Former FBI Special Agent and member of the original FBI elite Art Crime Team Geoffrey Kelly joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning heist questions. How do you rob The Louvre in broad daylight? Is it true that Picasso once stole the Mona Lisa? Why don’t people do bank heists anymore? Answers to these questions and many more await on Heist Support.
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00:00 – Heist Support
00:11 – Frickin’ laser beams.
00:56 – Living rent-free in a federal database
01:18 – Mona Less-a by Lenny da Vinky
02:46 – Ben Affleck did his research
03:40 – Hang it in the Louvre
04:58 – For the culture, one masterpiece at a time
06:24 – Now you see me: now you don’t
07:13 – The perfect heist
08:23 – Ocean’s 11, but make it believable
09:01 – Picasso stole the Mona Lisa?
09:59 – Underground banking
10:48 – $150M hiding in plain sight
11:49 – Priceless ❌ Worthless ✅
13:27 – Pose for the archives
15:26 – $1 BILLION with a 🅱️
17:28 – Bank heists are so 90s
18:01 – Learning to be a criminal
19:43 – Curated by Monet, framed by Goering, seized by the FBI
21:28 – Mint condition, questionable acquisition
22:02 – Funded by grand larceny
23:09 – I got loyalty, got royalty, got digital trails inside my DNA
24:11 – Lukewarm on the trail
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Arszen Loopen yeah that guy
Really difficult to move a stolen piece of art, however shady powerful people somehow end up with palaces, exotic pets, weapons… So,
Is the FBI freemasonry or different
My controversial opinion is if someone is able to steal something in an elaborate heist that is able to fool modern security protocols and technology, There should be a countdown that starts for 5 years. After the 5 years is up, if they haven’t gotten caught, they have 30 days to come forward to explain exactly how they did it and how they got away with it. After that, they get to keep the equivalent of 50% worth of the value of what they stole. (the fair market value will be calculated using existing market conditions of the day before the statute of limitations expires. All parties claiming to participate will have to unanimously agree that they are the parties involved and if there are multiple parties, they must agree to split the value equally amongst all participating parties.)
If they do not come forward within the 30-day allotment period, The grace window expires and if they are caught after that point, they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Fun fact is that motion sensors detect differences in temperature as radiant heat, but there’s a cutoff built into the circuitry to stop false positives. So if you move slowly enough, you won’t set those off. Alternatively, simply getting the room temperature up to around 98.6 (F) will also defeat them.
24:30 Wish the police would do the same thing for finding dangerous criminals as well…
bruh I didn’t know the FBI had an Art Crimes division. Man I ‘m in the wrong industry lol