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...SMILES YESTERDAY for E. Forbes Smiley III, who was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison and ordered to pay roughly $2 million for pilfering rare maps from schools around the country. The YDN carries a report—Smiley was caught at Yale—as does The Crimson. Harvard is still missing 13 maps, at least five of which Smiley has admitted to stealing...
...federal judge yesterday sentenced map dealer-turned-thief E. Forbes Smiley III—who has admitted to stealing eight maps from Harvard’s Houghton Library—to three-and-a-half years in prison followed by three years of supervised release...
...Smiley was also ordered to pay nearly $2 million in restitution for the 98 maps he stole over a seven-year-period from institutions around the U.S. as well as the British Library...
...today’s sentencing doesn’t close the case of the thief who made national headlines in June 2005, when he was caught carrying seven maps out of Yale’s Beinecke Library. Smiley will also be sentenced in October in Connecticut state court for larceny charges resulting from his thefts at Yale...
...Smiley was a well-known rare maps dealer who built up a business selling his stolen maps to other dealers. These dealers are the ones who will receive the majority of the restitution payment...