Veteran organized crime reporter George Anastasia offers a piece in Bigtrial.net on the story that possibly the Philadelphia mob has the stolen art from the famous Gardner Museum theft (see the above FBI.gov photo).
The bottom line is that the Philadelphia
So if mob boss Joe Ligambi or any of his associates had information about the art work stolen from a Boston
That, at least, is the view of Robert Wittman, a retired FBI agent who specialized in art theft and who spent the bulk of his career working out of the FBI’s Philadelphia
“I sat next to the organized crime squad guys,” Wittman said in a telephone interview from his suburban Philadelphia Boston announced last week that it now knew who was behind the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Instead, they hinted at mob connections to both the heist and attempts to move the $500 million in priceless art work that was stolen. The take included a Vermeer, a Manet, three Rembrandt's and five works by Degas.
The FBI announcement included speculation that the art was being “shopped” in the Philadelphia area 10 years ago and that some local mobsters were trying to expedite the sale.
Wittman said he’s “skeptical.”
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
You can read an earlier post on the art theft via the below link:
You can also check former FBI Special Agent Robert Wittman's book Priceless: How I Went Undercover To Rescue The World's Stolen Treasures.
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