the gang of five burglars that carried out that heist were headed by the guy with the best name in heists ever. his name was leonardo notarbartollo. he got caught, but what was stolen in that heist was never found. $100 million worth of diamonds and gold and jewelry and other loot all poof. even after he was arrested, he denied his involvement in the crime for a long time. but in 2009, he did a tell-all for wired magazine including the details about how he cracked the vault. all of that is in wired magazine s article, which is linked tonight or wait for the movie, the forth coming film will be produced and possibly directed by j.j. abrams who made lost and star trek and ghost protocol. it happened again in the same place, and this is the heist that took the big surprise turn in the news today. so it was february this year,
made off with 13 works of art from the isabella stewart art museum in boston, art worth billions of dollars. cops think these guys were the culprits. february of last year, a mobster was arrested on drug charges, and i thought at the time maybe he would fess up to be connected with the heist. he did not fess up. and a search of his house found none of the stolen art. but this march, the fbi came out to say they had new leads in this case. they offered a $45,000 reward for the return of this artwork. the mobster is scheduled to be charged tomorrow not on the art heist, but everyone hopes he ll fess up with what happened to the billions of dollars of art. if you re obsessed with a particular heist, an even
fallon, i will be there wearing this jacket. that s one thing. the other thing i have to tell you is, heist. heist, there s an amazing heist story in the news today that is not ending the way that anybody thought it was going to end, but we now know how it s going to end. it s amazing, heist, that s coming up.
terrorism s threat today is sort of like war in some ways, it s sort of like crime in other ways, maybe we need to get past this either/or stuff and figure out realistically what s an effective strategy for dealing with this that doesn t overrely on using sledge hammers and military force and undermine the effective tools we do have to disrupting terrorist finance, for instance, disrupting terrorist communications. i m cautiously optimistic these hearings do represent some renewed willingness to take a serious issue seriously. maybe i m i hope i m not wrong, but i would like to think so. your optimism about it, you have moved me to feel more optimistic about it. i guess i should feel that way about the fact you agreed to speak at haerting, but it still freaks me out. we shall see, rosa brooks, thanks for being here. thanks, rachel. straight ahead, the coolest action movie heist/caper story
place. and this is the heist that took the big surprise turn in the news today. it was february this year. a helvetic airways plane was on the tarmac in brussels preparing forteoff. it s about 25 miles from antwerp, which is the diamond capital. they were going through their final security checks. brings security guards had just loaded up a very valuable shipment of cut and uncut diamonds worth $50 million. as they were finished loading the diamonds from the armored car into the plane, suddenly from nowhere what ooappeared toe two police cars came up with lights flashing, eight policemen, and this was maybe the sign they weren t pliolice, because they were wearing baklavas over their faces. they took the diamonds, sped away. they had cut a hole in the airport fence. they drove right through it.