Some real-life clever criminals for your reading pleasure on this Saturday.
For some reason, regardless of a person’s moral integrity, organized criminal activity has always been appealing to people. Whether it’s hearing about Italian mobsters in The Sopranos, or watching the booze-swinging bootleggers of Boardwalk Empire, people love to hear about the sly, smooth bad boys who found a way to beat the system.
Instead of following the fictitious escapades of TV and movie characters though, let’s take a look into some real, historically accurate heists that have occurred in the past 100 years.
For starters, take a look at a group of Brazilian thieves who went old-school and dug a hole straight into the vault room at a Brazilian bank in 2005, and walked away with $65 million. Or, an Italian nationalist who hid inside The Louvre overnight and walked out the front door the next day with the original Mona Lisa under his jacket!
