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Brian Ross and Jill Rackmill reported for ABC News on PrimeTime March 11, 2004.
"Federal prosecutors did not want the thieves to get away with a deal.
'You can't turn your back on a very serious criminal offense, and if you do, you basically give ammunition
to other people to steal priceless works of art,' said Donald Stern," who was the former U.S. attorney for Massachusetts,
during the 1997 Youngworth negotiations.
Quest to Solve 1990 Art Heist Gets New Life By Elizabeth Mehran Los Angeles Times September 23, 1997
US reportedly wants to talk to Connor on Gardner theft by Ric Kahn Boston Globe August 21, 1997
Offer Made On Painting photo by Ric Kahn and Stephen Kurkjian Boston Globe September 12, 1997
Gardner case's twists, turns lead to dead ends March 18, 2000
Historic Tale of Infamous Hub Heist March 19, 2000
Ex-FBI Agent asks inmate William Youngworth for help on Gardner artwork Boston Globe July 1, 1999
Art Talks on again, Youngworth claims Stephen Kurkjian Boston Globe Thursday February 19, 1998
"Saying he was speaking for US Attorney Donald K. Stern, Brien O'Connor said last night
that the office's position had not changed: "Youngworth would not be granted comple
or partial immunity unless he can provide specific and credible evidence that he has access to the artwork."
Documents show Gardner gadfly [Youngworth] was informant
By Tom Mashberg
March 18, 2004
"With the 14th anniversary of the Gardner theft today, Youngworth wrote to the museum asking 'Are you still ready to write out that check?' and asserting: I will need to travel to Europe"
to recover the $300 million in pillaged treasures.
New Clues in Art Heist Mystery By Brian Ross and Jill Rackmill January 6, 2006
The Art of the Heist The Guardian November 18, 2000 Many officials at the Gardner museum, and also some officers at the FBI, did favour some form of compromise [with Youngworth], but those higher up in the legal establishment had no desire to send such a message to the criminal fraternity at large. The attorney general's office in Washington warned against pandering to "cultural terrorism".
Boston Art Caper (Contd): The Art of the Deal New Yok Times January 13, 1998
The deal of the art More than seven years after one of the heists of the century, the case of the missing Gardner Museum paintings provokes an all-out media war by Dan Kennedy The Boston Phoenix September 4, 1997 At the Globe, where Mashberg worked for several years and made himself supremely unpopular with his editors and some fellow staffers, there are murmurings that the reporter has gotten too close to Youngworth, and that he'll pay for his indiscretions.
On August 10 Mashberg reported on a raid of Connor associate William Youngworth's antique shop, and on Youngworth's claims that he's tried to put his criminal past behind him. The final card was placed on the table on August 13, beneath the front-page banner headline LET'S MAKE A DEAL. Mashberg wrote that Youngworth -- who had recently helped return the stolen Massachusetts Bay Colony seal -- was "ready to facilitate" the recovery of the paintings stolen from the Gardner."Younworth Interview, Your Brush With the Law Blog Posts: 26 December 2011 and January 1, 2012
GARDNER THEFT: 15 YEARS LATER by William Youngworth
Brian Ross Interview with William Youngworth
Mystery of the paint chips haunts Gardner Museum 30 years after heist
By Shelley Murphy Globe Staff,Updated March 16, 2020
2022 interview of William P. Youngworth III by Charles Sabba
2007 interview of William P. Youngworth, Electric Sky Productions The Art of the Heist Episode 2
Youngworth Trial Coverage 1997
The Isabella Gardner Museum heist
By Rochelle Steinhaus Court TV November 26, 2002
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