Bail has been set for a prominent historian and his assistant, who are accused of stealing valuable documents from the Maryland Historical Society.
A Baltimore judge on Tuesday set bail at $500,000 for 63-year-old presidential historian Barry Landau and $750,000 for Jason Savedoff, his 24-year-old assistant, the Associated Press reported. They were being held without bail.
The two were arrested earlier this month after a Maryland Historical Society employee saw Savedoff remove a document from the library in Baltimore; investigators later found 60 documents, many of which were signed out by Landau, in Savedoff’s locker at the library.
Prosecutors said Tuesday that the pair is also suspected of taking documents from the National Archives, Vassar College and presidential libraries, according to the AP.
– Emily Babay
