU9u-QkJ9bg8uTXq8PtF_nGzWKQzCyJu9oxmKV8SYFzKAXZzk8cwlmUea06gfq1wMc/w512-h640/Dutch%20jewel%20heist.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><h1>
<span>Police release suspects held in Tefaf jewellery heist</span>
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<p>The two Belgians who were arrested in Maastricht on Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of involvement in <a href="https://nltimes.nl/2022/06/28/video-two-arrested-shocking-armed-robbery-tefaf-art-fair-maastricht">a theft at the Tefaf art fair</a> will be released from custody on Wednesday. They are no longer considered suspects, police said.</p>
<p>Police claim that the two people, aged 22 and 26, acted in such a
suspicious manner after the robbery that there was sufficient cause to
arrest them at that time for involvement in the art theft. Shortly after
the robbery, the two were conspicuously close to the Koning
Willem-Alexandertunnel, an underground portion of the A2 in Maastricht,
police said. In order to be able to detain them, the tunnel was shut
down. That caused long traffic jams on the A2 that stretched for several
kilometers.</p><p>With the release of the two Belgians, police no longer have any
suspects in custody for the violent crime. Police say they are looking
for at least four suspects. The Tefaf robbery was carried out by four
men, but may involve others, a police spokesperson said.</p>
<p>Video footage taken by witnesses showed four men dressed in sport
coats and slacks, with three of them wearing flat caps. One person was
seen smashing a glass display with a sledgehammer, and a brick may also
have been used to bash a whole into the case. One witness overheard a
worker state that <a href="https://nltimes.nl/2022/06/28/necklace-worth-eu27-million-snatched-tefaf-maastricht-art-fair-robbery-report">a 27 million euro necklace was stolen</a>.
others posited that a pair of Cartier earrings valued at 4 million
euros was taken in the heist. Neither authorities nor Tefaf have
remarked on the record about the value of the stolen goods.</p><p>Local media outlet L1 reported earlier in the day that <a href="https://nltimes.nl/2022/06/29/jewelry-found-suspects-arrested-tefaf-armed-robbery-report">no jewellery was found during a search</a> of the Belgians' vehicle. They were not believed to have even attended the fair, the broadcaster reported Wednesday morning.</p>
<p>The spokesperson was unable to provide more information on
Wednesday. The police are now calling on visitors who may have recorded
video footage with a dashcam to make those images available to the
authorities.</p>
"The Tefaf is a fair for people with higher-end cars, who often have a
dashcam. The people may not have noticed the robbery themselves, but
they may unsuspectingly have an image of the suspects. We are also
asking people from a neighboring residential area whether they have
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">More than 30 years later, a
tantalizing clue in the Gardner Museum art heist surfaces</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">By<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/shelley-murphy/?p1=Article_Byline" target="_tab"><span style="color: blue;"> Shelley Murphy</span></a> Globe Staff,Updated
November 30, 2021, 6:52 a.m.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/30/metro/more-than-30-years-later-tantalizing-clue-gardner-museum-art-heist-surfaces/?event=event25">https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/30/metro/more-than-30-years-later-tantalizing-clue-gardner-museum-art-heist-surfaces/?event=event25</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sometime after March 18, 1990,
Boston jeweler Paul Calantropo says he was shown a recently stolen eagle finial
from Napoleon’s Imperial Guard by a friend. It was one of 13 artworks recently
stolen in a robbery of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.Bob Self/Bob
Self for the Boston Globe</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On a
spring morning in 1990, Paul Calantropo was alone in his eighth-floor office at
the Jeweler’s Building in downtown Boston when he looked up at a security
camera and spotted a familiar figure walking down the hallway toward his door.
He buzzed him inside.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It was
Bobby Donati, a friend Calantropo had met decades earlier as a teenager in
Everett. Over the years, Calantropo had appraised diamonds, jewelry, and other
items Donati<b> </b>brought in, but said he was always uneasy about it because
he knew that Donati had<b> </b>been in and out of jail for robbery and hung out<b>
</b>with local mobsters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As they
sat across from each other, Donati unwrapped a shiny finial in the shape of an
eagle, according to Calantropo.<b> </b>He placed the decorative piece, designed
for the top of a flagstaff, on a desk and asked how much it was worth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This eagle finial was stolen from
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, among other valuable pieces of artwork.Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Calantropo
was stunned. He immediately recognized the<b> </b>gilded bronze object from
media reports as one of 13 pieces of artwork, including several Rembrandts,
that had been stolen about a month earlier from the <a href="https://www.gardnermuseum.org/about/theft" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: .4pt;">Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum</span></a>,<b>
</b>he told the Globe in an lengthy interview.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Jesus, Bobby
why didn’t you steal the Mona Lisa?” Calantropo recalled asking him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Donati
laughed as he lifted the finial and urged<b> </b>Calantropo to feel how heavy
it was, Calantropo said. He refused, unwilling to leave his fingerprints. The
artwork was worthless, he said. The whole world knew it was stolen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Donati
wrapped it up and left. It was the last time Calantropo saw him. The following
year, Donati, 50, was brutally murdered. His killer has never been found.
Neither, of course, has the finial, swiped from atop a Napoleonic flag during
the brazen heist.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Three
decades later,<b> </b>the largest art theft in US history remains unsolved,
despite a $10 million reward. No one has been charged and none of the artwork
has been recovered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Now 70,
Calantropo is speaking publicly for the first time about his meeting with
Donati, whose name first surfaced as a potential suspect in the heist in the
late 1990s. Calantropo, a jeweler and fine arts appraiser for more than 40
years before he retired to Florida,<b> </b>said he has no doubt the artwork
Donati showed him had been stolen from the museum<b>. </b>He said he kept quiet
about it for years because he feared for his safety. Five years ago, at the
urging of a friend, he said he met with an FBI agent and the museum’s security
director and told them about Donati’s visit, along with a detailed description
of the finial.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The
reported sighting of the stolen finial, so soon after the theft, offers a
tantalizing clue in the enduring mystery, bolstering other accounts linking
Donati to the crime. Over the past year, Calantropo has been working behind the
scenes with an unlikely assortment of sleuths — including a retired law
enforcement official, two former convicts and retired Boston Globe
investigative reporter Stephen Kurkjian — in hopes of finding the artwork.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In April,
the group signed an agreement with the Gardner Museum, which stipulates<b> </b>that
the members will share equally in the reward if they provide information that
leads to the return of the artwork in restorable condition, according to a copy
of the document Kurkjian<b> </b>shared with the Globe, along with a detailed
account of his work with the group.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Members
of the group said they gave the FBI several addresses that Donati may<b> </b>have
frequented, including a house in Everett where his former wife and sister had
lived.<b> </b>In August, the FBI conducted a thorough search there<b> </b>but
turned up nothing, according to Michael Kradolfer, a<b> </b>longtime
investigator for the Massachusetts Department of Correction who was assigned to
the FBI’s organized crime unit before retiring several years ago.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“I was
pretty crestfallen,” said Calantropo, a member of the group who is convinced
that Donati hid the artwork somewhere before he died. “I believe the secret of
the location died with Bobby.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">FBI spokeswoman
Kristen Setera declined to comment on Calantropo’s account or whether Donati is
believed to have been involved in the heist, citing the ongoing investigation.
She said the FBI is “focused on recovering the art and returning it to its
rightful place at the museum,” and “we’d be remiss if we didn’t take this
opportunity to remind everyone that the museum is still offering a $10 million
reward for information leading to the return of the artwork in good condition.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A
spokesman for the Gardner Museum declined to comment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But
Kradolfer, who arranged the 2016 meeting between Calantropo and the FBI agent
who was spearheading the Gardner theft investigation, said the FBI told him
that Calantropo’s<b> </b>recollection of the physical characteristics of the
finial was consistent with the one stolen from the museum, lending credence to
his account.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“I’m
thinking it’s huge,” Kradolfer said. “I knew if it was true it pretty much
identifies Donati as one of the thieves and that he had access to the paintings.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In the
early morning hours of March 18, 1990, two men dressed like police officers
talked their way into the museum in the Fenway, tied up two young guards, and
stole 13 pieces, including three Rembrandts, among them his only seascape, “The
Storm on the Sea of Galilee’;<b> </b>Vermeer’s “The Concert”; works by Flinck,
Manet, and Degas; an ancient Chinese vase, and the finial. The value of the
artwork is now estimated at more than $500 million.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There
have since been countless theories, a wide array of suspects, and voluminous
reports throughout the world of sightings of the masterworks, but few have been
deemed credible by authorities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In 2013,
the FBI announced it was confident it had identified the thieves — local
criminals who have since died — but declined to name them. Authorities said
they believed some of the artwork changed hands through organized crime circles
while moving from Boston to Connecticut to Philadelphia, where the trail went
cold. A witness deemed credible by the FBI claims to have seen one of the
paintings, “The Storm,” when someone tried to sell it in Philadelphia around
2003, the FBI has said. In 2015, the museum offered a $100,000 reward for
information leading directly to the finial, the least valuable item stolen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The FBI
has never publicly identified Donati as a suspect.<b> </b>But notorious art
thief Myles Connor wrote in his 2011 biography that he had cased the Gardner
museum with Donati years before the theft. Connor also said a longtime friend,
David Houghton, visited him in prison shortly after the robbery and told him Donati
was one of the thieves and they planned to leverage the artwork to win Connor’s
release. But Houghton died of heart disease in 1991.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In his
2015 book, “Master Thieves,” Kurkjian wrote that former New England Mafia capo
Vincent Ferrara claimed that in 1990 Donati confessed to him that he robbed the
museum, buried the artwork, and planned to use it to try to broker Ferrara’s
release from prison.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But in
September 1991, Donati was attacked outside his Revere home and his body was
found several days later in the trunk of his Cadillac, parked a mile away. He
had been stabbed repeatedly and his throat was slashed. At the time, law
enforcement officials speculated that he was targeted because of his close ties
to Ferrara, who was part of a renegade faction vying for control of the New
England Mafia. Donati’s criminal record dated to the 1950s and included
convictions for armed robbery, arson, bond theft and possession of counterfeit
bills. He was under investigation for drug trafficking at the time of his
slaying, according to authorities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Kurkjian
said he traveled to Florida to meet Calantropo last year after learning about
his claim that Donati asked him to appraise the stolen finial and found it to
be “the most authoritative account that I had heard of someone seeing any of
the stolen pieces after the theft.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Kurkjian
also shared a 2016 letter he obtained from a federal inmate that showed
investigators were focusing intensely on Donati in their hunt for the
paintings. In the letter, Anthony Amore, the Gardner museum’s security
director, asked whether the inmate could provide any information about Donati
and another potential suspect who had died.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Amore
wrote that he had reason to believe Donati “was involved in the theft and
possession of our paintings, and my reasons extend far beyond what had been
reported in various media reports and books.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Robert
Fisher, a former assistant US attorney who oversaw the Gardner investigation
from 2010 to 2016, said Donati was investigated as a potential suspect before
Calantropo came forward, and that he personally participated in an FBI search
of the Revere home where Donati had been living at the time of his murder.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He said
the theory that Donati hid the artwork before he was murdered would explain why
it has never been discovered. But he said he remained unconvinced<b> </b>that
Calantropo’s account was proof of Donati’s involvement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Until
these things are found, everyone’s thought process on this is still a theory,”
Fisher said. “I think I need more than that story to make Donati the prime
suspect. I would need corroboration that the story is even accurate, that this
guy did, in fact, see the finial.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A former
convict who is among the five people who signed the agreement with the Gardner
museum said he believes Calantropo’s account is credible. He said Calantropo
first told him about it 20 years ago and it took him years to convince
Calantropo to talk to the FBI and assist in the effort to recover the
paintings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Donati
trusted nobody,” said the man, who spoke on the condition he not be identified.
