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          [Boston Globe] Amateurs or Not, Martha’s Vineyard Robbers Follow in the Footsteps of Famous Criminals Including White Bulger

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          The Boston Globe recently published an article featuring Jay Zagorsky, Clinical Associate Professor, discussing Massachusetts as a haven for elaborate bank robberies.

          Massachusetts has a storied history of ambitious and meticulously crafted bank heists, which stand in stark contrast to the November 17 robbery of the Rockland Trust bank on Martha’s Vineyard. Wearing outlandish Halloween masks, the perpetrators entered the bank early on a weekday morning, detaining employees using duct tape and plastic ties and fleeing in a bank employee’s vehicle. The crime is a reminder that Massachusetts was site of some of the most notorious bank robberies in U.S. history, including those committed by infamous figures like Whitney Bulger or the famed Brink’s robbers in 1950.

          “Why not do it Labor Day weekend? It’s the last hurrah for the island, a lot of businesses are bringing in a fair amount of money, I shake my head a little bit.”

          Jay Zagorsky
          Clinical Associate Professor in Markets, Public Policy & Law

          Analysts categorized the crime as amateurish, noting that the thieves robbed the bank on a sparsely populated island with few escape routes. Traditionally, Zagorsky says, the best times to rob a bank are Mondays and Fridays, or toward the end of the month when banks are likely to have the most cash on hand. The Vineyard thieves chose a Thursday morning, well into the island’s offseason where the local population and the amount of cash-on-hand had dwindled. He states, “Why not do it Labor Day weekend? It’s the last hurrah for the island, a lot of businesses are bringing in a fair amount of money, I shake my head a little bit.”

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          Jay Zagorsky is Clinical Associate Professor in Markets, Public Policy, & Law and is a cross-disciplinary researcher who has spent over two decades of researching a wide variety of personal wealth topics. He tries to explain why some people become rich, others are poor and some move between these two states. He is currently synthesizing this research into a book that presents the results of his academic research and other wealth researchers in an accessible format.

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