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NYPL Employee Charged in TheftsA New York Public Library employee was charged February 5 with stealing a rare sheet of music written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and six letters written by Richard Wagner and selling the items—worth more than $100,000—for just $1,000. The FBI had little trouble tracking down Helard J. Gonzales OHiggins, according to a February 6 Associated Press story, because he had given a copy of his driver's license to the bookstore that bought the items. The documents were stolen last November from NYPL's Performing Arts Research Center at Lincoln Center, where OHiggins worked as a porter, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White said. OHiggins was charged with breaking a federal law against stealing something more than 100 years old from an educational institution, FBI spokesman Joe Valiquette said, a charge that could bring a sentence of 10 years. Posted February 16, 1998. |
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