Was a Notorious Mobster Behind This 'Infamous' Pittsburgh Heist?

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In 1982, 26 bags of cash were stolen from an armored truck terminal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Just who was behind the perfectly executed caper has remained an enduring mystery.

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Was a Notorious Mobster Behind This ‘Infamous’ Pittsburgh Heist?
In 1982, 26 bags of cash were stolen from an armored truck terminal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Just who was behind the perfectly executed caper has remained an enduring mystery.
11:40 AM · Jan 29, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/was-a-notorious-mobster-behind-this-infamous-pittsburgh-heist

I t was March 17, 1982—St. Patrick’s Day—and James Powers was in the middle of his shift at the Purolator armored truck terminal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a security guard.

At about 11:30 p.m., two men wearing trench coats, dark felt hats, and aviator sunglasses ducked under a garage door as a truck left the depot to make a delivery. The men, one white and one Black, were roughly 6 feet tall and each carried a walkie-talkie. Once inside, they approached Powers, who was the only guard on-site that night, and introduced themselves as FBI agents while flashing their credentials.

The pair told Powers, 54, that the FBI had received a tip warning that the facility was going to be robbed. And that’s when they did exactly that.

After overwhelming Powers and grabbing a shotgun from his hands as well as a pistol from a holster on his hip, the intruders handcuffed him, tied his legs together, taped his mouth and eyes shut, and forced him to lie on the floor in an employee lounge. The men then used Powers’ keys to access a vault area, taking some 26 bags of cash waiting to be delivered to banks across western Pennsylvania.

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[Turbineguy]

1. ".... perfectly executed..."

Well that leaves out Trump.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. My First Thought Is "Inside Job"

The perps knew he would be the only security. They knew what time that truck would be leaving. They knew that the last of the money wasn't gone.
A mobster could still be an organizer, but they had to have details only an insider would have.