The Gardner Heist Investigation In The Media (Part VIII)
Comparing Whitey Bulger/Catherine Greig Crowd Sourcing with Gardner Surveillance Video Campaign One way to illustrate how the FBI did was not making a sincere effort to identify the visitor granted unauthorized entry into the Gardner Museum 24 hours before the robbery through the public release of a surveillance video from the museum, is to look at it alongside the “crowd sourcing” effort of a real FBI publicity campaign, the one to apprehend fugitive Boston crime boss, Whitey Bulger. The destinies of the two individuals in both crowd sourcing campaigns, Whitey Bulger and the mystery visitor do overlap. Whitey Bulger was at his peak as a Boston underworld crime figure in Boston when the mystery visitor was allowed inside Gardner Museum for an unauthorized, rule breaking visit in the early morning of March 17, 1990. There was wide speculation about whether Bulger was involved, somehow profited from the robbery or knew something. Many of the same FBI and U.S. Attorney pe...