Summary of Meet the Man Who Stole $1.4 Billion With a Screwdriver

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A man who stole $1.4 billion worth of art was only sentenced to three years in prison. He is now behind bars again for trying to sell a paperweight stolen from a museum.

• 00:00:00 The video tells the story of Stefan Brightweiser, a French art thief who stole $1.4 billion worth of paintings over a period of 20 years. Stefan was caught after he accidentally left a painting he stole at a museum in Switzerland next to a police station. He was sentenced to only a suspended sentence and served no jail time.
• 00:05:00 Stefan Brightweiser was a thief who stole $1.4 billion over the course of six years. His methods were rudimentary but effective, and he typically stole from the same museum multiple times in the space of a few weeks using simple disguises. Stefan and his long-term girlfriend, Anne Catherine, lived a low-key life, working as waiters and general kitchen dogs.
• 00:10:00 Stefan Bradweezer, a man who stole over $1.4 billion worth of art with a screwdriver, was never caught because he was careful to wear gloves and never left any fingerprints. However, his luck ran out when he stole a bugle and forgot to wear gloves. If the police had dusted the bugle's display cabinet for Prince, the game would have been up.
• 00:15:00 Stefan Brightweiser was caught stealing a $1.4 billion bugle from the Richard Wagner Museum in Lucerne two days earlier. He and his girlfriend, Anne Catherine, decided to fake remorse in order to get him released from jail the first time, but when the police recovered report from the previous theft, they didn't believe him and arrested him again. When police discovered the treasures hidden in his mother's car, he confessed to all of the art thefts, including the one at the Wagner Museum, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• 00:20:00 A man was caught stealing art worth over $1.4 billion, and he was only sentenced to three years in prison. He is now behind bars again for trying to sell a paperweight stolen from a museum.