[1] In an April 1995 profile in New York magazine, Cinque was described as a "small-time mobster, a scam artist, and an art fence.
After police used a battering ram to gain access to his home, they found 40 works of art, including pieces by Joan Miró and Frederic Remington.
Cinque had two signed Marc Chagall prints in his possession that were valued at over $20,000 each and were stolen from the Center Art Gallery.
[3] Cinque had previously been arrested for criminal possession of stolen property, insurance fraud, and grand larceny.
[4] In a memoir, New York plastic surgeon Richard Lawrence Dombroff related that Cinque said he had purchased stolen jewelry and stayed out of prison because he worked as an informant for the government.
[6] The academy is run from Cinque's Central Park South apartment in Manhattan and has been cited for extensive connections to the friends and family of Donald Trump.