The Great Heist of California’s Fort Knox

“Fort Knox gets knocked over!”

This fulsome headline would surely get worldwide attention and rightly so. Intrigue, speculation and theories about whodunnit and how it all went down would dominate the news cycle for months.

What if it turned out that estimates ballparked the heist at around $30 billion in gold bars that had been airlifted to an icy mountaintop retreat. Hollywood would be readying funds, cast and crew to bring it to the big screen. By contrast, the “Ocean’s Eleven” crew, flush with swagger and wry wit, only managed to saunter out with a measly $160 million. ---More...

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