Word: heisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the start, the heist has riveted and dumbfounded the art world, with fresh chapters unfolding as if the perps had serialized the tale. Last week came the most tantalizing clues so far in the 1990 theft of $300 million in artwork--including three Rembrandts, five Degas and a Vermeer--from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On Friday the Boston Herald published several black-and-white photographs that purported to show some of the stolen paintings. And the Herald said that in collaboration with ABC News, it had near certain proof that the Rembrandts in the photos were authentic...
...thieves' improbable connoisseurship set off speculation that the heist was a botched assignment ordered up by a wealthy collector. But no leads panned out. Then, in August, Herald reporter Tom Mashberg claimed he had been escorted to a dark warehouse and shown by flashlight Rembrandt's signature on Storm on the Sea of Galilee. The assignation was brokered by Youngworth, who then told ABC's Nightline he could deliver the stolen works in exchange for the museum's $5 million reward and the release of his pal Myles J. Connor Jr., a thief who was in prison for selling cocaine...
...down payment on a reward for promising to produce some of the stolen goods. He will probably try to negotiate down his sentence in exchange for more details. All things considered, that may be a small price to pay for figuring out who pulled off the biggest art heist in American history...
...darkest mysteries of Congress: who was the mastermind behind the biggest heist of the year--the delivery of a $50 billion tax break for tobacco companies? Now a prime suspect has emerged: former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Two Republican Party officials told Time last week that Barbour, now a millionaire tobacco lobbyist, had gone to House Speaker Newt Gingrich and majority leader Trent Lott and persuaded them to slip a giant gift to his clients into the must-pass balanced-budget agreement just minutes before it was inked. For weeks it looked as if the two g.o.p. leaders...
...plane on autopilot doesn't hold up, critics say, citing evidence showing the jet changed course near the last point it was sighted -- an impossibility if the plane was on automatic. TIME's Mark Thompson says the plane's course does not necessarily support the theory of an aircraft heist. "Air Force people are saying the plane's circular motion could have been due to the fact that the plane only had about 90 seconds worth of fuel left. And since the plane has two engines, it's highly unlikely they both would have cut out simultaneously. In other words...