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Article: Gardner art theft suspect is study in intrigue
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1992
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There was a day last autumn when Brian McDevitt, sitting in the
office of his small loft house in Hollywood Hills, proposed writing a
screenplay about a brazen art theft during which the thieves hid the
stolen treasures deep in a German cave.
Just a few weeks later, McDevitt found himself at the center of an
investigation into the largest art theft in history, when the FBI
summoned him back to his lawyer's Salem office and asked him what he
knew about $200 million in paintings missing from the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
McDevitt's lawyer said yesterday that his client, who was
convicted in a similar, but bungled art robbery in upstate New York
in 1980, knows nothing of the ...
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