Sakhai and his wife became active members of the Long Island community where they donated money to Jewish organisations and established a Torah study centre.
According to reports, Japanese collectors trusted the certificates and would not subsequently commission European experts to authenticate the paintings.
[4] In May 2000, both Christie's and Sotheby's realized they were both offering Paul Gauguin's Vase de Fleurs (also known as Lilas), both supposedly original.
[7] In July 2005 he was sentenced to 41 months in prison, fined $12.5 million, and ordered to forfeit eleven works of art.
In 2009, Sakhai cooperated with ICE agents seeking to return a copy of Belgian artist Anto Carte's Young Girl in a Blue Dress stolen by the Nazis during World War II.