The lawyer for a Connecticut mobster suspected to have ties to the notorious $500 million Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist in 1990 says he doesn't expect a deathbed confession from his client.

Hartford attorney A. Ryan McGuigan tells the Boston Globe he visited the hospital where 80-year-old Robert Gentile is in failing health on Friday to see if he'd talk about the artwork.

But Gentile, who has steadfastly insisted he has no knowledge of the heist, responded tearfully that "there's no paintings," McGuigan said.