Accused mobster, near death, denies ties to Boston art heist-lawyer

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – An accused mobster on what may be his death bed once again denied knowing anything about the whereabouts of paintings stolen from a Boston museum in the largest art heist in U.S. history, his lawyer said on Saturday. Attorney Ryan McGuigan said he visited Gentile in South Carolina this week after being advised by federal officials to tell Gentile’s wife, also 80 and in ill health, and son, in his early 50s, to prepare for the possibility of the man’s death. “His story has never changed in the six years that I have represented him.” A spokesman for federal prosecutors in Connecticut declined to comment.

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Accused mobster, near death, denies ties to Boston art heist-lawyer