skry<p>“Court documents from the time show that on July 7, 1969, Gerald Festa, Gerald Donnerstag, and Austin Castiglione — who have since died — tried to steal a coin collection from the Wood residence but triggered a burglar alarm and fled. The same trio returned July 25 and took the painting.</p><p>Festa confessed…during Donnerstag's trial in 1975 and said that he and the others were acting under the direction of then-state Sen. Anthony Imperiale, who died in 1999.”</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/priceless-18th-century-painting-returned-theft-mobsters-54-years-ago-rcna136115" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/us-news/price</span><span class="invisible">less-18th-century-painting-returned-theft-mobsters-54-years-ago-rcna136115</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtCrime</span></a></p>