Rare books and maps were stolen from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and sold to collectors
A former librarian and a bookshop owner have plead guilty to the theft and trafficking of books, maps and other rare objects estimated to be worth $8 million from a Pittsburgh library.
Gregory Priore, a 63-year-old former archivist at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty to one count of theft by unlawful taking and one count of receiving stolen on Monday in exchange for dropping eight other charges on him, according to Allegheny County Court records. John Schulman, the 56-year-old shopkeeper at Caliban Book, pleaded guilty to one count of receiving stolen property, one count of theft by deception and one count of forgery the same day in exchange of dropped charges, according to court documents.
The two men did not make an agreement with prosecutors as to sentencing, which will take place April 17.Schulman’s attorney Ember Holmes told PEOPLE in a statement that her client, who has no prior criminal history, “has accepted responsibility for his association with books that, given the circumstances, he should have known had probably been stolen.”
“Mr. Schulman has dedicated much of his life to the rare book trade and regrets that these proceedings have reflected negatively on the antiquarian book industry, as well as his family and customers,” she said.Priore and Schulman were arrested July 2018 after an insurance audit done on the library’s R.
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