198 | The Gardner Museum Heist Part 2
Best Case Worst Case
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🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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The largest art heist in US history bagged $500 million in stolen art. Who took it? Where is it now? Retired FBI Agent Bob Wittman continues with part 2 of this investigation
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| 0:00.0 | The Gardener Museum in Boston was robbed of 300 million and probably at least 500 million |
| 0:11.5 | in today's dollars worth of art. |
| 0:15.3 | You're shady enough to be carrying around or have access to 30 million dollars to pay |
| 0:19.8 | for these paintings. |
| 0:20.8 | They were always using knives. |
| 0:23.8 | They told me they like to bring knives to the meetings. |
| 0:26.6 | But I have two guns. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello, welcome to the best case worst case. |
| 0:38.8 | This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler for New York City prosecutor and writer producer |
| 0:42.8 | of CBS's criminal minds. |
| 0:44.2 | And with me today is... |
| 0:45.2 | Hi everybody, it's Francie Hanks, former state and federal prosecutor Jim. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm still in California. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm still not in the studio with you. |
| 0:54.2 | We're still social difference. |
| 0:56.5 | Back with us is our really exciting guest, right? |
| 1:01.0 | Yes, and he is. |
| 1:03.0 | It's Bob Whitman, I'm a retired FBI special agent and I was the art specialist for the Bureau. |
| 1:08.8 | Well, I'm sure the Bureau loved having you as an art specialist and hated having you |
| 1:14.0 | as an art specialist because I know when I was working undercover, I hated the FBI. |
| 1:20.3 | It was the kind of thing where the rules and regulations fought tremendously with the |
| 1:28.1 | things that they wanted me to do undercover and it was always a fight and I always had |
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