[CPProt.net] Art of the Scam

[Charles V. Sabba]

Some of Billy Youngworth's earliest memories are of his grandfather Billy Sullivan, who was a prominent member in the Boston Irish mob and Joe McDonald
Hi Ton, I have developed a good rapport with William P Youngworth and his friend and author of his soon to be released book,  Eric Welle. Youngworth has been talking to me about the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist- much of this never revealed info will be posted over time on the ROLL CALL page of www.YourBrushWithTheLaw.com . While, unfortunately, he has not provided me a map with an X on it, it is very interesting to hear him speak a little more openly about the heist then he has in the past. Here are a few paragraphs of an article Eric Welle submitted on 17/11/2005, the rest can be read at the BrushWithTheLaw site.
Keep up the good work Ton. You are a good man! 
Charles Vincent Sabba Jr 





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Art of the Scam

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed of $500 million in precious art more than 15 years ago. The theft remains unsolved and although, numerous suspects have been investigated over the years, none have been more compelling than Billy Youngworth. For a brief time in 1997, Billy was renowned for making claims that he could broker the return of the stolen paintings. He didn't do it in his own, however; he had the help of a ravenous town crier.

Billy was publicly connected to the theft in the summer of 1997, after a FBI informant finger-pointed him as the guy holding the loot. But this wasn't the first time that they'd considered him a suspect. Three days after the theft, in March of 1990, two FBI agents visited him in the Federal Correctional Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was finishing a 3-year sentence. They started asking him questions about the heist, telling him there weren't too many people who pulled this sort of job and that he and Myles Connor were at the top of their list.

Myles had received a similar visit. The FBI visited him just two days following the theft in a federal prison in Chicago, where he was awaiting trial for transporting stolen paintings (these were not the paintings taken from the ISG). Apparently, the bureau had a deep suspicion that one of, or both of the men, despite the fact that they were behind bars, had something to do with the biggest art heist in history.

 By age 16, under the guiding wing of Myles Connor, Billy had already stolen several major paintings. In 1975, they hit the Mead Museum at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, swiping several paintings - The Interior of the New Church, by H.C. Van Vliet and St. John the Baptist, by Peter Lastman. Later that same year, Billy snatched a Rembrandt from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to win his protégé's release from prison. 

In the New England region, Myles Connor is tantamount to art theft. His first conviction was in 1966 for robbing the Forbes Museum in Milton, Massachusetts. In 1974, he was accused by authorities and pled guilty to stealing dozens of paintings from the Woolworth estate in Monmouth, Maine., but avoided a prison sentence because he "arranged" for the return of the Portrait of a Girl, Wearing A Gold Trimmed Cloak. Since then, every time a piece of art goes missing, Connor's name is brought up.

Continued on the ROLL CALL page of:

www.YourBrushWithTheLaw.com
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