{"id":64175,"date":"2008-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/security-director-speaks-on-art-theft\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T00:00:00","slug":"security-director-speaks-on-art-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/11\/security-director-speaks-on-art-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Security director speaks on Art Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I.- November 17, 2008- The Director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will discuss, \u201cArt Theft\u201d on Friday, Nov. 21 at the äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾\u2019s Forensic Science Seminar.<\/p>\n


\nAnthony Amore\u2019s lecture will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Pastore Hall, 51 Lower College Road, Room 124 and is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n


\nAmore will be discussing his work with the recovery of the 13 pieces of work that were stolen from the Isabella Gardner museum in Boston. He will talk about the problem of art theft in general, including the enormous scale of the issue, how it occurs, and why it is done. He will specifically refer to a number of infamous thefts as well as speak about the complexities of investigating the 1990 theft from the Gardner museum.<\/p>\n


\n\tAmore has been the director of security since 2005, where he oversees the security and protection of the museum. He worked with the FBI to recover the 13 works of art stolen from the museum on March 18, 1990. Amore brings to the position more than 14 years of national security, law, intelligence, and crisis management experience with federal government agencies like the U.S.<\/p>\n


\nDepartment of Homeland Security\u2019s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)\u2019s Security Division. At the FAA, Amore was instrumental in the reorganization and regionalization of national security efforts post- Sept. 11th and was the agency\u2019s lead agent responding to the attempted terrorist attack by Richard Reid, the so-called \u201cShoe Bomber\u201d in December 2001. At the TSA his superiors nominated Amore in 2002 and 2003 for a Service to America Medal.<\/p>\n

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KINGSTON, R.I.- November 17, 2008- The Director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will discuss, \u201cArt Theft\u201d on Friday, Nov. 21 at the äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾\u2019s Forensic Science Seminar. Anthony Amore\u2019s lecture will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Pastore Hall, 51 Lower College Road, Room 124 and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}