The theft that occurred at the Louvre Museum in Paris over the weekend is "damn close" to most expense museum theft in history, according to one of the most famous art thieves in the world. Myles Connor walked into the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and walked out with a Rembrandt painting in the 1980s. "The best that they can do if they want to make any money out of them would be to hang on to them for a few years and then have somebody approach the museum, let’s say, an attorney, and say, 'Listen, I've got these guys that might be able to recover them, but they're putting their life in danger,'" Connor said to ABC News by phone when asked how the thieves could get any money from the heist. He estimates the reward for the items taken from the Louvre could be as much as $5 million. "I stole
American art thief reacts to Louvre Museum heist

95