After a fortune in cash was stolen from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s farmhouse, he kept it secret. Now that word is out, critics ask what he was hiding.
Tag: Robberies and Thefts
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Theft of Brooklyn Church’s Gold Tabernacle Stabs at Hearts of Faithful
A Brooklyn congregation condemned the desecration of their sacred sanctuary in a burglary that the pastor called “one more blow” to a struggling church.
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A $2-Million Tabernacle Was Stolen From a Brooklyn Cathedral
Someone apparently armed with a power saw broke into the church and walked off with the solid-gold, bejeweled tabernacle, the police said.
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Seeing de Kooning in a New Light, After a Violent Theft
When “Woman-Ochre” goes on view at the Getty Museum after its conservation, the painting will have a new mystique. But competing interpretations remain.
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Kathy Boudin, Radical Imprisoned in a Fatal Robbery, Dies at 78
She had a role in the Brink’s heist by the Weather Underground that left two police officers dead. But she became a model prisoner and, after being freed, helped former inmates.