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Ex-IRA Thug Says He Pulled off 1993 Brinks Job
EFL:Ten years after a Brinkâs depot was emptied at gunpoint of $7.4 million, a former rebel from Northern Ireland admits in a memoir that he masterminded the heist. Millar, who had served time in his homeland for a botched bombing, was convicted in 1994 along with an Irish-born priest, the Rev. Patrick Moloney, of stashing $2 million from the robbery in a New York City apartment. Another holy man, they donât all wear turbans. No one was convicted of the actual robbery - a Brinkâs guard was acquitted of carrying out an inside job - and no one can be charged now because the statute of limitations ran out five years later. Which is why he can brag about it now. The rest of the money from the nationâs fifth largest armored-car holdup is missing. Investigators have said they suspect it was funneled to the Irish Republican Army. Itâs called "midnight fund raising". But Millar maintains the money was stolen a second time after he stashed it that night at the home of a friend of his purported accomplice - a man identified only as "Marco." The fact that Miller is still breathing indicates that the IRA got their money, theyâre picky about that. An FBI spokesman in Buffalo, Paul Moskal, declined to comment Thursday, but the chief investigator was skeptical of Millarâs account of what happened to the missing loot. "Thatâs a little far-fetched," retired FBI agent Dale Anderson told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. I agree. Millarâs autobiography was published in Ireland this month by Galway-based Wynkin deWorde, which also published his first novel, "Dark Souls," in April. Millar, now 49, lives in Belfast with his wife and children. Iâm sure heâs in demand on the literary cocktail circuit. As a member of IRAâs youth wing, Millar racked up a decade behind bars in Northern Ireland, in part for a botched bombing in 1976. Millar drew a five-year sentence for stashing the money from the heist, but was transferred to a Northern Ireland prison under a prisoner-exchange program in 1997 and released two months later. Posted by: Steve 2003-09-18 |
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