Plot To Cash In On Stolen First Folio Outlined In Court

“Calling unannounced at [the Folger Shakespeare Library], the 53-year-old pressed reticent academics to back his claim that the 387-year-old treasure was previously unknown, kept in a box by the mother of a major in Fidel Castro’s army.” In reality, a prosecutor said, the man “allegedly forced locks at a sparsely attended exhibition in Durham to steal the book 10 years earlier.”