Italian Restaurant in Madison

Elena Guarente was having a hard time financially after Robert’s death. The Italian restaurant she had opened near her home in Madison, Maine had closed and she was living on social security disability assistance.

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‘Bobby, I’m in need of money,” she began. “I know my husband gave you those stolen paintings. You need to come to Maine to talk to Earle Berghman…”

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Berghman and Gentile met in a food court at a Portland mall. It was April 2010.

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Instead, he told Berghman that if Elene needed money, why didn’t she call the Boston lawyer who had provided her late husband with a $30,000 loan in the late 1980s that he used to buy his first house in central Maine.

Stephen Kurkjian, Master Thieves

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