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On August 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 large safe-deposit bins at a hidden knowledge bank utilized by organized offense, La Cosa Nostra, and its own associates in Providence, Rhode Island. The crooks fled with duffel bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver precious metal, stamps, cash, jewels, and high-end jewelry. The real value of the loot has always been kept secret, partially since it was ill-gotten to get started with, and partially because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight. It's a very important factor for government bodies to say that they missed a trace of goods estimated to be worthy of between $3 million and $4 million, and entirely another when that which was at stake was more effectively respected at about $30 million, the equivalent of $120 million today. It had been the biggest one pay day advance in the criminal background of the Northeast. No one arrived close, not the infamous Wayne "Whitey" Bulger, not John "The Dapper Don" Gotti, not the Brinks or Wells Fargo robbers. The heist was strong enough and big enough to rock the underworld to its center, and it left La Cosa Nostra in the region awash in turmoil. The Previous Good Heist is the within tale of the robbery and its own aftermath.
