
The FBI has made a lot of claims about the Gardner heist in recent years: that the thieves are both dead, that there have been “confirmed sightings” of the stolen art in recent years, and that they believe “with a high degree of confidence that in the years after the theft, the art was transported to Connecticut and the Philadelphia region, and some of the art was taken to Philadelphia, where it was offered for sale by those responsible for the theft. With that same confidence, we have identified the thieves, who are members of a criminal organization with a base in the mid-Atlantic states and New England.” All of that may be true, but the fact remains that no arrests were ever made, none of the art has been recovered by the museum, and no one has ever claimed the reward that now stands at $10 million.
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