Word: stoles
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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...
...Attorney Kevin J. O’Connor said he was pleased with the outcome of the sentencing. “We believe that the court balanced the severity of this crime with this defendant’s significant cooperation in recovering most of the maps that he stole and imposed a fair sentence,” O’Connor said in a statement...
Smiley’s capture doesn’t end the search for the 13 rare maps that Harvard is missing. Several institutions say they are missing maps with titles identical to the eight that Smiley says he stole from Harvard. And five of Harvard’s 13 missing maps are not among the items Smiley has confessed to stealing...
This Scrutiny is about professors who have gotten into some deep shit. But one of our subjects, Monrad Professor of Economics Martin L. Weitzman, easily justifies our use of naughty language; in April 2005, he allegedly stole $600 worth of manure from a Rockport, Mass. farm, supposedly to use as fertilizer. His August 2005 settlement with the Gloucester district court allowed him to dodge an admission of guilt, but The Crimson reported that Charles L. “Charlie” Lane Sr., the 98-year-old farmer, purportedly caught Weitzman red-handed (brown-handed?) in the middle...
...example, Cordingly argues that Sir Francis Drake almost single-handedly jump-started the rise of British naval supremacy because he was more or less a sneaky pirate bastard who repeatedly stole everything he could from the Spanish armada with tacit British approval...