Maybe the prison library will have openings
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- August
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  A former state employee pleaded guilty today to second-degree grand larceny, a felony, for stealing more than $50,000 worth of artifacts and documents from the state archives, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reported. The thefts, which took place between Jan. 1, 1997 and Jan. 24, 2008, included a Currier and Ives lithograph, Davy Crockett Almanacs and a Winfield Scott Hancock Calling Card. Â
  Daniel Lorello, 54, of Rensselaer had been an archives and records management specialist with the state Department of Education until his arrest in January. He had sold some of what he stole on eBay and traded others at collectors’ shows, according to the attorney general. The state has so far recovered more than 1,600 items.
  Joseph Romito of Virginia tipped off the state to what Lorello was doing. Romito suspected the State Library owned something Lorello put up for sale on eBay—a letter to a New York general in 1823 from John C. Calhoun, seventh vice president of the United States under John Quincy Adams.
  Loretto will be sentenced Oct. 1 to 2 to 6 years in prison. He must pay $73,000 in restitution to people who unknowingly bought stolen property and then returned it, and $56,000 to the Department of Education. He must forfeit all items seized and his private book collection.
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Speaking about stealing from government archives, what’s become of Sandy Berger, Mr. Clinton’s buddy, who was caught stuffing (classified, national security) documents in his socks, not once, but multiple times in DC? As I recall, he never saw a day behind bars. Prison libraries are, at least, frequented by prisoners. One wonders when a Congressman was last seen in or about the Library of Congress.
Berger should be with this guy at Shawangunk, or Otisville.
The archivist’s thefts are sad. Berger’s were treacherous. But they both have role models—Tobias Beecher and the Malachy McCourt character in Oz.