BOSTON — A man who has spent more than a decade trying to solve Boston's most famous art heist is planning a run for statewide office.
Anthony Amore - security director at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and former Homeland Security official - on Tuesday announced his candidacy for secretary of the commonwealth.
Amore was brought in after an art theft at the Gardner a dozen years ago to lead the museum's investigation for the missing works. The 1990 theft of an estimated $500 million worth of artwork, including works by Rembrandt and Johannes Vermeer, is considered the largest art heist in history.
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The Swampscott Republican is hoping to unseat the current Democratic Secretary William Galvin.
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The theft remains unsolved.
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Among other duties, the secretary of the commonwealth oversees the state's elections.