Barry Landau
American self-styled historian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Barry H. Landau (born c. 1948) is a noted thief of presidential artifacts,[1] collector of presidential artifacts,[2] author,[3] and "self-styled 'America's Presidential Historian'".[4] In July 2011, Landau's associate, 24-year-old Jason Savedoff, was seen taking a document out of a library.[5] After an investigation and various searches, Landau and Savedoff were "charged with stealing valuable historical documents from the Maryland Historical Society and conspiring to steal documents from other archives."[6] After pleading guilty, Landau was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in June 2012.