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Priceless Assets & the Inside Job
Blog on Crime Prevention Strategies, Investigations, Security Staff Management • posted 02/20/12
Presidential Historian Barry Landau pled guilty on Feb. 7 to stealing historical documents worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from museums, including a land grant signed by President Lincoln and inaugural addresses delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt. A search of his apartment turned up 4,000 “objects of cultural heritage” believed to have been stolen from libraries and repositories throughout America.
The case of the dishonest historian was cracked when an eagle-eyed employee at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore noticed Landau’s accomplice mixing in historical documents with personal papers. Often, however, institutions that house priceless collections are victims of sticky fingered workers.
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