Biggest Heist of all time:500 Million dollar Art heist at Isbella Stewart Gardner museum
On March 18, 1990, 13 masterpieces were stolen from Boston’s Isbella Stewart Gardner museum in USA a theft that became not only the country’s largest property crime but the world’s most lucrative art heist. Among the pieces that went missing were three Rembrandt, sketches by Degas, and a Vermeer that together were valued at over $500 million.
The FBI apparently solved the case-in 2013 they said they had figured out who the thieves were, though they never released the names since the statue of limitations had passed — but authorities never recovered the art works themselves. They believe they have one remaining informant who may be able to help them find the paintings: Robert Gentile, 81, who is currently being charged in Massachusetts for unrelated crimes.
Gentile was sentenced on Tuesday, February 27th, to four and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally selling guns to a convicted murderer. His lawyer claimed the sale was set up as a sting operation by the FBI in order to obtain information regarding the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist. Gentile has repeatedly denied knowing the whereabouts of the paintings, even though a covert FBI recording has him offering an agent at least two of the paintings for $500,000 each. he judge sentenced 81-year-old…
