These two men are wearing coats with special pockets designed to hide and steal documents. Barry Landau and Jason Savedoff posed as researchers in order to steal documents from archives, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York. On Thursday, March 7, at noon Mitch Yockelson of the Archival Recovery Team and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Warwick will discuss the Landau case. (Watch it LIVE on http://www.ustream.tv/NARA) During the investigation, over 10,000 items were seized as evidence, including priceless documents in the hand of Frank Delano Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Sir Isaac Newton, and Charles Dickens. Landau was sentenced seven years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy and theft of historical documents from cultural institutions in four states. Savedoff was sentenced to a year in prison. “A Conspiracy to Steal History: Barry Landau and Jason Savedoff,” will be held Thursday, March 7, at at noon in the McGowan Theater in the National Archives Building.
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These two men are wearing coats with special pockets designed to hide and steal documents.

Barry Landau and Jason Savedoff posed as researchers in order to steal documents from archives, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York.

On Thursday, March 7, at noon Mitch Yockelson of the Archival Recovery Team and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Warwick will discuss the Landau case. (Watch it LIVE on http://www.ustream.tv/NARA)

During the investigation, over 10,000 items were seized as evidence, including priceless documents in the hand of Frank Delano Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Sir Isaac Newton, and Charles Dickens.

Landau was sentenced seven years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy and theft of historical documents from cultural institutions in four states. Savedoff was sentenced to a year in prison.

“A Conspiracy to Steal History: Barry Landau and Jason Savedoff,” will be held Thursday, March 7, at at noon in the McGowan Theater in the National Archives Building.

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    What the well dressed thief wears. Not related, I just like the term “Archival Recovery Team.”
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    Better information would be on where to get thoes jackets ;)
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    Huh. So that’s actually how you steal the Declaration of Independence.
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    Well, there was a Law and Order episode about it once, so it probably happens all the time.
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    Let’s hope they were each someone’s “wife” in prison
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  27. mrarchivist reblogged this from todaysdocument and added:
    Ah, the smiling face of cultural property theft. Rot, you bastards.
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    This is terrible. Is theft like this more common than one would imagine? (Never trust a guy who looks like a poor man’s...