Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they approached the Brink's building, they looked for a signal from the lookout on the roof of a Prince Street building. He previously had arrived in a stolen Ford sedan. After receiving the go-ahead signal, seven members of the gang left the truck and walked through a playground to the Prince Street entrance of Brink's. Using the outside door key they previously had obtained, the men quickly entered and donned the masks." Big Tony Pino and his driver remained outside in the truck, with the motor idling...
...seven robbers made their way through five doors to the second-floor vault, where five Brink's men were busy counting the day's cash. Confronted with seven short-nosed pistols, the Brink's men surrendered without a fight. After tying and gagging them, the gang methodically began to stuff $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders and securities into burlap sacks they carried with them. While they worked, a buzzer went off. O'Keefe removed the adhesive-tape gag from Cashier Thomas B. Lloyd's mouth, asked...
After 20 minutes in the building, the robbers made their getaway, drove to the Roxbury home of Adolph ("Jazz") Maffie, 44, quickly discovered that they had too much money to count in one night. Joseph McGinnis, 52, the eleventh member of the gang, took the pea jackets, caps, false faces and about $100,000 in new and traceable currency away to burn, and the others dispersed (McGinnis, the gang treasurer, had spent the evening in a restaurant, talking to a detective and establishing a foolproof alibi). Two months after the crime, police found the remains of the truck, carefully minced...
While O'Keefe told his story, the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation rounded up Tony Pino and five other members of the gang (two, including O'Keefe, were already in jail, one was dead of natural causes, and the remaining two were still at large). O'Keefe's story was no surprise to the FBI and police. For five years they have been frustratingly familiar with many of the details of the crime, and all but one of the eleven gang members (Fugitive James Ignatius Flaherty, 44, a bartender, burglar and escape artist) have...
After listening to Specs O'Keefe, a Suffolk County grand jury speedily indicted the entire gang on 148 counts. The indictments came just four days before the Massachusetts statute of limitations expired.* Still notably missing, though, was one important item of evidence. Not a penny of the missing millions has been recovered...