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FBI Solves Decades-Old Art Heist, Suspect Had Been Represented By John Kerry
Breitbart ^ | Mar 29, 2015 | howie carr

Posted on 05/23/2018 10:32:29 PM PDT by bitt

dated Mar 29, 2015

BOSTON – The FBI has positively identified the two robbers who in 1990 committed the largest art heist in history, stealing over $500 million worth of masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum here. One of them is a local ex-con who was free only because his lawyer, now Secretary of State John Kerry, was able to get his first-degree murder conviction overturned in 1982.

“We got justice,” Kerry told a reporter in 2009 of his work for the notorious hoodlum, “and I’ll go to my grave proud that we did.”

Multiple law-enforcement sources here have told Breitbart News that the two career criminals who committed the historic crime were Kerry’s client, George Reissfelder, and a local thug named Lenny DiMuzio. At the time, Reissfelder was 49 and DiMuzio was 42.

Both thieves were dead within a year of their breathtaking crime. DiMuzio was murdered in a gangland hit and Reissfelder died of a drug overdose that some investigators consider suspicious.

The pair gained admission to the lightly guarded museum after midnight on March 18, 1990 by posing as uniformed Boston police officers. Once inside, they disabled the two college-aged guards and spent a leisurely 81 minutes looting the museum.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 1982; 2009; art; artheist; boston; georgereissfelder; iran; johnkerry; lennydimuzio; lurch; massachusetts; museumheist; rembrandt; seaofgalilee; waronart
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1 posted on 05/23/2018 10:32:29 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 05/23/2018 10:32:48 PM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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"I’ll go to my grave proud that we did.”

Well isn't that special. I hope Kerry will become very proud, very soon.

3 posted on 05/23/2018 10:38:24 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: drive illegally, you lose your license, here illegally, they give you one.)
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So.... how many of the stolen pieces of ‘art’ did Kerry get ? Is that why his client ended up dying under ‘mysterious’ circumstances ?


4 posted on 05/23/2018 10:45:27 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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DiMuzio was murdered in a gangland hit and Reissfelder died of a drug overdose that some investigators consider suspicious.
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Hmm Early Arkancide?

Just proves that there are even some crimes the criminals think are useless.

JFnK had to ‘clear the deck’ when he decided to run for Pres.

Wonder if anyone has checked HIS digs for the art?


5 posted on 05/23/2018 10:46:03 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""Liberals suffer from PTDS -PRESIDENT TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME")
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To: bitt
“We got justice,” Kerry told a reporter in 2009 of his work for the notorious hoodlum, “and I’ll go to my grave proud that we did.”

It's the moment after you go to your grave that you need to worry about, John.

6 posted on 05/23/2018 10:48:34 PM PDT by Fedora
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Kerry is so skinny that when he gets to hell he’ll burn like a match compared to the current grease flamethrower of Ted Kennedy and sooner than later, Hillary.


7 posted on 05/23/2018 10:56:42 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: bitt

It is odd...none of the pieces were ever recovered. Probably all sitting in some vault display area of some billionaire. One thing left out of the story....who paid the attorney fees for John Kerry?


8 posted on 05/23/2018 11:01:10 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: bitt

Where was this story back in 2004 during the election?!


9 posted on 05/23/2018 11:02:30 PM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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Ah, this ought to look good in any Kerry autobiography. Wonder if he will cover it like his anti-American rants during the Vietnam War.


10 posted on 05/23/2018 11:07:21 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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So.... how many of the stolen pieces of ‘art’ did Kerry get ? Is that why his client ended up dying under ‘mysterious’ circumstances ?

Maybe the dude committed Massachucide. 😊😁

11 posted on 05/23/2018 11:09:44 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: pepsionice

Anyone check Fauxchohantas’ teepee?


12 posted on 05/23/2018 11:32:03 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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“who paid the attorney fees for John Kerry?”

The taxpayers. He was court appointed.


13 posted on 05/23/2018 11:49:53 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: pepsionice
The story I’ve heard, from someone who knows people on both sides of the law in Boston, is that the whole thing was engineered by someone in jail, who hoped to use the paintings as a bargaining chip to get out. But the two guys he got to do the job got ripped off themselves, then the new owners found they were too hot to sell and too hot to keep, so they burned them. The idea that there are billionaires who buy paintings and hide them is a myth. The point of having trophy possessions like that is to show them off.

If you go to that museum, which is pretty cool, they still have the empty frames on the wall where the stolen paintings were.

14 posted on 05/23/2018 11:54:03 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: bitt

Has Howie praised the FIB for finally getting their men on this one?

This story doesn’t tell how they really know for sure.


15 posted on 05/24/2018 12:50:35 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bitt

John f’n K sucks ...


16 posted on 05/24/2018 1:20:58 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth
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To: UCANSEE2

What’s with the scare quotes? Do you know what the thieves took?


17 posted on 05/24/2018 3:16:00 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: UCANSEE2

My thoughts EXACTLY.

Time to search all of Kerry’s houses and yachts.


18 posted on 05/24/2018 3:42:37 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Paladin2

Wondering if Trump team found out and has deliberately put this story out there to get people to ask questions and start thinking about it.


19 posted on 05/24/2018 3:45:35 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: pepsionice
It is odd...none of the pieces were ever recovered. Probably all sitting in some vault display area of some billionaire.

Maybe Madeline Albright is keeping it safe for the real owners.

20 posted on 05/24/2018 4:06:27 AM PDT by niteowl77
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