A longtime Gardner suspect’s sentence was quietly reduced
The government has quietly shaved seven years off the sentence of David Turner, a longtime suspect in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery, reports The Boston Globe.
The move has raised questions about whether Turner agreed to help officials recover the $500 million worth of stolen artwork, reports the Globe. Turner, 38, of Braintree, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for the attempted robbery of an Easton armored car company in 1999.
Turner’s possible involvement in the investigation came to light during federal court proceedings that connected Turner to Connecticut mobster Robert Gentile. In 2010, via a letter from prison, Turner tried to set up a meeting between Gentile and some associates about the stolen artwork, reports the Globe.
“I think it means that he was cooperating with the federal government in trying to aid them in gleaning information as to the whereabouts of the paintings,’’ A. Ryan McGuigan, Gentile’s lawyer, told the Globe about the reduced sentence.
Read the full story in the Globe.
13 works stolen from the Gardner museum in 1990:
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