“I really believe that Donati buried them and I believe one day someone is
going to open up a wall and find them.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Art Hostage Comments:</b></span></p><p>Comments to follow.............<br /></p>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-76624884891381884502021-11-04T13:07:00.000+00:002021-11-04T13:07:01.131+00:00Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heist 2022 in 2021 With Casey Sherman, Dave Wedge, Lance Reenstierna & Tim Pilleri<p><span style="font-size: large;">Gardner Art Heist</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">What happened, where we are and where we go from here</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Casey, Dave, Lance & Tim thrash out the truth on why no Gardner art has been recovered in over 30 yrs. </span><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *" frameborder="0" height="175" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" src="https://embed.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/saints-sinners-serial-killers-episode-9-season-2-saints/id1557927085?i=1000540599288" style="background: transparent; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></iframe>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-36203606244705958442021-10-03T17:28:00.000+01:002021-10-03T17:28:15.261+01:00Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heist, Robert Gentile Passes Away, Maybe Takes Secrets to the Grave as Gravy Train continues<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWphyphenhyphenkbMGXf8SPtpChYMDvT7tx0K8Ccl3UBaxaWAuzRJFloRWu22ML4cnlIe-DdA8GTbZRG5l5nd3PcZvSptroDP6nOEOvxtcDivudyXYm0Jh5fN-R_u-vmHy098tZccBYTHT5g/s1908/Gentile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1908" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWphyphenhyphenkbMGXf8SPtpChYMDvT7tx0K8Ccl3UBaxaWAuzRJFloRWu22ML4cnlIe-DdA8GTbZRG5l5nd3PcZvSptroDP6nOEOvxtcDivudyXYm0Jh5fN-R_u-vmHy098tZccBYTHT5g/w400-h240/Gentile.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The passing of Robert the Cook Gentile sees the Gravy train of Gardner Heist carpetbaggers continue.</p><p>Latest is the lawyer of Robert Gentile<span> Hartford <em>Attorney Ryan</em> McGuigan</span> teasing he has some secrets about the Gardner case and might release them in the future, perhaps in book form?</p><p>However, Ryan is up for the Inspector General job in Ct, which might thwart any revelations on the Gardner case whilst Ryan serves.</p><p>Aside from the actual Gardner case itself, the story of the relationship between <span>Hartford <em>Attorney Ryan</em> McGuigan & Made man Robert Gentile in his last decade is worthy of a book.</span></p><p><span>The one universal thing agreed by all is those who have control of the Gardner art believe there is a trap waiting for them if they step forward. </span></p><p><span>Until this changes the only hope is an Informant being bullied into giving a location of the Gardner art.</span></p><p><span>The FBI & Gardner Museum have been trying this for the last 31 years without success. </span></p><p><span>Time to change direction.</span></p><p><span>Either come out and declare to the public the only acceptable way for recovery of the Gardner art is for people to be held to account and only then if charges are filed will any reward payment & Immunity from prosecution be considered. </span></p><p><span>Or, change direction and publish a Gardner Art Reward Price List, attracting some lesser valued stolen Gardner artworks being offered back as a Test Balloon.</span></p><p><span>Currently, the FBI & Gardner Museum speak with fork tongues, in public its all we dont want to prosecute, we will pay the reward, offer immunity. </span></p><p><span>In private its we will only accept an informant willing to testify and reserve the right to withhold any reward payments until all 13 pieces are recovered. </span></p><p><span>to be continued...............</span></p><h1 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 byfISR headline">Did CT mobster leave information on stolen Gardner art in his will?</h1><section class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 byfISR ts-byline "><span class="ts-byline__by">By</span><span class="ts-byline__names"> <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/author/bob-ward/">Bob Ward, Boston 25 News</a></span></section><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph"><a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/did-ct-mobster-leave-information-stolen-gardner-art-his-will/GOJTDGZZ5FFH7JMOCRD5IWHRJY/"> https://www.boston25news.com/news/did-ct-mobster-leave-information-stolen-gardner-art-his-will/GOJTDGZZ5FFH7JMOCRD5IWHRJY/</a></p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">HARTFORD,
Conn. — Last Friday, Connecticut mobster Robert Gentile died in a
Hartford, Connecticut hospital. Some think his death presented the last
best chance to recover the precious artwork stolen from Boston’s
Isabella Steward Gardner Museum.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">Gardner Museum Security Chief Anthony Amore does not believe that.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“We’re not deterred, or downtrodden or delayed, because of the death of Robert Gentile,” Amore said.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">Federal
investigators believe Robert Gentile was likely involved with moving
the stolen Gardner Museum artwork from Boston to possibly Philadelphia
for sale But now Robert Gentile is dead.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“I think he took information to the grave, certainly, I just don’t know what it was. And we’ll never know now,” Amore said.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">The
feds believe Robert Gentile came into the picture years after the
Gardner theft in 1991 in an effort to move the stolen paintings.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">When
the feds hit Gentile’s Connecticut house with search warrants, they
didn’t find the paintings, but they did find other evidence, including a
handwritten list of the stolen art with their street values. Gentile
later failed a government polygraph.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“You
can’t bank everything on a polygraph, of course, but when you add it to
the totality to what we know, it’s an interesting fact,” Amore said.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">Robert
Gentile’s lawyer, Ryan McGuigan, has long championed Gentile’s case,
alleging federal investigators were overreaching in their pursuit of the
stolen art. But in a telephone interview, McGuigan told me he has his
own questions about his client’s alleged role in the saga of the Gardner
Art Heist.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“Is
there any information that [Gentile] shared with you that might shed
some light on who had the paintings, where they went, and who might have
them now?” I asked.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“Yes,
we had many conversations about the paintings over the years. We’ve had
a lot of conversations. I have drawn some conclusions about what may
have happened ultimately and where they went. But at this point, I’m not
really willing to share that.” McGuigan said.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">I asked, “Is this information the government has?”</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“No, no,” McGuigan answered.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“Robert
Gentile left behind a will. Is there anything in that will, that you
are aware of, that might shed some light on the stolen paintings?” I
asked.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“At
this point, I cannot comment on that,” McGuigan said. “My law firm
drafted the will for him, so I will respect the beneficiaries of the
will, I can’t comment.”</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“Is it possible there is something there and you need to look at it?” I pressed.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“It’s possible. I haven’t looked at it in some time,” McGuigan said.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">He added later, “It could be the beginning of the last chapter.”</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">Anthony
Amore would not comment on McGuigan’s statements. However, Amore said
it is not uncommon for stolen art to be returned a generation after it
is taken.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">“Mr.
Gentile has passed away. Maybe there is somebody out there who is less
afraid to speak and will now come forward. I hope they do,” Amore said.</p><p class="default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 dTyzpr body-paragraph">The
Boston FBI issued a statement Thursday saying the case remains open and
active for its agents. And the Bureau issued a reminder that the reward
offered in this case stands at $10 million.</p>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-31854397022488277622021-08-17T19:06:00.000+01:002021-08-17T19:06:18.190+01:00Stolen Art Watch: Netflix Gardner Art Heist Series Swerves Reward & Immunity, Casey Sherman Exposes Bullying Intimidation
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<p> </p><p> <a href="https://www.necn.com/the-ten/heres-what-to-know-about-netflixs-upcoming-docuseries-on-the-gardner-museum-heist/2439402/?fbclid=IwAR0ECGxo581KU_WNSZK5IDtx2mmNzzyHzc8q_0xE9XgC4EQAcvCpdgU7Z_c">https://www.necn.com/the-ten/heres-what-to-know-about-netflixs-upcoming-docuseries-on-the-gardner-museum-heist/2439402/?fbclid=IwAR0ECGxo581KU_WNSZK5IDtx2mmNzzyHzc8q_0xE9XgC4EQAcvCpdgU7Z_c</a></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"> <span style="font-size: large;">Casey Sherman Destroys Gardner Art Heist Myth
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s now been thirty years since
two thieves dressed as police officers stole 13 artworks worth $500 million
from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990 and we are still no
closer to solving this enduring mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But there’s always a story within
the story and that is certainly the case with the Gardner heist which has more
layers than a Russian nesting doll.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The investigation gets curiouser
and curiouser with a cast of characters that appears to have jumped off the
screen from a Guy Ritchie film. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">First, there's "Turbo"
Paul Hendry, a former art thief turned sleuth living in England who has been
following the case since it broke three decades ago when Vermeer’s “The
Concert” and Rembrandt’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee” vanished
into thin air. Hendry is a popular voice in the Gardner Heist community, having
been featured in the 2005 documentary Stolen.</span></span><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> He had a bone to pick with me when I gave celebrated Dutch art investigator </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> sole credit for a proposal to offer individual rewards for the missing pieces in my </span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> column. He's right</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">... Turbo Paul</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> came up with the original idea years ago. Nevertheless, he shared my article on social media</span><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> He's been working this case like
a dog with a bone for years and has been a vocal critic of Anthony Amore, the
museum's longtime director of security.</span></span><br />
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This
criticism reportedly prompted
an angry phone call from Chris Marinello of Art Recovery International .
Hendry alleges that Chris Marinello threatened to “destroy” him if he
didn’t remove more than 30 tweets from his Twitter profile “Art Hostage”
criticizing Amore’s lack of results.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Is
the museum security director
using a proxy to crush any dissent of his investigation? I asked that
question to Chris Marinello himself by phone. He calls Hendry’s accusations
“ridiculous”. I also reached out to the museum for comment. “The
allegations
that the Gardner Museum or Mr. Amore are encouraging or condoning any
intimidation or pressure efforts by Chris Marinello toward the recipient are
categorically false," said Griff McNerney, Museum Communications
Manager. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The museum’s cocksure declaration was curious as no one at the institution ever
even asked to speak to the alleged victim in this case. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If this is the way the
investigation into the stolen artwork is being conducted also, it’s no wonder
they haven’t recovered anything in thirty years.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Is this the image the Gardner
Museum wishes to project to the world?</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If thuggery and intimidation are
tactics being used to quash criticism of the Gardner investigation, museum
director Peggy Fogelman should step in and make changes immediately. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">First, it’s time to fire security director
Anthony Amore who has been leading the museum’s investigation for the past 15
years. He’s never recovered a piece of stolen art in his life. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine if Bill
Belichick had never won a playoff game in 15 years? He’d have been out of a job
a long time ago.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead of chasing leads, Amore
spends more time on social media on any given work day than Perez Hilton. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He’s also used his position to
launch a disastrous run for Massachusetts Secretary of State and has published
four books about stolen art including two coloring books. It seems that the
only person that has profited from the art heist, outside of the thieves, is
Anthony Amore.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Arthur Brand, dubbed “The Indiana
Jones of the Art World”, has taken to social media calling for Amore to “move
over” and let more seasoned investigators take the lead on recovering the
stolen art. Brand made headlines last year for finding and returning a $68
million Picasso that was stolen twenty years ago from a luxury yacht in the
French Riviera. Amore’s dismissed Brand, telling me during an online
conversation, </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“We have no comment on some guy’s (bleeping) twitter.” This
institutional arrogance is one of the many reasons that not one stolen art work
has been recovered on Amore’s watch.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s like Inspector Clouseau thumbing
his nose at Hercule Poirot. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Is Anthony Amore the person we want
leading the charge to return 13 artworks to its rightful place here in Boston
as we mark the 30th anniversary of the notorious heist? I think not.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Casey Sherman is a New York Times
bestselling author of 11 books including the upcoming Hunting Whitey: The
Inside Story of the Capture and Killing of America's Most Wanted Mob Boss.
Follow him on Twitter @caseysherman123</span></span></p><p><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" height="224" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsuzVpRXUAUSuI-?format=png&name=large" width="640" /></p>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-26739575348666810882021-04-09T02:04:00.000+01:002021-04-09T02:04:04.302+01:00Stolen Art Watch: Netflix Gardner Art Heist Series Swerves Reward & Immunity, Casey Sherman Exposes Bullying Intimidation<p><span style="font-size: large;">Casey Sherman interviewed, calls for Gardner Art Reward rethink </span><br /></p><p>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s now been thirty years since
two thieves dressed as police officers stole 13 artworks worth $500 million
from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990 and we are still no
closer to solving this enduring mystery.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But there’s always a story within
the story and that is certainly the case with the Gardner heist which has more
layers than a Russian nesting doll.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The investigation gets curiouser
and curiouser with a cast of characters that appears to have jumped off the
screen from a Guy Ritchie film. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First, there's "Turbo"
Paul Hendry, a former art thief turned sleuth living in England who has been
following the case since it broke three decades ago when Vermeer’s “The
Concert” and Rembrandt’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee” vanished
into thin air. Hendry is a popular voice in the Gardner Heist community, having
been featured in the 2005 documentary Stolen.</span></span><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> He had a bone to pick with me when I gave celebrated Dutch art investigator </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> column. He's right</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">... Turbo Paul</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> came up with the original idea years ago. Nevertheless, he shared my article on social media</span><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> He's been working this case like
a dog with a bone for years and has been a vocal critic of Anthony Amore, the
museum's longtime director of security.</span></span><br />
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an angry phone call from Chris Marinello of Art Recovery International . Hendry alleges that Chris Marinello threatened to “destroy” him if he
didn’t remove more than 30 tweets from his Twitter profile “Art Hostage”
criticizing Amore’s lack of results.</span></span></div>
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the museum security director
using a proxy to crush any dissent of his investigation? I asked that
question to Chris Marinello himself by phone. He calls Hendry’s accusations
“ridiculous”. I also reached out to the museum for comment. “The
allegations
that the Gardner Museum or Mr. Amore are encouraging or condoning any
intimidation or pressure efforts by Chris Marinello toward the recipient are
categorically false," said Griff McNerney, Museum Communications
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even asked to speak to the alleged victim in this case. </span></span></div>
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investigation into the stolen artwork is being conducted also, it’s no wonder
they haven’t recovered anything in thirty years.</span></span></div>
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tactics being used to quash criticism of the Gardner investigation, museum
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Anthony Amore who has been leading the museum’s investigation for the past 15
years. He’s never recovered a piece of stolen art in his life. </span></span></div>
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a long time ago.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead of chasing leads, Amore
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launch a disastrous run for Massachusetts Secretary of State and has published
four books about stolen art including two coloring books. It seems that the
only person that has profited from the art heist, outside of the thieves, is
Anthony Amore.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Arthur Brand, dubbed “The Indiana
Jones of the Art World”, has taken to social media calling for Amore to “move
over” and let more seasoned investigators take the lead on recovering the
stolen art. Brand made headlines last year for finding and returning a $68
million Picasso that was stolen twenty years ago from a luxury yacht in the
French Riviera. Amore’s dismissed Brand, telling me during an online
conversation, </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We have no comment on some guy’s (bleeping) twitter.” This
institutional arrogance is one of the many reasons that not one stolen art work
has been recovered on Amore’s watch.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s like Inspector Clouseau thumbing
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leading the charge to return 13 artworks to its rightful place here in Boston
as we mark the 30th anniversary of the notorious heist? I think not.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Casey Sherman is a New York Times
bestselling author of 11 books including the upcoming Hunting Whitey: The
Inside Story of the Capture and Killing of America's Most Wanted Mob Boss.
Follow him on Twitter @caseysherman123</span></span></p><p><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" height="140" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsuzVpRXUAUSuI-?format=png&name=large" width="400" /></p>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-26581521853662698912021-03-12T15:55:00.000+00:002021-03-12T15:55:30.357+00:00Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heist Revisited, Fact or Fiction, Will the Reward/Immunity ever be looked at?<p> </p><p>
</p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OH18cKTmwZ8" width="400"></iframe></p><p>Yet another attenpt to tell the Gardner Art Heist story, this time we might get some names of thieves, but the vital route to recover any Gardner art is a "Gardner Art Reward Price List" to flush out some lesser valued stolen Gardner art. </p><p>Sadly from the get go FBI Gardner Museum have only ever wanted an informant willing to testify, 31 yrs later not a single artwork recovered. <br /></p>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-66870182285488151332021-01-01T13:56:00.002+00:002021-02-28T13:55:02.775+00:00Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heist, 31 Yrs in March 2021, Same Old, Same Old, Informants only<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-E5rX4D5xXpC55Wuicxxwvjo_ICcIqkVi5XdiIw__mH474K1sE6sthD1gwhIh409sValVq8Pn5FhwCCaHkdjO92RQ-qMp-DMvbR4U2GITsXW5E1qq5BImlO7WC2URO4Vdy0hCQ/s1280/Anthony+Amore+Relentless.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-E5rX4D5xXpC55Wuicxxwvjo_ICcIqkVi5XdiIw__mH474K1sE6sthD1gwhIh409sValVq8Pn5FhwCCaHkdjO92RQ-qMp-DMvbR4U2GITsXW5E1qq5BImlO7WC2URO4Vdy0hCQ/w400-h225/Anthony+Amore+Relentless.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p>Anthony Amore confirms he is only interested in "Informants" no interest at all in a negociated settlement to recover any Gardner art.</p><p>"In reality these older cases like mine are solved because wives become
ex wives and children become estranged and the bad guys become less
scary"</p><p>All the lies about offering to speak to a Lawyer of anyone with knowledge of the Gardner Art is all about getting leads, then unleashing the FBI on them if they refuse to become an informant.</p><p>If a lawyer approaches the Gardner Museum or FBI saying they have a client with information about the Gardner Art Heist case, but they do not want to be identified, the FBI will put the lawyer in front of a Grand Jury and demand they reveal the name of their client, if the Lawyer refuses to name their client the Lawyer is jailed for 18 months for Contempt of Court, until the Grand Jury is discharged, after 18months. So, like all things Gardner Art Heist case, there is a trap waiting for anyone with information. <br /></p><p>If the FBI, Gardner Museum & Anthony Amore are so keen to get their art back, why not issue a Reward Price List as all 13 pieces unlikely to still be together, in any case, even if all 13 pieces of Gardner art are held together, then reward price list will smoke out a lesser valued stolen Gardner artwork as test balloon.</p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L-6n0yLiz7w" width="400"></iframe>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-53399274832985191572020-10-20T13:27:00.001+01:002020-10-26T00:17:11.498+00:00Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heist, BBC John Wilson Dares To Go Where Angels Fear To Tread, Extracts An Immunity Deal From US Attorney Andrew Lelling<p> <img alt="" class="image" height="225" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p08vcq5n.jpg" width="400" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-TPb-nyuyw&feature=emb_logo"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-TPb-nyuyw&feature=emb_logo"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s-TPb-nyuyw" width="320" youtube-src-id="s-TPb-nyuyw"></iframe></a></div><p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-TPb-nyuyw&feature=emb_logo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-TPb-nyuyw&feature=emb_logo</a></p><p>- <br /></p><p><a href=" https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000nnzl/the-billion-dollar-art-hunt"> https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000nnzl/the-billion-dollar-art-hunt</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nnzl"> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nnzl</a></p><p> <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">John Wilson knocks it out of the park, gets US Attorney Andrew Lelling to offer immunity for the Gardner Vermeer exclusively, the first definitive offer, Vermeer for Immunity. next stop immunity for any stolen Gardner artwork.</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The taboo subject on the Gardner case is the reward, and also immunity, no one has dared to touch it, its the third rail, touch it and you loose all access to FBI Gardner Museum Amore etc, hence why mainstream media has complied thus far.</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">It leaves a gaping hole, open goal for a film maker who dares to cross the line
John Wilson is the first film maker to raise the issue of Immunity and extracted a firm deal offer from US Attorney Andrew lelling,"Gardner Museum Vermeer"4full immunity,</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Control the "Gardner Museum Vermeer" & you run the table.
"Gardner Art Reward Price List" will unlock the lesser valued stolen Gardner artworks such as Degas drawings, Eagle finial, Bronze vase as test balloons for Rembrandts, Manet & Vermeer</span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">US Attorney Andrew Lelling offered full immunity for the return of the Gardner Museum Vermeer. This is called Transactional Immunity with a provision that the witness not be required to testify against anyone involved in the Gardner case or subsequent handling of any Gardner art.</span></span> </span></p>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-76009828224641226832020-09-30T19:01:00.000+01:002020-09-30T19:01:01.750+01:00Stolen Art Watch, Casey Sherman Destroys Gardner Art Heist Myth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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two thieves dressed as police officers stole 13 artworks worth $500 million
from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990 and we are still no
closer to solving this enduring mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But there’s always a story within
the story and that is certainly the case with the Gardner heist which has more
layers than a Russian nesting doll.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The investigation gets curiouser
and curiouser with a cast of characters that appears to have jumped off the
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First, there's "Turbo"
Paul Hendry, a former art thief turned sleuth living in England who has been
following the case since it broke three decades ago when Vermeer’s “The
Concert” and Rembrandt’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee” vanished
into thin air. Hendry is a popular voice in the Gardner Heist community, having
been featured in the 2005 documentary Stolen.</span></span><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> He had a bone to pick with me when I gave celebrated Dutch art investigator </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> column. He's right</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">... Turbo Paul</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> came up with the original idea years ago. Nevertheless, he shared my article on social media</span><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> He's been working this case like
a dog with a bone for years and has been a vocal critic of Anthony Amore, the
museum's longtime director of security.</span></span><br />
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an angry phone call from *******, . Hendry alleges that ******* threatened to “destroy” him if he
didn’t remove more than 30 tweets from his Twitter profile “Art Hostage”
criticizing Amore’s lack of results.</span></span></div>
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the museum security director
using a proxy to crush any dissent of his investigation? I asked that
question to ****** himself by phone. He calls Hendry’s accusations
“ridiculous”. I also reached out to the museum for comment. “The
allegations
that the Gardner Museum or Mr. Amore are encouraging or condoning any
intimidation or pressure efforts by ***** toward the recipient are
categorically false," said Griff McNerney, Museum Communications
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investigation into the stolen artwork is being conducted also, it’s no wonder
they haven’t recovered anything in thirty years.</span></span></div>
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Museum wishes to project to the world?</span></span></div>
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tactics being used to quash criticism of the Gardner investigation, museum
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First, it’s time to fire security director
Anthony Amore who has been leading the museum’s investigation for the past 15
years. He’s never recovered a piece of stolen art in his life. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine if Bill
Belichick had never won a playoff game in 15 years? He’d have been out of a job
a long time ago.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead of chasing leads, Amore
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launch a disastrous run for Massachusetts Secretary of State and has published
four books about stolen art including two coloring books. It seems that the
only person that has profited from the art heist, outside of the thieves, is
Anthony Amore.</span></span></div>
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Jones of the Art World”, has taken to social media calling for Amore to “move
over” and let more seasoned investigators take the lead on recovering the
stolen art. Brand made headlines last year for finding and returning a $68
million Picasso that was stolen twenty years ago from a luxury yacht in the
French Riviera. Amore’s dismissed Brand, telling me during an online
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institutional arrogance is one of the many reasons that not one stolen art work
has been recovered on Amore’s watch.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s like Inspector Clouseau thumbing
his nose at Hercule Poirot. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is Anthony Amore the person we want
leading the charge to return 13 artworks to its rightful place here in Boston
as we mark the 30th anniversary of the notorious heist? I think not.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Casey Sherman is a New York Times
bestselling author of 11 books including the upcoming Hunting Whitey: The
Inside Story of the Capture and Killing of America's Most Wanted Mob Boss.
