Presidential historian, aide appear in US court, charged with conspiring to steal documents

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Source: Associated Press

BALTIMORE — A presidential historian facing federal theft and conspiracy charges involving historical documents from archives in several states will remain in federal custody over the weekend.

A judge will wait to consider prosecutors’ recommendation that Barry Landau remain in custody on Monday to give pretrial officials time to review his case.

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Landau, 63, and Savedoff, 24, were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday, accused of stealing and selling historical documents that include a letter from Benjamin Franklin and speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/presidential-historian-aide-appear-in-us-court-charged-with-conspiring-to-steal-documents/2011/07/29/gIQAVhqqhI_story.html

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. Scary: were they try to steal history, or make it disappear? nt

[fascisthunter]

2. So they are trying to destroy evidence of history of FDR and benjamin Franklin

let me guess, they are fascists or hired by fascists?

[former9thward]

3. You guess wrong.

They wanted the material to sell it.

[Confusious]

4. A historian doing this

Beyond disappointing, appalling, nauseating, and any other word you want to add.

[Adsos Letter]

5. I agree. Aside from the criminality of the matter

there is the fact that those are national treasures belonging to the American people; also, putting them in the hands of private collectors denies other scholars access to them.