Just a heads-up should you be propositioned with the opportunity to acquire a 45 carat rock, cheap.
From television station ABC7, Chicago, November 8:
Chicago mobsters who stole Marlborough diamond planning 45-carat reunion?
ABC7's I-Team has been looking into the Marlborough diamond theft for nearly forty years - because the huge gemstone has never been found.
From television station ABC7, Chicago, November 8:
Chicago mobsters who stole Marlborough diamond planning 45-carat reunion?
ABC7's I-Team has been looking into the Marlborough diamond theft for nearly forty years - because the huge gemstone has never been found.
A now-elderly hoodlum who led the Chicago mob's London diamond heist in 1980 is back on the street and his Outfit accomplice has one foot out the door of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, staying in a Chicago halfway house.
Together, career mobsters Art Rachel and Jerry Scalise stole the famous Marlborough diamond from a U.K. jewelry store on September 11, 1980.
Now mob-watchers are wondering whether the Outfit duo is planning a 45-carat reunion when Rachel joins Scalise in newfound freedom from the Bureau of Prisons.
It was one of the most daring heists in Outfit history. Two men dressed as Arab sheikhs held up one of London's high end jewelry stores and walked out with hands full of gemstones, including the near million-dollar Marlborough.
Unfortunately for Art "the Genius" Rachel, he didn't live up to his mob nickname. The Genius was arrested at O'Hare Airport on his return trip with fellow Outfit thief Jerry "Monk" Scalise.
But authorities never recovered the stolen diamond and some investigators have long suspected that Scalise and Rachel somehow managed to hide the 45-carat stone.
Rachel has always denied knowing what happened to it, including during a 2001 interview with the ABC7 I-Team when he said he'd already spent the money.
When pressed by investigative reporter Chuck Goudie on how much he made from the diamond deal, Rachel said it was "none of your business."...
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