Follow him on Twitter @caseysherman123</span></span>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-7511995675345170962020-08-01T01:51:00.001+01:002020-08-01T01:51:23.880+01:00Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heist, Joe Gibbons & Tony Oursler in the Frame,Charles Pinning Explains on Empty Frames Podcast<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-65vUf5BP7Y" width="400"></iframe>
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The ‘Sociopath’ Scholar Who Made Films of His Crimes Tried to Confess to America’s Most Famous Art Heist</h1>
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Out
of Rikers and facing a bank robbery charge in Providence, he’s trying
to complete his masterpiece of ‘autobiographical fiction’ that began
with buying a dime bag.</h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>“Don’t spoil a good story by telling the truth.”—Isabella Gardner, founder of Boston’s Gardner Museum.</i></span></span></h2>
In February 2017, Joe Gibbons sat in a <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/greenwich-village">Greenwich Village</a> restaurant and calmly confessed to a role in the largest art heist in American history. <br />
Gibbons, a filmmaker and former MIT lecturer now in his mid-sixties—back in circulation after pleading guilty in 2014 to a <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/manhattan">Manhattan</a>
bank robbery and spending a year in jail—had already confessed and
would soon be charged with another bank robbery, this one in Providence,
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/rhode-island">Rhode Island</a>.<br />
He
was sitting with a Pulitzer-winning journalist, Stephen Kurkjian, and a
novelist, Charles Pinning, both of whom had traveled from New England
and knocked on his door that afternoon. Their visit came weeks after an
assistant U.S. attorney in <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> had called Gibbons’ lawyer to inquire about his possible involvement in the Isabella Gardner Museum heist.<br />
In March of 1990, a security guard at the Boston museum let
in two thieves dressed as police officers who proceeded to steal $500
million worth of art, including works by <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/relishing-rembrandts-blockbuster-london-show">Rembrandt</a>, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-two-dutch-geniuses-taught-us-to-see">Vermeer</a>, and <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/misty-copeland-re-creates-iconic-degas-paintings">Degas</a>. The guard, who now lives in Vermont, was never charged and has long denied any involvement in the heist. <br />
Twenty-seven
years later, Gibbons, chasing a morning’s worth of Jameson down with a
Kir Royal, was toasted—“well lubricated,” he calls it—and ready to
confess. <br />
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Soon
after midnight on the morning following St. Patrick’s Day, 1990,
Gibbons told his audience of two, he was at the Gardner Museum, to score
a dime-dag from a security guard there he’d bought from before.The
guard told him to walk with him into the closed museum’s
Blue Room with the promise of a dime bag, he said. There, several
masterpieces were spread across the floor. “I don’t know how to get them
out of the frames,” he says the security guard told him. He stomped on
Rembrandt’s <i>Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee</i>, the artist’s only known seascape. <br />
“That’s not the way to do it!” Gibbons yelled. <br />
The guard threw another piece of art on the floor, a Rembrandt sketch. “Do you want this one? Do you want this one?” he teased. <br />
Gibbons
rejected the offer, he said, in part because he “wasn’t a big fan of
Rembrandt” but helped the guard pull off the caper. “I showed how you
could remove the backings of the paintings and take the canvases out.”<br />
His
wife walked into the restaurant, and cut the interview short, not
wanting her husband’s name attached to still another crime even as he
faces possible jail time for the Providence robbery. So Gibbons wrapped
it up, saying that he’d run out of the museum with a dime bag and
without any of the paintings. <br />
Still, he had confessed, before two writers to his role in the white whale of a crime that’s filled decades of <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/18/six-theories-behind-stolen-gardner-museum-paintings/JmwHou86qo5MtBzX1fb9cI/story.html">newspaper </a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/arts/design/25-years-after-gardner-museum-heist-video-raises-questions.html">column</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/07/surveillance-video-raises-questions-and-possible-clues-in-25-year-old-museum-mystery/?utm_term=.bab1f55e93fb">inches</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9HlQ5FPKYE">TV</a>-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbhFNXFyJ0">news</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1mzMh0sugg">airtime</a> and the <a data-amzn-asin="1610396324" href="http://aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com/x/c/QsCrvBg4S4M4OsBHW1lLS04AAAFe2YmDLwEAAAFKAU-n4Js/https://www.amazon.com/Master-Thieves-Boston-Gangsters-Greatest/dp/1610396324/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=1610396324&linkCode=w50&tag=thedailybeast-autotag-20&imprToken=jQtTB.n1h-Nk4slZOmdRKg&slotNum=0">pages</a> of <a data-amzn-asin="0061451843" href="http://aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com/x/c/QsCrvBg4S4M4OsBHW1lLS04AAAFe2YmDLwEAAAFKAU-n4Js/https://www.amazon.com/Gardner-Heist-Worlds-Largest-Unsolved/dp/0061451843/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=0061451843&linkCode=w50&tag=thedailybeast-autotag-20&imprToken=jQtTB.n1h-Nk4slZOmdRKg&slotNum=1">non</a>-<a data-amzn-asin="0230339905" href="http://aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com/x/c/QsCrvBg4S4M4OsBHW1lLS04AAAFe2YmDLwEAAAFKAU-n4Js/https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Rembrandts-Untold-Stories-Notorious/dp/0230339905/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=0230339905&linkCode=w50&tag=thedailybeast-autotag-20&imprToken=jQtTB.n1h-Nk4slZOmdRKg&slotNum=2">fiction</a> <a data-amzn-asin="0307461483" href="http://aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com/x/c/QsCrvBg4S4M4OsBHW1lLS04AAAFe2YmDLwEAAAFKAU-n4Js/https://www.amazon.com/Priceless-Undercover-Rescue-Worlds-Treasures/dp/0307461483/ref=as_at/?creativeASIN=0307461483&linkCode=w50&tag=thedailybeast-autotag-20&imprToken=jQtTB.n1h-Nk4slZOmdRKg&slotNum=3&_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=9J6FFDEYXRQNJ6RZCQMP">books</a> with speculation about who done it. <br />
Asked
about his involvement with Gibbons, Kurkjian told me in July that “I’m
no longer working with him and have asked that he not associate me with
the reporting any longer.” Pinning refused comment. <br />
<b>***</b><br />
But
what to make of the confession of a criminal and artist who’s dedicated
both careers to his “autobiographical fiction” propagating the myth of
Joe Gibbons, artist, filmmaker and self-alleged criminal mastermind?<br />
Gibbons
began to cultivate that myth in Oakland, 1977. Then in his early
twenties, he moved to the Bay Area after attending Antioch College in
Ohio. He was welcomed into the art scene and began making films. He also
kickstarted his career as a petty criminal. <br />
The
intersection of his two careers garnered press attention when
Gibbons—well-lubricated at the time—grabbed a painting off the wall of
the Oakland Museum during an opening party for artist Richard
Diebenkorn. <br />
Gibbons shoved the painting beneath his
coat, and waltzed past hundreds of party guests and the museum’s
security. The police tracked him down, but rather than go quietly, he
seized the opportunity. <br />
He was a member of a renegade
group of six artists called the “Art Liberation Front,” Gibbons claimed.
The Front had a manifesto, dreamt up by Gibbons: They were critical of
the arbitrary value placed on a piece of art—but they were also
publicity hungry. <br />
“We’re inveterate opportunists,” Gibbons <a href="https://voices.revealdigital.com/cgi-bin/independentvoices?a=d&d=BFBJFGD19771028.1.19&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------------1#">told the <i>Berkeley Barb</i> after the theft</a>.
“Our philosophy is full of contradictions. It had nothing to do with
Diebenkorn—it was about museums in general. We saw the opportunity for
some publicity and we grabbed it.<br />
“Basically we’re
creating meta-art, which is art about art,” he told the paper. “We are
whimsically critical of the art establishment as well as the art-critic
contingent, who view art solely in terms of its commodity function—its
exchange value versus its use value.” <br />
By their logic,
the frame was the only piece of a painting that had any actual value.
Before the police caught up with him, The Front agreed they would return
the painting, but keep the frame hostage. One of their ransom demands,
the group told the <i>Barb</i>, was for the Oakland Museum to hold an exhibition with nothing but frames.<br />
That
crime, which Gibbons unquestionably committed, might draw someone to
believe he could’ve somehow been involved in the famous Gardner Museum
heist. Beyond the obvious art-crime connection, there are the frames. On
that early March morning in 1990, the Gardner Museum thieves cut the
paintings out and left the frames—which still hang there, with nothing
in them.<br />
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I
first connected with Gibbons through a Facebook message this summer.
I’d seen a news alert about a bank robbery in downtown Manhattan, and
Gibbons, who I’d covered as a reporter, popped into my head. I messaged
him, hoping to find out how he’d adjusted after jail. When we met
Washington Square Park on a recent afternoon, he recounted the story of
the two writers who knocked on his door in February, and produced a
recording of his confession. <br />
“It’s an old myth the
artist has to have experiences, which he can then use for his material,”
Gibbons told me between sips from a can of bubbly wine. His gray hair
was unkempt and long on the sides. He has few teeth left in his mouth.<br />
“When
I was a teenager, I thought I was innocent and protected, my
upbringing,” he said. “I needed to really get dirty. Get my hands
dirty.”<br />
In his films, Gibbons’ combined his dry wit and intellect with transgressive material. <br />
“He
was always flirting with a certain amount of criminality. It was always
one of his subjects,” said noted film critic Jim Hoberman, who was one
of the first journalists to write about Gibbons’ work. “He was already
notorious for having stolen that painting” from the Oakland Museum.<br />
Gibbons’
contemporaries in late 1970s and early 1980s in New York were creating
overtly sexual films in a trumped-up John Waters’ style, Hoberman said. <br />
Gibbons,
on the other hand, was also exploring taboo subjects, but with wit and
nuance. “He was transgressive in a way that was much more interesting to
me,” Hoberman said. “His films were just much more interesting,
conceptually and visually. I was very supportive of them. I thought he
was doing something new.”<br />
In his 1978 film, <i>Spying</i>,
for example, Gibbons secretly recorded his neighbors in San Francisco
as they sunbathed, gardened, kissed one another, and did other routine
tasks. <br />
The film flirted with the taboo of voyeurism, but also commented on American daily life. <br />
When
it was screened by the film society of Lincoln Center in 2012, they
published critiques of the film by Hoberman and filmmakers who knew
Gibbons’ work. <br />
“It’s an aggressive film in its Rear
Window quality,” wrote artist Peggy Ahwesh, “but also a film that
exposes the pathos of a loner as he gazes on to the lives of others who
are active, have relationships, lovers, pets and manage to accomplish
the small tasks of daily life. Spying is the ultimate home movie.”<br />
Away from the camera, Gibbons continued to find new material in his own criminality. <br />
After
the Oakland Museum theft, Gibbons began stealing books at shops along
Telegraph Avenue near the University of Berkeley’s campus, in part to
pay for lawyer fees, he said. He would also steal champagne, his drink
of choice.<br />
The book thefts were a clever scam, Gibbons
said. He would take an academic book from a shop and immediately flip it
at another store, sometimes for a several-hundred dollar payout. <br />
He
went on to plead guilty in 1979 to a felony for stealing the Diebenkorn
painting, and was offered a deal to complete a drug-treatment program
in lieu of a prison sentence. <br />
“The court gave me the opportunity of spending a year in a therapeutic community, or a year in Santa Rita jail,” he said. <br />
Gibbons,
raised in Providence, moved back to the East Coast and entered the
McLean Psychiatric Hospital. When he completed the program in 1980, he
spent a short time in a New York City halfway house and reverted back to
his petty crimes, he said. <br />
“The triggers were still
there. I immediately went back to stealing books,” he said. “I was, as I
say, conducting research, having experiences I could later distill into
art.” <br />
After five months in New York, Gibbons moved to
Boston, where his avant-garde film career flourished as he made films
based on his actual experiences, conflated for effect. “I used the
circumstances that I found myself in as a base for fiction,” he said.<br />
As he racked up parking tickets in Boston and in Rhode Island in the 1980s, his film <i>A Fugitive in Paris</i> opens with him jumping out of a window, running from the Boston Police after him because of them. <br />
The film also goes on to explore another crime Gibbons had yet to commit at that point in his life: bank robbery. <br />
His
work in this period would be shown in New York’s Museum of Modern Art
and the Whitney Biennial. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship and received a
range of praise and criticism from critics. <br />
His most acclaimed work, <i>Confessions of a Sociopath</i>,
was released in 2001. It includes a number of old recordings, shot at
various points in Gibbons’ life, that show him appearing to break the
law in different ways. In one scene he shoots heroin; in another he
steals a book. <br />
Gibbons earned the Guggenheim Fellowship
soon after the film was released and started the most stable job he ever
held: a lecturing position at MIT. <br />
“I had ruled out teaching, but I’d gotten an MFA because the only way I could finish my film, <i>The Genius</i> was by getting a staffer’s loan,” he said. <br />
He
would spend nearly a decade in the lecturing role in MIT’s Art,
Culture, and Technology program, but was forced to leave in 2010 because
he didn’t earn tenure. <br />
“I would’ve liked to continue there,” he said. “Nine years is the limit for a not-tenured.” <br />
Gibbons
returned to producing avant-garde films full time after he left MIT,
but struggled to achieve the same success he had earlier in his career. <br />
In
November 2014, Gibbons walked into a Providence bank, stood in line,
passed the teller a robbery note and walked away with almost $3,000, he
said. <br />
“I could just go in and stand in line. That’s what
allowed me to follow through with it,” he recounted. “So I went through
with it and it worked out as I imagined it.” <br />
Gibbons’ fascination with crime was part of his motive, he said. <br />
“Bank
robbery was something that always had a mystique that represented to me
the pinnacle of criminal achievement,” he said. “It sort’ve represented
an achievement because it’s sort of the opposite of the way I was
raised.”<br />
After the Providence bank robbery, Gibbons
