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Article: Gone, but not forgotten ; Gardner Museum recalls art heist as 19th anniversary nears
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2009
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After two men dressed as Boston police officers conned their way
into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after midnight on March 18,
1990, and stole artwork now valued at $500 million, South Boston
crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger started pressuring people to find
out who did it, according to a longtime associate of the gangster.
It was the largest art heist in world history, and Bulger was
determined to find the thieves and confiscate the stolen
masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas, and Manet, said Patrick
Nee, a former Bulger associate from South Boston.
"Whitey would have been looking to get his hands on the Gardner
Museum paintings for a number of reasons," said Nee, adding that ...