Originally Posted By: Nicholas
One thing that's always interested me about Britain was the theft of the Marlborough diamond by a Chicago soldier, Jerry Scalise. The wiseguy has a very similar name to my own and him being a wiseguy outside of Chicago, let a lone the U.S. that and robbing a museum is something that always caught my attention.


They never found that diamond. I've heard a theory that it was recut into a bunch of smaller diamonds so that it would be impossible to trace. (Which makes sense - seriously, how else would you fence the damn thing?)