traveled to New York, where he says he stayed in budget hotels in
downtown Manhattan and drank heavily. <br />
Weeks later, he was again out of money and options, he said.<br />
“I
ran out of people I could ask for money. I had to leave the place I was
staying because either I couldn’t afford it or I wasn’t welcome there
anymore,” he said. “What would be more stressful? Going to the men’s
shelter at Bellevue or robbing a bank?”<br />
He answered his
own question by walking into a bank in Manhattan’s Chinatown on the
afternoon of New Year’s Eve day 2014, standing in line before passing
the teller a note demanding cash. Another customer happened to walk up
to the counter at the same time and distracted the bank attendant. To
refocus the attendant’s attention, Gibbons lifted his hands onto the
counter and revealed a small video camera recording his heist, in which
he walked off with $1,002. <br />
After he was arrested days
later, Gibbons told the NYPD he’d committed the Manhattan bank robbery,
and also the one he’s now charged with in Providence. He pleaded guilty
in the New York case in July 2015, and was sentenced to a year in jail
with credit for the six months he had already served. <br />
When
Gibbons walked out of Rikers Island in September of 2015, he hoped he
was due for a big promotion in his entwined film and petty crime
careers. <br />
His arrest had made a splash in the press after
the New York tabloids first reported the crime. The story would go on
to be covered in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/nyregion/filmmaker-joe-gibbons-gets-a-year-in-prison-for-a-robbery-he-called-performance-art.html?mcubz=3"><i>The New York Times</i></a>, <a href="http://people.com/crime/former-mit-professor-joseph-gibbons-allegedly-robbed-bank-filmed-it/"><i>People</i> magazine</a>, and in an exhaustive <a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2015/10/27/joe-gibbons-artist-or-thief/"><i>Boston</i> magazine profile</a>. A documentary film crew even wanted to capture his post-incarceration life through their lens. <br />
The myth of Joe Gibbons was growing again. <br />
He
earned a new nickname in jail—Joey Banks—that’s now the greeting on his
cellphone voicemail. He’s identified himself as a “bank
robber/insurgent artist” on LinkedIn. <br />
Maybe he could write a book. Or make a movie out of this. <br />
But catch up with Gibbons today and he doesn’t seem like an artist poised to make a comeback. <br />
Since
his release, he’s married Deb Meehan, also a filmmaker who currently
teaches at Pratt University and who he’s known for decades. There’s
visible friction between them, as she works to get him sober and keep
him out of jail, and he drinks, confesses to crimes, and recounts his
criminal past to reporters. <br />
Gibbons was charged in the
Providence robbery in July, pleaded not guilty, and posted a $50,000
bond, a Rhode Island court spokesperson said. <br />
He shares a
Greenwich Village apartment with Meehan, not far from a liquor depot
where he buys boxed and canned wine. He carried a tote bag to fill on a
recent afternoon trip to the store, and paid for the wine with what he
said was his wife’s credit card, instead of pocketing it like he
might’ve done years ago. <br />
Even drunk and down on his
luck, he transitions seamlessly in conversation from tales of his bank
robberies to critiques of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. <br />
And he still flirts with crime as material. <br />
“I’m
just out and about, practicing my trade,” he said in a recent email,
attaching a photo of himself inside a Chase bank, holding up a deposit
slip. “Robbery—large bills only,” was scribbled on it. <br />
He signed the email: “Joey Banks.” <br />
But
drunk or sober, Gibbons’ eyes light up when he talks about the Gardner
Museum. Like the writers who sat with him in February, he saw
opportunity in his possible involvement in the famous heist. Not for
cutting a deal with the U.S. attorney for a reduced sentence in his
Providence bank-robbing case. Not for finally solving the decades-old
mystery. But for an autobiographical fiction film. For rekindling the
myth of Joe Gibbons. <br />
“It was just better than gold,” he said, recounting his February confession. <br />
Gibbons
took a trip to the Gardner Museum with his wife after the interview,
and playfully posed in front of the frame of the missing Rembrandt. His
lawyer later told him he has a “dangerous sense of play,” Gibbons said.
“I asked him if he knew someone looking for a Vermeer at cut-rate
prices.<br />
“I would like to reconstruct it,” Gibbons said of
the heist. “I would re-enact it with the police uniforms. I don’t know
how far I could carry it.” <br />
It wouldn’t be the first time Gibbons donned a police uniform for one of his films. In a scene from <i>Confessions of a Sociopath</i>, a camera pans up to reveal a mustachioed Gibbons in full police regalia. <br />
In a sketch released by police after the Gardner heist, one of the suspects sports a similar mustache and look.<br />
Think
about his criminal past, his films, his art theft, and an audience
might see Gibbons in that sketch. They might believe for a second he
could’ve been there, perhaps even with a video camera in hand, the night
$500 million of art vanished. <br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Netflix has a four-part series on the Gardner Art Heist slated for release later in 2020. Barnicle TV New York is the alleged TV Production company, now in post-production.</span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /></span>
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The main story-line in the series reportedly follows an attempt in Ireland by Martin “The Viper” Foley, a former associate of gangster and notorious art thief Martin Cahill, to cut a deal with an Irish Republican named Tom “Slab” Murphy, said to have at one time been a Chief of Staff in the Provisional IRA. </span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Turbo Paul Hendry was working with Murphy on a similar deal decades ago, going so far as to meet with FBI special agent Mike Wilson at the American embassy in London, about getting the blessing of authorities in the U.S. to move forward on a recovery. </span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">But when FBI Agent Mike Wilson ran it up the flag pole with the FBI Boston field office, said to be responsible for the stolen Gardner art recovery effort, Hendry was told no deals.</span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Two London based fixtures in the art recovery world, at least in the media, Charles Hill and Dick Ellis figure prominently in the Netflix series. Both were high ranking
detectives in Scotland Yard’s art squad who have worked in the world of stolen art recovery as private investigators for decades. The two are not partners, however, and have not always seen eye-to-eye on important matters related to a recovery. Hill, for instance has stated his belief that one person now controls the art and dismissed Ellis’ contention that control of the art was spread out among many parties as “speculation.” </span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Some familiar faces to U.S. audiences in the world of art recovery in general and the Gardner Heist in particular are not slated to appear in the series.
Robert Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s art crime team, and author of Priceless about his work recovering stolen art working undercover is not interviewed for the series. </span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Neither is Arthur Brand, who has been involved with the recovery effort of Gardner art in Ireland, the past few years, and whose criticisms of the Gardner museum’s efforts made headlines in Boston last year. </span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Reportedly Brand, as well as Turbo Paul Hendry, another critic of the Gardner heist investigation, were blackballed by Hill and Ellis along with the Gardner Museum security director Anthony Amore, all of whom refused to participate if Brand and Hendry were included in the Netflix four-part series. </span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Amore, who has steadfastly insisted for over a decade that there is absolutely no evidence that the paintings are in Ireland, is under contract to write a book, which was due for release to coincide with the 30 yrs Gardner Heist anniversary, delayed now until the Fall, about Rose Dugdale, a volunteer member of the Provisional I.R.A. who stole nineteen old masterworks by Gainsborough, Rubens, Vermeer and Goya from Russborough House in County Wicklow Ireland in 1974. </span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">But aside from media spectacles like five hour lunches with a convicted(later got off on a tech) double Child Murderer, Myles Connor, who Amore insists is “the greatest art thief in history,” encourages Myles Connor, in his role as an actual participant in the art recovery effort and not just an unofficial surrogate for the FBI’s latest spin. </span><br />
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">We all think we know how this series ends, but we can all hope for a surprise and happy ending.</span><br />
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-size: large;">Spoiler Alert: Not a single stolen Gardner artwork has been recovered, not one, zero, zitch, so like many before them, the Netflix four-part series on the Gardner Art Heist is a story without an ending, without the vital "Pay-off" for the viewer. </span></span>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-42487828671116601132020-03-18T20:40:00.000+00:002020-03-22T13:54:00.515+00:00Stolen Art Watch, Casey Sherman Destroys Gardner Art Heist Myth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s now been thirty years since
two thieves dressed as police officers stole 13 artworks worth $500 million
from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990 and we are still no
closer to solving this enduring mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But there’s always a story within
the story and that is certainly the case with the Gardner heist which has more
layers than a Russian nesting doll.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The investigation gets curiouser
and curiouser with a cast of characters that appears to have jumped off the
screen from a Guy Ritchie film. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First, there's "Turbo"
Paul Hendry, a former art thief turned sleuth living in England who has been
following the case since it broke three decades ago when Vermeer’s “The
Concert” and Rembrandt’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee” vanished
into thin air. Hendry is a popular voice in the Gardner Heist community, having
been featured in the 2005 documentary Stolen.</span></span><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> He had a bone to pick with me when I gave celebrated Dutch art investigator </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/brand_arthur" role="link">@brand_arthur</a></span></div>
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> sole credit for a proposal to offer individual rewards for the missing pieces in my </span><br />
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<span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-focusable="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/bostonherald" role="link">@bostonherald</a></span></div>
<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> column. He's right</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">... Turbo Paul</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> came up with the original idea years ago. Nevertheless, he shared my article on social media</span><span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> He's been working this case like
a dog with a bone for years and has been a vocal critic of Anthony Amore, the
museum's longtime director of security.</span></span><br />
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This criticism reportedly prompted
an angry phone call from *******, . Hendry alleges that ******* threatened to “destroy” him if he
didn’t remove more than 30 tweets from his Twitter profile “Art Hostage”
criticizing Amore’s lack of results.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is the museum security director
using a proxy to crush any dissent of his investigation? I asked that question to ****** himself by phone. He calls Hendry’s accusations
“ridiculous”. I also reached out to the museum for comment. “The allegations
that the Gardner Museum or Mr. Amore are encouraging or condoning any
intimidation or pressure efforts by ***** toward the recipient are
categorically false," said Griff McNerney, Museum Communications Manager. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The museum’s cocksure declaration was curious as no one at the institution ever
even asked to speak to the alleged victim in this case. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If this is the way the
investigation into the stolen artwork is being conducted also, it’s no wonder
they haven’t recovered anything in thirty years.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is this the image the Gardner
Museum wishes to project to the world?</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If thuggery and intimidation are
tactics being used to quash criticism of the Gardner investigation, museum
director Peggy Fogelman should step in and make changes immediately. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First, it’s time to fire security director
Anthony Amore who has been leading the museum’s investigation for the past 15
years. He’s never recovered a piece of stolen art in his life. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine if Bill
Belichick had never won a playoff game in 15 years? He’d have been out of a job
a long time ago.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead of chasing leads, Amore
spends more time on social media on any given work day than Perez Hilton. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He’s also used his position to
launch a disastrous run for Massachusetts Secretary of State and has published
four books about stolen art including two coloring books. It seems that the
only person that has profited from the art heist, outside of the thieves, is
Anthony Amore.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Arthur Brand, dubbed “The Indiana
Jones of the Art World”, has taken to social media calling for Amore to “move
over” and let more seasoned investigators take the lead on recovering the
stolen art. Brand made headlines last year for finding and returning a $68
million Picasso that was stolen twenty years ago from a luxury yacht in the
French Riviera. Amore’s dismissed Brand, telling me during an online
conversation, </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We have no comment on some guy’s (bleeping) twitter.” This
institutional arrogance is one of the many reasons that not one stolen art work
has been recovered on Amore’s watch.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s like Inspector Clouseau thumbing
his nose at Hercule Poirot. </span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is Anthony Amore the person we want
leading the charge to return 13 artworks to its rightful place here in Boston
as we mark the 30th anniversary of the notorious heist? I think not.</span></span></div>
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<span class="3oh-"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Casey Sherman is a New York Times
bestselling author of 11 books including the upcoming Hunting Whitey: The
Inside Story of the Capture and Killing of America's Most Wanted Mob Boss.
