The Gardner Heist Investigation In The Media (Part VII)
"To Do" Calendar of a Theory Feb 26, 2015 Field test it on the road There was a prelude to the widespread coverage of the Gardner Heist 25 th anniversary in late February. Gardner Museum security chief, Anthony Amore along with the FBI’s lead agent in the Gardner Heist investigation, Special Agent Geoff Kelly met with a storied and respected reporter of the Gardner robbery, former Boston Herald reporter and editor Tom Mashberg, now working for the out of town but nationally influential New York Times. “Investigators were anticipating a wave of interest, and possible criticism, on the eve of the robbery’s 25th anniversary,” Mashberg revealed. After “twenty five years of theories,” as the headline read, and virtually nothing else, the investigators put forth their latest, four years in the making according to Mashberg, but with a lineage dating back to 1997, and a cast of wise guys all dead or choosing long stretches of hard time over freedom and the poten...