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Gardner Museum Heist Blog Table of Contents What’s Behind The Latest Rift between the Gardner Heist Investigation and Arthur Brand Errors and Discrepancies In Last Seen Podcast Complete Report Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 1 Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 2 Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 3 Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 4 Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 5 Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 6 Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 7 Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 8 Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 9 The Gardner Museum Heist’s Basement Crime Scene (Part One) The Gardner Museum Heist’s Basement Crime Scene (Part Two) The Gardner Museum Heist’s Basement Crime Scene (Part Three) The Gardner Museum Heist’s Basement Crime Scene (Part Four) The Gardner Museum Heist’s Basement Crime Scene (Part Five) The Gardner Museu
What’s Behind The Latest Rift between the Gardner Heist Investigation and  Arthur Brand Perhaps because of the upcoming Gardner Heist 30th year anniversary, the New Year started off with a bang in that crawlspace where the Gardner heist investigation’s public relations effort is now stored. (It’s not a cool, dry place.)    Was it really twelve years ago now that Anthony Amore was saying he was “eager to deploy a ‘crowdsourcing’ approach to the crime, and use the Internet to distribute information and haul in data.  ‘I know one thing,” Amore said, ‘I am not going to be able to recover these paintings on my own, in a vacuum, sitting here in an office. I need the collective intelligence of people from around the world.’" That approach seemed to pay off  in 2013. “Anthony Amore told the Boston Heald “it was a tip from a citizen in 2010 who called in with “new information about some matters that we had been looking into” that ultimately led to yesterday’s [March 18, 2013] block
Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 7 1. CONNOR: “Bobby was a typical, Italian crook.” Nobody is a typical Italian crook. 2. “ I wouldn't call him a mobster because mobsters are what you associate with organized crime. He wasn't that kind of a crook.” Bobby Donati was that kind of crook: “ “Revere police Detective Lt. William Gannon said that the body of Robert A. Donati, 50, of Revere, was found in his Cadillac on Savage Street in Revere by an officer on routine patrol about 1:25 a.m. Donati was a reputed associate of Vincent Ferrara, who is awaiting trial in Boston on federal racketeering charges. Donati, meanwhile, was said to be making collections from bookmakers and loansharks on Ferrara's behalf. Originally from East Boston, Donati had a lengthy criminal record involving arson, armed robberies and the theft of securities from the Boston Stock Exchange. Source Boston Globe September 25, 1991. 3. RODOCLICO: “Myles Connor was a rock st