Follow him on Twitter @caseysherman123</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>How the Gardner Museum’s security head befriended ‘the greatest art thief that ever lived</b></span>’<br />
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<span class="html-render">Anthony Amore is not having it.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“Who in the world forgets they were involved in a Rembrandt theft?” he asks. “Who forgets that?”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">This isn’t an interrogation, although Amore is directing his question to an art thief. This is lunch between good friends.</span></div>
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head of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Myles
Connor, a man Amore calls “the greatest art thief that ever lived,” have
only just been seated, and already the conversation has turned to art
crime. How could it not? Connor, 77, began stealing from museums before
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1975, when Amore was an 8-year-old Yankees fan growing up in
Providence, Connor was already such an accomplished thief that he
committed one heist — the broad daylight theft of an oval Rembrandt oil
painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — to use as a bargaining
chip for a reduced sentence in connection with another, earlier theft
from the Woolworth Estate in Monmouth, Maine (which included five Wyeth
paintings: two by N.C., three by Andrew). </span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Connor’s
rap sheet dates back to 1966. He had evaded capture for robbing the
Forbes House Museum, in his hometown of Milton, until a shootout with
police on a Marlborough Street rooftop left him nearly dead from four
gunshot wounds. Connor shot and almost killed a State Police officer in
the run-up to that melee, earning an attempted murder charge on top of
the one for art theft. He served six years — his first prison term — at
MCI-Walpole.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">His
memory isn’t great these days, but Connor remembers that particular
episode with sparkling clarity: the news trucks broadcasting live from
the street below, the Boston Fire Department captain whose intervention
on the rooftop he says saved his life.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">But
this Rembrandt business that Amore is talking about? Connor honestly
can’t recall. That’s because the Rembrandt in question is yet another,
this one taken from a private home in Cohasset during the summer of
1975. It so happens that Connor, following the MFA heist earlier that
spring, was living on the lam that summer. In Cohasset.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“You were involved in that,” Amore says.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“I
was?” Connor asks, letting loose a laugh so mighty it shakes his entire
body, as well as the table. Flatware jumps. Ice cubes clink in water
goblets.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Connor has no memory of it, but he is tickled to think so.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render"><b>With friends like these</b></span></div>
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<span class="html-render">In
the annals of confounding bromances — think of the Old West lawman
Wyatt Earp’s deep friendship with the gun-slinging outlaw Doc Holliday —
the genuine affection between Anthony Amore and Myles Connor has to be
right up there.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">The
men’s chosen vocations would seem to rule out an easy bonhomie. Amore
leads the investigation into the world’s greatest unsolved art heist, a
mystery entering its 30th year with the heist’s March 18 anniversary. </span></div>
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<span class="html-render">The
broad strokes of that dead-of-night crime are by now well known: Two
men wearing glue-on mustaches and police uniforms bluffed their way into
the old Palace Road entrance of the Gardner Museum, handcuffed the two
on-duty security guards to pipes in the basement, and vanished with 13
works of art into the predawn dark after St. Patrick’s Day.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Their
haul included three works by Rembrandt and Vermeer’s “The Concert.”
Today, the stolen works’ value is estimated to exceed, collectively, $1
billion. In the three decades since the heist, there has not been a
single arrest, not one piece of the lost art recovered.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">If
the Gardner case is both a bane and what drives Amore, his friend
Connor says the whole thing was his idea. “I had intended to be involved
in the theft, but I got nailed by the feds.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">When
the thieves hit the Gardner Museum, Connor was locked up in a federal
prison in Chicago. Some time later, he was transferred to a facility in
Lompoc, Calif. A visitor there told Connor that he and an accomplice had
robbed the Gardner to get him out of prison. That man was the late
David Houghton. He told Connor that his accomplice in the Gardner heist
was Bobby Donati (like Houghton, Donati died the year after the heist in
1991). It was Donati, Connor says, who helped him rob the Woolworth
Estate, in 1973. </span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Connor
also says that he and Donati cased the Gardner Museum together, in
1975. The pair pointed out would-be souvenirs. For Donati, the bronze
eagle finial perched atop a Napoleonic regimental banner. For Connor, a
Shang Dynasty ritual bronze vessel, or Gu, from the 12th century, B.C.
Both items were among the pieces stolen. Connor believes the Gu was
taken for him, and he’s pretty certain that Donati ended up with that
finial. </span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“The
only real reason that I know that they did it,” Connor says, “was
because David Houghton came all the way from Logan to Lompoc,
California, and told me.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Amore
doesn’t confirm or deny that Donati and Houghton were involved in the
Gardner heist. But he does buy Connor’s account. “I believe Myles that
David Houghton visited him in Lompoc federal prison and told him that he
and Bobby Donati had committed the heist to get him out of jail. I 100
percent believe Myles that that happened.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Amore adds, “I do believe that Myles is the inspiration for the Gardner theft.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render"><b>Knuckleheads</b></span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Amore,
53, is tall, soft-spoken, and dresses in tidy civilian camouflage: navy
blazer, pressed khakis, tie. His taciturn nature lends itself well to
the delicate balance he must strike between granting interviews to press
from all over the world and the imperative never to reveal more than he
can or wants to about the ongoing investigation. Amore can be
infuriatingly adept at scuttling a reporter’s efforts to probe.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Before
taking over the theft investigation, in 2005, Amore had been in only
one other art museum in his life. He says of his previous job, helping
rebuild security at Logan Airport after 9/11, “When your objective was
preventing terrorism, your goal was never to meet the people on the
other side. In this [work at the Gardner], you have to meet the people,
that is the only way to accomplish it.” And by people, Amore means, more
often than not, the so-called bad guys.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Growing
up in a modest Cape house sandwiched between two housing projects,
Amore says, he knew scofflaws to spare. Some were members of his own
family. “I grew up around those sorts of people. I’m comfortable
speaking to them.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“My
inspiration for doing this work was talking to people who actually did
the crimes,” Amore continues. “The first most influential book I read
was ‘Mindhunter,’ by John Douglas. To stop serial killers, talk to
serial killers. That’s how I became friends with art thieves like Al
Monday and Myles Connor, and all these other knuckleheads.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">But
the knucklehead that Amore is genuinely fond of is Connor. “I liked him
from the minute I met him, in 2015,” Amore says. “When I sat down and
started asking him about the Gardner that first day, he told me
everything, and I told him some stuff he didn’t know that frankly
comported with some of his beliefs. And you could see his response to it
was visceral, that he wasn’t playing games with it. And I’ll go to my
grave believing that when he said, ‘I wish you’d get those paintings
back for [Gardner Museum director emeritus] Anne Hawley, she deserves to
have them back,’ he meant it.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">In
many ways, Connor could not be less like his law-abiding pal. He
unfurls his dress shirt to the third button and is wholly at ease
standing out in a crowd. The son of a Milton police sergeant and a
mother who was a Mayflower descendant, he remembers a rough-and-tumble
Irish paternal grandfather, and a more patrician maternal grandfather
who passed on to Connor a passion for Japanese weaponry and suits of
armor. Connor seems to have imbibed and combined both men’s influences.
An appreciation for art coursed through him from his earliest days.
Stealing it would come easy, especially when he felt that an institution
had been indifferent to him, to someone he loved, or to its collection.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Wound
tight as a toy snake in a can, Connor can be explosively uncontainable.
Over a meal with friends, when laughter overtakes him, it’s part of his
considerable charm. One can imagine that same unhinged energy producing
a more terrifying effect.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">At
the old Al’s Spaghetti House in Nantasket Beach, where Connor’s band,
Myles Connor and the Wild Ones, drew sellout crowds in between his
prison stints in the 1960s, Connor was sometimes the target, and
sometimes the instigator, of some legendary dustups. His oldest and most
steadfast friend, Al Dotoli, towered over Connor then as now, and was
caught up in many of them.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“I
remember barroom brawls we used to get into,” Connor says. “All I used
to see was arms and legs. Al was like a big spider monkey nailing these
guys!” He’s hoarse with glee at the memory.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“As
opposed to him,” says Dotoli, who has joined Amore and Connor’s lunch,
“all I saw was a pile, and he was on the bottom of it!”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Dotoli
has spent a long career producing concerts for the likes of James
Cotton, the Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Dionne Warwick, and Frank
Sinatra. He regrets that he wasn’t able to keep his friend — who “could
play Chuck Berry like Chuck Berry” — on the stage. “I managed Myles
through his whole career. And it was always very difficult,” Dotoli
says, referring to Connor’s many arrests. “But the more he got in
trouble, the bigger he was a star. The fans loved it.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render"><b>The outlaw code</b></span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“The
things that matter to me,” Connor says, “are loyalty, ethics, believe
it or not, because it can be argued that I had none, but I do. It's like
the old outlaw code: You keep your word, don't backstab anyone, and try
not to hurt anybody that's innocent.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">But
not all of Connor’s exploits bore the cinematic shimmer of art theft.
“Myles and his coterie of friends do a lot to glamorize him,” says
Ulrich Boser, author of the book “The Gardner Heist.” “This is a
criminal.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">To
be fair, it’s not exactly hard to do. The once flame-haired rock star
is also a member of Mensa, the high IQ society. Upon his release — he
calls it “graduation” — from Walpole, in 1972, Connor says that his
near-perfect SAT scores had won him a spot in Harvard’s incoming class.
He chose opening for Roy Orbison and Sha Na Na over a more distant dream
of medical school.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">But then, again and again, Connor chose crime.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“He
is unrepentant, in my opinion,” Boser says. “Look at what he has
actually done: shooting a police officer, knowing enough about a
gruesome [double] murder to lead police to [the women’s] grave. And
then, when I met him, he just told a number of stories that alone were
quite disturbing.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">What
of Connor’s friendship with Amore? “I do not believe that this
undermines Anthony’s work or his credibility,” Boser says. “Is Anthony
the best case, the best hope for bringing these paintings home? Yes. But
I would add an addendum. Someone somewhere knows where these are, and
that someone almost certainly has a connection to someone who has done
some unsavory things. It makes sense to me that Anthony is reaching out
and having conversations with people like that.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">No
one seems more aware of the optics of this friendship than Connor
himself. “Well, from my viewpoint, I’m very fortunate to have a friend
like Anthony, because of his position and situation, and my reputation,”
he says. “I’m aware that he must catch hell from people in his
profession that say, ‘What the hell are you hanging around with this guy
for?’ ”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">It’s
true. Amore does. And he’s considered this question, too. “Yeah, you
know, I do stop and say my whole life is about returning stolen art.
Much of Myles’s was taking it. But pragmatically, too, you can’t learn
to be a good art theft recovery person or a security person without
speaking to the experts in taking them.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Outlaw
code or no, Amore and Connor share more than a fascination with stolen
art. They go to concerts together — Bruce Springsteen, Kevin Hart — and
they often share a meal. They speak by phone several times a week and
leave each other jokey voice mails. Just like friends do.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">When
Connor underwent triple bypass surgery last November, Amore was a
frequent visitor at his bedside. He recalls that Connor had asked him to
bring two things: a book about samurai swords — Connor is an aficionado
and a collector — and soy sauce. Another visitor had brought Connor
sushi, his favorite. Owing to his open-heart surgery, however, she
skimped on the high-sodium condiment.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“He
said, ‘Yeah, can you bring me some Kikkoman soy sauce?’ ” Amore says.
