Lecture: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist - Tuesday, January 23, 5 p.m.

Join us for this special talk by FBI Special Agent Geoff Kelly, head of the FBI’s Art Crime taskforce, which has continued to investigate the 1990 theft of 13 artworks valued at over $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Agent Kelly will present his talk in the Barone Campus Center's Dogwood Room on Tuesday, January 23 at 5 p.m.

From FBI.gov: “The FBI established a rapid deployment Art Crime Team in 2004. The team is composed of 20 special agents, each responsible for addressing art and cultural property crime cases in an assigned geographic region. The Art Crime Team is coordinated through the FBI’s Art Theft Program, located at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Art Crime Team agents receive specialized training in art and cultural property investigations and assist in art related investigations worldwide in cooperation with foreign law enforcement officials and FBI legal attaché offices.The U.S. Department of Justice provides special trial attorneys to the Art Crime Team for prosecutive support. Since its inception, the Art Crime Team has recovered more than 15,000 items valued at over $800 million.”

Image: Picture provided by the FBI showing the empty frames for missing paintings after the theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum