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The Gardner Heist Investigation In The Media (Part VIII)

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Comparing Whitey Bulger/Catherine Greig Crowd Sourcing with Gardner Surveillance Video Campaign One way to illustrate how the FBI did was not making an actual effort to identify the visitor, who was granted unauthorized entry into the Gardner Museum 24 hours before the robbery, through the 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 that succeeded in apprehending 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. At the time, there was and continues to be wide speculation about whether Bulger was involved, somehow profited from the robbery or knew so...