Reputed mobster linked to Boston art theft HARTFORD, Conn., March 28 (UPI) -- The FBI believes reputed mobster Robert Gentile, awaiting trial on a drug arrest, has information about a 1990 Boston art heist, a prosecutor said in court. At a hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., where Gentile unsuccessfully sought bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham told U.S. District Judge Robert Chatigny prosecutors have "reason to believe Mr. Gentile had some involvement with stolen property out of the District of Massachusetts," a reference to the theft of 13 art masterworks from the Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum. The stolen paintings, taken in a robbery that involved thieves in police uniforms who bound museum guards with duct tape and who escaped with the treasures in 90 minutes, included works by Vermeer, Rembrandt and Degas. The pieces are valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the Hartford, Conn., Courant said Wednesday. The theft remains a mystery, and has baffled investigators and the art world. Gentile's lawyer, A. Ryan McGuigan, said his client had no information of the art theft and that the government requested an excessive bail to keep "a sick old man" in jail, "to keep him uncomfortable, to torture him." Gentile, 75, leaned on a cane during the proceedings. He has an arrest record dating back to the 1950s, the newspaper reported.