Three mills were purchased from Time Inc.: the Maine Seaboard Paper Company at Bucksport, Maine…

St. Regis invested $9.5 million in timberlands in 1968, with the addition of 95,000 acres.

Then, they believe, Guarente held onto the paintings at his home in Maine until the early 2000s…

In his book, The Art of the Heist, Connor wrote that Donati had shown him how easy it would be to break into the Woolworth Estate in Monmouth, Maine.

Sometime in early 2010, Elene Guarente had summoned the FBI’s Geoff Kelly and Anthony Amore, security chief for the Gardner, to her Maine home and was relaying her suspicions about her late husband, Gentile, and the stolen Gardner paintings.

Elena Guarente was having a hard time financially after Robert’s death. The Italian restaurant she had opened near her home in Madison, Maine had closed and she was living on social security disability assistance.

Twice in a matter of months Jeanine produced what she claimed were chips she had collected from paintings her late father had at their home in Madison, Maine.

She testified before a federal grand jury in Boston in 2010, giving details consistent with what she originally told Geoff Kelly, the FBI’s lead agent on the case, and Anthony Amore, the museum’s security chief, at her home in Maine.

Kitsey, when she opened the door to me that night, was not actually quite so composed as she might have been: she was talking of several things at once,

“…All you need to tell him, if he calls, is that the piece was up at your place in Maine until your mother sold it to me a couple of years back.”

“I’m thinking they might make a family announcement once we get up to Maine.”

I felt like I’d been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

He was sentenced to five years in prison, and released on probation in August 2002.

On numerous occasions, over a six-month period beginning in August 1997, the informant paid thousands of dollars to Guarente for cocaine deliveries.

In the early 1990s, as they settled into their new homestead in Madison, Maine, Bobby Guarente had shown Elene a painting of a woman sitting in a rocking chair with her head turned to the side…

The name Elene Guarente wasn’t new to federal agents.

The Stotesburys also had a summer cottage at Bar Harbor in Maine

“Elene Guerante showed it to me,” Gentile said, referring to the widow of Robert Guarente

In 2005, Guarente’s daughter and his best friend spoke to a Boston lawyer about the possibility that Guarente had kept several of the masterpieces stashed in his farmhouse in Madison, Maine.

The Vanderbilts between them owned some twenty thousand miles of railway line and most of what rolled along it, and that provided them with more money than they really knew what to do with.