NY man charged with stealing historical documents

Published May 29, 2013 7:01am ET



BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York museum volunteer is accused of stealing and trying to sell documents from the Buffalo History Museum.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Buffalo says Tuesday that 50-year-old Daniel Witek is charged with mail fraud.

According to court documents, Witek offered to sell documents from the history museum’s A. Conger Goodyear Papers Collection to a New York City manuscript dealer. The dealer then contacted the museum.

Conger was a Buffalo-born businessman and a founder of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

A phone listing for Witek could not be located.