Sentenced to serve from five to seven years for this offense, he was released from prison in September 1941. OKeefe had no place to keep so large a sum of money. The names of Pino, McGinnis, Adolph Jazz Maffie, and Henry Baker were frequently mentioned in these rumors, and it was said that they had been with OKeefe on the Big Job.. (McGinnis trial in March 1955 on the liquor charge resulted in a sentence to 30 days imprisonment and a fine of $1,000. [18] The total amount stolen was $1,218,211 in cash and $1,557,183 in checks and other securities. All were paroled by 1971 except McGinnis, who died in prison. He had been convicted of armed robbery in 1940 and served several months in the Massachusetts State Reformatory and the Norfolk, Massachusetts, Prison Colony. The roofs of buildings on Prince and Snow Hill Streets soon were alive with inconspicuous activity as the gang looked for the most advantageous sites from which to observe what transpired inside Brinks offices. John Palmer: How Brinks-Mat millions came to Bedminster Brinks robbery-murders: Where the are key players now - The After receiving the go ahead signal from Costa, the seven armed men walked to the Prince Street entrance of Brinks. Evidently resigned to long years in prison or a short life on the outside, OKeefe grew increasingly bitter toward his old associates. During 1955, OKeefe carefully pondered his position. Brian Reader, 76, was jailed over the 26m Brink's-Mat armed robbery in 1983. It ultimately proved unproductive. Underworld rumors alleged that Maffie and Henry Baker were high on OKeefes list because they had beaten him out of a large amount of money. WebGordon John Parry, Brian Perry, Patrick Clark, and Jean Savage were all convicted at the Old Bailey. FBI investigates $150 million jewelry heist of Brinks truck traveling After careful checking, the FBI eliminated eight of the suspects. Andrew Cuomo commuted her 75-year-to-life sentence to time served and made her eligible for parole for the three slayings in the If local hoodlums were involved, it was difficult to believe that McGinnis could be as ignorant of the crime as he claimed. As this bag was being emptied later that evening, the glasses were discovered and destroyed by the gang. Interviews with him on June 3 and 4, 1956, disclosed that this 31-year-old hoodlum had a record of arrests and convictions dating back to his teens and that he had been conditionally released from a federal prison camp less than a year beforehaving served slightly more than two years of a three-year sentence for transporting a falsely made security interstate.