The Nation - News from Feb. 27, 1985
The FBI arrested a former New Jersey recording studio employee and recovered a stolen master copy of unpublished music and conversations of the Beatles that officials said is worth millions of dollars. Michael Keith Reibel, 30, was arrested at Boca Raton, Fla., and was being held on a federal charge of interstate transportation of stolen property, FBI spokesman Joseph Delcampo said. Reibel, a former employee of Studio Systems Inc. of Jersey City, N.J., is alleged to have taken a master copy of unpublished taped private recordings of music and conversations of the Beatles from a company vault between Feb. 12 and 15, Delcampo said.
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