“And I forget what holiday it was, but nothing was open. So I’m driving
around, and I see a 7-Eleven. Believe it or not, they had soy sauce, and
I bring it to him. I go, ‘Hey, look what I got. I brought you the soy
sauce!’ He goes, ‘This is La Choy. It’s not Kikkoman.’ He doesn’t want
it! And he’s like, ‘It doesn’t matter. I ate the sushi anyway.’ ”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">When Amore tells this story, he has to raise his voice a little to be heard, because Connor has unleashed that laugh again.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Amore
pauses for a moment, and says, “God, I wish Myles was the thief. I
think to myself, I wish it had been him, because we’d have our stuff
back. You know, it’s just, the one place he didn’t rob is the one place
that hasn’t gotten its stuff back.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">But
surely Connor, who knew the men he says robbed the Gardner, must have
some insight into what they would have done with the art.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“I’m not sure,” Connor says. “I know Bobby had some connections in New York with organized crime.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Connor
recalls a New York trip with Donati “to meet a guy.” The man in
question claimed to run a lucrative side hustle, Connor says, fencing
stolen art to wealthy buyers overseas.</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“And
I said, ‘How do you get these paintings out of the country?’ And you
know, I’ve always known you can’t roll up an oil painting because you
damage it. But he claimed that he could, and he had a couple of big
empty cardboard rolls. And he said, ‘I’d just put them in these things,
and then send them to Europe.’</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">“You
have people with billions of dollars,” Connor continues. “They have 20
Rolls Royces, a couple lions, a couple hippos. It stands to reason that
they have their own art collections.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Fanciful,
Amore says. But unlikely. Asked where he thinks the art is, Amore says,
“In typical art theft scenarios, we know that stolen art doesn’t travel
far. But then, nothing about the Gardner heist is typical, which is why
I will continue to investigate every single lead.”</span></div>
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<span class="html-render">Dotoli
adds a note of hope. “If the fat lady is going to sing at all on the
Gardner thing, these two will do it. There’s no other way it’s going to
happen. This will be the team.”</span></div>
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Like
Rembrandt’s stolen seascape, there is a storm brewing over the
direction of the decades-old investigation to recover masterpieces
missing from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.<br />
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The first shot across the bow was fired by celebrated Dutch art
detective Arthur Brand who took to Twitter last week to call out
investigators while making a direct plea to the thieves who may still be
in possession of some of the 13 artworks stolen from Gardner Museum in
March 1990.<br />
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“Still working on the Isabella Stewart Gardner theft,” Brand wrote.
“And don’t believe those who say you can only deal with them. You can
always talk with me. The FBI and the museum and their allies are not
going to solve this case after 30 years. Move over …”<br />
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Brand, dubbed “The Indiana Jones of the Art World,” made
international headlines last year for finding and returning a $28
million Picasso painting that was stolen 20 years ago from a luxury
yacht in the French Riviera.<br />
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Speaking to Brand by phone in Europe, he told me that he fired off the tweet in frustration and has since deleted the message.<br />
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Although he praises the FBI and the museum for doing everything they
can to recover the stolen works, which include Vermeer’s “The Concert”
and Rembrandt’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee,” he believes
that investigators are sending the wrong message to anyone with
knowledge of the notorious heist.<br />
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According to the museum’s website, a $10 million reward is still
being offered for information leading to the recovery of all 13 works in
good condition.<br />
<br />
“But what if thieves only have two or three of the stolen art works?”
Brand asks. “They are being dissuaded from coming forward because they
don’t have the entire collection. The museum is giving them an
all-or-nothing proposition.”<br />
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The art detective is calling on the museum to provide separate
rewards for the individual art pieces. Brand believes this change in
strategy could break the case.<br />
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“I’m also concerned about how the museum defines the “good condition”
of the art, that’s a very arbitrary statement,” Brand says. “I know how
the criminal mind works and language like that sends a big red flag to
the thieves.”<br />
<br />
The FBI won’t comment on the art detective’s theory but when I
reached out to Anthony Amore, the museum’s director of security, during
an online conversation, he told me; “We have no comment on some guy’s
(bleeping) twitter.”<br />
<br />
That no comment speaks volumes and I can understand his frustration.
Amore’s been working on the case since 2005, chasing leads around the
globe and he’s found nothing.<br />
Now he’s got one of the world’s leading art detectives breathing down his neck and demanding results.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">But to call Arthur Brand “some guy” speaks to Amore’s institutional arrogance</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As we approach the 30th anniversary of the heist this year, the
museum would be better served if it brings in new investigators with
fresh ideas and new perspectives.</span><br />
<br />
Brand tells me that he’s spoken with sources in direct contact with
the IRA. They have convinced him some of the missing paintings are
stashed away in Ireland.<br />
<br />
This theory has been dismissed by Amore.<br />
<br />
“He (Amore) calls me “some guy,” but I have recovered six stolen art
pieces in the past year alone, and what has he found?” Brand says. “I
always place myself in the minds of the thieves. I have a track record
of success while after nearly 30 years; the museum is still sitting on
nothing.”<br />
<br />
<em>Casey Sherman is a New York Times best-selling author of 11
books. His latest is the upcoming “Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of
the Capture and Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss.” Follow him
on Twitter @caseysherman123.</em>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-87214046960663492202020-01-01T19:32:00.000+00:002020-01-01T19:32:28.273+00:00Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Museum & FBI Appoints Chris Marinello Official, Exclusive, Pro Bono Intermediary To Pay Criminals Reward<br />
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According to Chris Marinello of Art Recovery International, he has been appointed the Official Pro Bono Intermediary on the Gardner case who will pay the Gardner heist reward to anyone who steps forward, including criminals.<br />
This goes against everything Chris Marinello says he stand for in regards morals and ethics in stolen art recoveries.<br />
Are we to believe Chirs Marinello has had a change of heart, gone off the reservation, along with the Gardner Museum and FBI?<br />
Do they want us to believe Chris Marinello will pay out the Gardner heist reward without any scrutiny, if so, then why not issue a Gardner Art Reward Price List to give further encouragement.<br />
Perhaps a lesser valued stolen Gardner artwork can be used as a test balloon. <br />
<br />
Chris Marinello wrote this on his website:<br />
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<i>2020 marks a rotten anniversary for any art-lover: thirty years since
thieves bolted off with 13 precious artworks from the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Two robbers dressed to
impersonate police officers carried out this infamous heist, considered
to be the biggest unsolved art theft in world history. </i><br />
<i>Since that night
in 1990, quite a few real police officers have joined the international
hunt for the 13 artworks, not to mention lawyers, art experts, and
lately even podcasters. </i><br />
<i>Valued at over $600 million (although valueless
in the marketplace as stolen objects) the search for masterworks by the
likes of Vermeer, Manet, Rembrandt, and Degas stays alive and relevant
thanks to current museum security director Anthony Amore, whose museum
is offering the largest reward ever offered by a private institution —
$10 million for information leading to the art's recovery. </i><br />
<br />
<i>What is
keeping someone from turning in the art and collecting a cool $10
million? Perhaps mistrust of the FBI’s and local prosecutors’ promise
that no one will be prosecuted for the crime. </i><br />
<br />
<i>That’s why Art Recovery
International’s founder and lawyer Christopher A. Marinello has, with
the consent of law enforcement, offered to serve as a pro-bono
intermediary between the possessors and the museum. ARI will happily
exchange the reward and artwork through attorney’s escrow. </i><br />
<br />
<i>In this way,
those collecting the reward will never have to deal directly with museum
security or law enforcement. </i><br />
<br />
<i>Marinello’s message to the possessors is
simple: “Thirty years is enough; you are not going to get a better deal
than the one on the table. Return the artwork and pocket the $10 million
before someone else goes around you and collects it for themselves”. </i><br />
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Chris Marinello, Anthony Amore and the FBI are sending mixed messages, two faces of the same coin? <i><br /></i>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-52012414418145970082019-12-16T20:55:00.003+00:002019-12-16T20:55:45.025+00:00Stolen Art Watch, Anthony Amore, Behind the Cloak of the Rose Dugdale Vermeer book, Negociates With Irish Republicans For Gardner Art Recovery <br />
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Anthony Amore, for the last two years has been writing a book about Rose
Dugdale and the IRA Vermeer theft to give himself cover in finally
trying to flush out any Irish Republican influence in recovering the
Gardner art.<br />
<br />
Anthony has tried, in vain thus far, to convince people of the current
reward offer and immunity offer being collectable, therefore
negociations are at an impass.<br />
<br />
The suggestion of the Gardner Art Reward Price List would go some way to
establish the sincerity of the Gardner Museum and be an olive branch to
those would could help recover some Gardner art.<br />
<br />
Those who hold or control some of the Gardner art fear the clenched fist
of the FBI will come crashing down on their houses with God's own
thunder if they step forward.<br />
<br />
A test balloon of a lesser valued Gardner artwork being handed back
would also give confidence to follow through with the future recoveries
of the Vermeer and Rembrandts.<br />
<br />
Much more will be revealed in the months ahead as we move towards the
thirty years since the Gardner Art Heist March 1990- March 2020.<br />
<br />
Whomever holds any Gardner art must be terrified of stepping forward, so
reassurances should be given by the FBI and Gardner Museum, such as a
Gardner Art Reward Price List, to cover the distinct possibility the
thirteen Gardner artworks are not held together anymore.<br />
<br />
Sadly, the assurances of Anthony Amore have rung hollow to those who can facilitate the recovery of some Gardner Art.<br />
<br />
They think Anthony Amore is conducting "The Art of The Con" to quote the title of Anthony Amore's last book.<br />
<br />
Lets Bring The Gardner Art Home, Change.org Petition:<br />
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<a href="https://www.change.org/p/let-s-bring-home-the-stolen-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-art-a-new-approach?recruiter=886928978&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition">https://www.change.org/p/let-s-bring-home-the-stolen-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-art-a-new-approach?recruiter=886928978&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition</a>Art Hostage http://www.blogger.com/profile/04025483327345956228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34874116.post-39507066576852371092019-11-28T16:55:00.000+00:002019-12-01T20:21:30.601+00:00Stolen Art Watch, Tiny Reward On Dresden Green Vault Heist, Should Be $10 Million Like Gardner Heist, Dresden "White" Worth More Than Reward In Underworld Alone, Updated <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reward offered for information on German treasure robbery</h1>
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are offering a 500,000-euro
($550,000) reward for information leading to the recovery of 18th
century jewels snatched from a unique collection in Dresden or the
arrest of the thieves.<br />
A large diamond brooch, a diamond epaulette and other treasures were taken from Dresden’s Green Vault early Monday morning.<br />
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Police and prosecutors said in a joint statement Thursday that “we will leave no stone unturned to solve this case.”<br />
A 40-member investigating commission is working on the robbery.<br />
The Green Vault is one of the world’s oldest museums. It
was established in 1723 and contains the treasury of Augustus the Strong
of Saxony, comprising around 4,000 objects of gold, precious stones and
other materials.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Art Hostage Comments:</b></span><br />
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The tiny reward offered makes authorities look stupid.<br />
<br />
First, the billion dollar value, although perhaps too high, means the reward offered is 0.05% and also the 49 ct "Dresden White" diamond is worth more in the Underworld than the total reward offered.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, the cushion shape of the "Dresden White" makes it easier to re-cut and a reduction from 49ct to say, 35ct would disguise it enough for resale on the legitimate market for much, much more than the $550,000 reward offered for the whole stolen haul, seventeen pieces.<br />
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<i>The Dresden White is by far the most valuable single item stolen. <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">Augustus</span> the Strong, the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">18th century</span> Prince-Elector of Saxony who founded the Green Vault, is said to have been so enraptured by the diamond he paid $1m for it — a fabulous sum at the time.</i> <br />
<br />
<i>When a huge deep blue diamond known as the French Blue was stolen from
the French government following King Louis XVI's attempt to flee the
country during the French Revolution, it was recut from 67.125 carats to
45.52 carats, which in turn became known as the Hope Diamond.</i><br />
<br />
It would have been far better to offer a "Substantial" reward leaving the actual figure as a matter of debate and a way to attract leads.<br />
<br />
If, as suspected, the Remmo family are involved, if not the actual heist, then certainly the following handling of the Dresden Green Vault haul, then offering such a tiny reward might encourage the current handlers to break up and sell the whole haul on the black market, destroying the jewels forever.<br />
<br />
Much better to replicate the Gardner Museum and offer a $10 million reward, thereby making the Dresden Green Vault haul worth much more as it is, rather than broken apart.<br />
<br />
By offering $550,000 reward for all seventeen Dresden Green Vault pieces, authorities have given Underworld figures, such as the Remmo family a price benchmark, whereby if they offer $3-5 million for the total Dresden Green Vault haul, they will be the buyers.<br />
<br />
An Underworld offer of $1 million for the "Dresden White" alone would secure it for Underworld figures such as the Remmo family. <br />
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To be continued..............................................<br />
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Burglars hit East German secret police museum in Berlin</h1>
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Berlin (AFP) – Burglars broke into Berlin’s Stasi Museum, which
showcases items of East Germany’s hated secret police, making off with
collectible medals and gold jewellery, authorities said Sunday, days
after a spectacular diamond heist in Dresden.<br />
The robbers broke in through a window on the first floor, “smashed
several showcases, and stole medals and jewellery”, said police in a
statement.<br />
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They made off with their spoils undetected.<br />
The time of the raid was unclear but a museum employee found showcases smashed in the exhibition rooms on Sunday morning.<br />
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Museum director Joerg Drieselmann told the Tagesspiegel daily that
among the medals taken were a gold Patriotic order of Merit, an Order of
Karl Marx — the highest honour awarded in the former communist East
Germany and an Order of Lenin.<br />
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Stolen jewellery included rings and a watch, he said.<br />
The items were confiscated by the Stasi from private individuals.<br />
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After the collapse of the communist regime, many items were returned
to their owners. But some which remained unclaimed were on loan to the
Stasi Museum as part of its exhibition.<br />
“These are not huge treasures. But we are a history museum and don’t
expect people to break in,” the museum chief was quoted as saying.<br />
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The latest robbery came hot on the heels of a brazen heist at the Green Vault museum in Dresden’s Royal Palace on November 25.<br />
Having sparked a partial power cut before breaking in through a
window, the thieves stole priceless 18th-century diamond jewellery —
including a famous 49-carat Dresden white — from the collection of the
Saxon ruler August the Strong.<br />
Police are still hunting four suspects, and have offered half a
million euros ($550,000) as a reward for information leading to an
arrest or recovery of the stolen goods.<br />
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Investigators are also in contact with colleagues in Berlin to
explore possible connections to a similar heist in the capital two years
ago.<br />
In 2017, a 100-kilogramme (220-pound), 24-karat giant gold coin was stolen from Berlin’s Bode Museum.<br />
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Four men with links to a notorious Berlin gang were later arrested and put on trial.<br />
The coin has never been recovered, and fears are growing that the Dresden treasures will also remain lost forever.<br />
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Shaken by the loss, Germany’s culture minister Monika Gruetters this week called for a national conference on museum security.<br />
“We need to look at how museums can protect their objects from such
brutal activities while still being accessible to the public in the
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Criminals large families: Where in Germany what are the Clans have to Say</h1>
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With the deportation of a leading Bremer Clan member in the Lebanon
this week, the topic of criminals, puts families back into focus. How is
the situation in the whole of Germany – and in which regions the
phenomenon of the Clan, it is common to crime? An Overview of some of
these large families and police actions against members of such Clans
are:<br />
When talking about Clan-crime in Germany, then two of the
most brazen acts quickly get out of this and the last year has been
stolen in the sense: As this may, from a Berlin primary school is a work
of art, the state office of criminal investigation quickly a well-known
large family in the suspicion that the “family R”, such as the
“Berliner Morgenpost” reported. The stolen “gold nest” should be about
80,000 euros in value. Even more rewarding is the theft of a 100-Kilo
gold coin from the Bode-Museum in Berlin-Mitte in March 2017. The
material value of the “Big Maple Leaf” will then have 3.75 million
euros. Where the coin is today, don’t know the police. Melted down and
made into money, it is suspected. Money that you can invest prima – in
real estate, for example.<br />
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However, such spectacular cases are not the Bulk of the illegal
transactions of criminals, members of large families – usually consist,
according to investigators from the fraud, extortion, burglaries,
thefts, drug trafficking and Prostitution.<br />
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night-and-fog action</h3>
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Leading the Miri-Clan-member from Bremen deported</h3>
dpa police actions against criminal families<br />
With illegal activities, it Makes such large families in many regions
of Germany, and wealth. The state has sent to break this Power, and
recently had several calls to the deportation of one of the leading
heads of a Lebanese clan from Bremen in the middle of the week belonged
to. The Person had been “obliged to leave the country,” said a
spokeswoman for the Bremen Department of interior on Thursday. From
media reports, that this “obligation to leave” already existed for a
good 13 years.<br />
another spectacular use, there was over a year ago
in Berlin. There were seized at a large-scale action real estate is in
the million value. This, too, is regarded as a significant blow to the
Clan-crime in Germany.<br />
But what the large families, and in which
areas of Germany family members are criminal activities? A spokeswoman
for the Federal criminal police office on star-demand in Berlin, North
Rhine-Westphalia and Bremen, as the focus of the Clan-crime – a General
Overview for the whole of Germany, the authority has not. As with all
police powers, the Clan-crime countries thing. And the number of people
counted on these networks, are usually appraised values.<br />
Berlin: the capital of The Clans in Germany<br />
The German capital is regarded in this country as the main location for
criminals from large families. There, according to media reports, up to
20 such Clans. Particularly well known is the <strong> Abou-Chakers </strong>
– also because of the friendship and subsequent enmity between the
Rapper Bushido and Clan-chief Arafat Abou-Chaker, against the
investigators in the past few years, more than 30 methods have hard are.<br />
The Abou-Chakers come originally from Lebanon and immigrated in the 80s
to Germany. You are in Berlin, the most famous of the Clan – the
largest but they are not.<br />
star talk<br />
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separation of Arafat Abou-Chaker</h3>
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Bushido: “If anything happens to me, is taken care of for my family”</h3>
Bigger the <strong> Rammo-Clan </strong>
is supposed to be, sometimes Remmo-Clan written – with an estimated 500
members, about twice as large as the Abou-Chakers. Known to the family
Union, and also by his involvement in the Rapper scene. Bushido makes
according to his own statement in the star after his break with Arafat
Abou-Chaker now with a family member of Ashraf Rammo shops.<br />
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But in the music Business, including the Management of artists belongs
to, does not appear to be part of the business of members of this
family: A LKA-report listed in the past year 1146 of the operations on,
in which members of the family Rammo were considered as suspects.<br />
In the summer of 2018, there was the already mentioned use in Berlin:
investigators seized 77 real estate this large family of more than nine
million euros: money laundering is suspected. According to the LKA, the
Clan is suspected of criminal profits in the amount of 28 million euros
scammed. Money that should be invested in the family in those
properties.<br />
And finally, three members of the Clan are just
currently due to the downturn in the Bode-Museum in front of the court,
in which those gigantic gold coin was stolen. According to current
planning, is expected to fall according to a court spokeswoman at the
end of September a judgment.<br />
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separation of Arafat Abou-Chaker</h3>
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Bushido and his wife Anna-Maria from the pack: “We will not allow ourselves to be more intimidating”</h3>
the Rammo family immigrated in the 80s, during the Lebanese civil war,
to Germany. They were, so read it again and again in the media,
stateless, and were originally from the area of today’s Southeast
Turkey. Arrived in Germany, they were safe from war and violence, but at
the time, initially no permission to work in the Federal Republic of
Germany, and also the children were not subject to in the new home
first, the school duty. Both circumstances are considered to be one of
the reasons that a number of the former immigrants from Lebanon entry
into the criminal Milieu and the emergence of a criminal parallel
society in Germany.<br />
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A further in Berlin, well-known Clan Name in Berlin, the <strong> Miris </strong>
– a in Germany, wide-branched family with loud “welt.de” an estimated
2500 members are. However, the Miris should have their focus in Bremen.<br />
Bremen: home base of the Miri-clan<br />
Bremen <strong> Miri-Clan </strong>
is a family, which immigrated in the 80s, from Lebanon to Germany.
Family members of the Miris is accused of Organised crime in various
areas. But also in the Hanseatic city, the authorities try, the criminal
activities of the clan curb. So it was on Thursday, first through the
“image”newspaper known that one of the leading heads of this criminal
has a big family and chief of the Bremen forbidden Chapters of the
motorcycle club, Mongols MC in the early Morning at 3.40 PM in his at
home. Then, the 46-Year-old was deported to Lebanon, and, accompanied by
elite police officers, there flew out. The action are supposed to have
authorities from Bremen, Berlin, and the Federal government working
together in Secret for months.<br />
North Rhine-Westphalia: Over a Hundred of families and thousands of crimes<br />
North Rhine-with its many Metropolitan areas, the first state to the
presented recently a comprehensive picture of the situation to the
Clan-crime – and with spectacular data was the talk of the made
Westphalia. After the middle of may, the study presented 104 Turkish
goods in the past two years-Arabic immigrant families in the state for
14.225 crimes responsible, especially food as the focus of the clan
crime, followed by Recklinghausen, Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg and other
Ruhr area cities.<br />
Also in the Ruhr area, many of these people
came in the 80s and 90s over Lebanon. And also, you are originally from
the Ottoman Empire, today’s Turkey. Clan name lists the picture of the
situation – the police in Germany is called, for reasons of privacy
protection, generally, no such name, of which there are also all sorts
of spellings. But observers of the scene will know who is meant, if in
the NRW collection abbreviations of the family names are called as “Clan
O”, “E”, “A.”, “K”, “S”, “I”, “F”, “Ta”, “R” or “T”.<br />
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Criminal Clans</h3>
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Scam: Driving in Germany to know thousands without traffic rules?</h3>
As one of the larger clan families , the family <strong> Al-Zein </strong>,
sometimes El is Zein wrote. She has, according to media Compounds
according to Berlin reports, but should be, especially in Essen and
Duisburg widely used. Also the Name <strong> Omeirat </strong> is considered to be a term in the Ruhr area, which was also in Bremen and Berlin-based <strong> Miris </strong> .<br />
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in Total, were assigned to the 104 clan in NRW 6449 suspects in the
investigated period. You have to do it not with “egg thieves or tobacco
smugglers”, said the then Minister of the interior, Herbert Reul (CDU)
at the presentation of the management report. More than a third of the
identified offences were threats, coercion, robbery and dangerous bodily
injury. Among the legal and illegal areas of business in which family
members are active, according to the report, the motor Vehicle trade and
rental, key services, as well as the drugs and red light district. It
is often used to hookah Bars for criminal transactions.<br />
Postmarked by the last name<br />
However, of course, anyone who is wearing one of the infamous last
name, or from one of these large and widely branched families, not a
Clan-Criminal. Also article on the topic back again. The Green Essen
Alderman Ahmad Omeirat, who came as a child from Lebanon to Germany, is
supposed to be a model example for Integration, Sr., But he met with
hostility by his own admission again and again – because he bears the
surname Omeirat.<br />
sources: “Berliner Morgenpost”, “Bild-Zeitung”,
“WAZ”, Ralf Ghadban: “to integrate the Lebanon-refugees yet?”, “Clan
crime management report NRW 2018”, “Welt.de”<br />
topics in this
article with Make family Germany Berlin Bremen Lebanon, LKA North
Rhine-Westphalia police of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bushido Berliner
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