April 1972 – Woolworth House (Maine): Oils and watercolors worth $250,000+ stolen from Mrs. Norman B. Woolworth.
Sept 4, 1972 – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Canada’s largest heist. 18 paintings including a Rembrandt and Rubens stolen via a skylight.
Memorial Day 1974 – Woolworth Estate: The theft of “The Wyeths.”
April 14, 1975 – Museum of Fine Arts (Boston): “The Blueprint.” A Rembrandt was stolen and then “traded” for a reduced sentence. This established art as Sovereign Collateral—a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for those who know the game.
Dec 24, 1978 – de Young Museum in San Francisco: Rembrandt’s Portrait of a Rabbi stolen via a skylight.
The Playwright’s Return (1999): 21 years later, it was returned anonymously in a box to an auction house by a man in a wig and hat.
1983: Frederick and William Koch settle their lawsuit against brothers Charles and David, walking away with $1.1 Billion. The “Architects” now have unlimited liquidity to fund the next phase without oversight.
1986: Frederick R. Koch purchased the historic 6 East 80th Street townhouse (also known as the “Donahue Mansion” or “Woolworth Mansion”) in Manhattan in 1986 for $5 million. He restored this former Gilded Age mansion, which was built for Frank W. Woolworth’s daughter. Read the Woolworth and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum connection here.
1984–1986: The Infrastructure Build (Miami) With the cash secured, Frederick Koch builds the machine to clean the assets.
The Proof: Documents confirm he was operating as “Ed Koch” in Miami for years before he introduced himself as “Ed Koch” to my mother. He didn’t invent the alias at the flea market; he incorporated it.
March 18, 1990 – ISGM (Boston): The Gardner Heist.
Sept 9, 1990 – Houghton Hall (UK): Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s The White Duck.
Dec 21, 1990: Mary Robinson Koch (Frederick’s mother) passes away.
Sept 24, 1991: Gardner suspect Robert Donati is murdered.
Nov 1991: “Ed Koch” (Frederick R. Koch) appears at an Okeechobee flea market. He sells the “damaged” checklist to my mother, Mary, for mere dollars. Read the notes written between them.
March 1992: My mother visits Sotheby’s they are willing to sell only the Jane Peterson on Kodak paper but none of the rest. The value they give it isn’t what Mr. Koch says it is worth. So she decides to wait until he visits her at the flea market again so she can get answers.
1994: Letter written to Museum trying to return the artwork. This person has knowledge of the international art trading world. The letter is postmarked from New York (Frederick R. Koch has a home in New York). They use the newspaper to communicate.
Nov 2000: Charles Darwin’s notebooks, including the famous “Tree of Life” sketch, were first discovered missing in January 2001 from Cambridge University Library, though they were last seen in November 2000 after being removed for photography, with the library concluding they were stolen around that time.
Feb 2002: I contact the Calder Foundation to submit the drawings, stating “Ed Koch, deceased” as the provenance from a flea market in Okeechobee in 1990 – though we later determined I was off by a year it was 1991 and 1992. I am sure Mr. Rower contacted the Koch brothers and they knew exactly what to say. They are the billionaires and get accusations against them all the time.
Feb 2002: Sold two paintings on eBay. If you view the original 2002 eBay listing for the Picasso drawing
Nov 2005: Anthony Amore is hired as the Director of Security and Chief Investigator, a position created specifically to recover the stolen art. Mr. Amore has zero art, museum, or crime experience – read more about that here.
July 2010: My mother gifts me the Calder drawings and asked me to help her try to figure out her story again. Asked me to put her story and the artwork on the internet. I created Looking-For-Ed-Koch.com.
October 3, 2010: Frederick R. Koch is found and I change the domain for the website to TheArtworkStory.com
2010/2011:Emailed Koch Industries and I also started emailing Robert Wittman after seeing him on a tv show.
Jan 24, 2011:After an email with John Olsen, I googled Frederick R. Koch and Sotheby’s I found the fire. I emailed Lloyds of London and within 24 hours Julian Radcliffe from the Art Loss register called me. Wanting to come to America to meet us.
Feb 14, 2011:Julian Radcliffe’s response – I believe I mailed him the Calder drawings after this response. After he received the artwork there was a response of he didn’t believe the artwork was real. So I asked him to return the artwork. Which he did in October. I also emailed Robert Wittman to inform him of the recent developments.
July 5, 2011: Anthony Amore releases Stealing Rembrandt: Focuses on the history of Rembrandt heists. How is he an art heist expert?
Feb 11, 2012: I meet Robert Wittman at an event, and he has the Koch brothers (Charles, David, and William) there with him. Reporting Frederick R. Koch sold this artwork to my mother. I showed him the photo my mother identified as the man that visited with her. That photo is in every newsletter I send out.
April 2012: I had the paper tested, which confirmed it is from the correct time period. Erich Speckin
May 2012: FBI return to Robert Gentile’s home – They spent the day digging in his yard and searching a backyard shed with a secret underground compartment. It was a massive media event, designed to look like the “End Game” for the Gardner heist. The Reality: They found nothing. No art. Just more dirt.
June 2012: I solve the ISGM heist by connecting the “checklist” of art sold to my mother. After seeing the heist in the news.
Here is where I wait to allow the “SILENCE” to do their job. Fast forward 2026 no one has done their job… For a whistleblower SILENCE doesn’t mean they are helping it means they aren’t.
March 18, 2013: Nine months after I handed the FBI the solution, they suddenly announced they had “solved” the case but wouldn’t name the suspects. Two years later (2015), they claimed the thieves were dead. It was a convenient way to close the case—except the men I identified (Koch and Olsen) were still alive and well.
July 14, 2015: Anthony Amore releases The Art of the Con: Focuses on forgeries and fakes—positioning him as the ultimate authority on what is “real” vs. “fake.”
March 2018: Mailed binder evidence – White House Mar A Lago Ivanka Trump Fox News Museum – DELIVERED. Fox News was delivered on March 20, 2018 at 1:24 pm after its journey (view that receipt here) – view all the evidence on this page.
March 20, 2018: Anthony Amore officially announced his candidacy for Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Aug 23, 2019: David Koch dies. He was the most public and politically shielded of the brothers. The Darwin Notebooks were stolen for David Koch in 2000.
Feb 12, 2020: Frederick R. Koch dies. The primary architects are now off the board. Only two witnesses remain: William Koch and John Olsen. Plus Anthony Amore as the gatekeeper.
Oct 2020: Only after both brothers are deceased does Cambridge University finally “admit” the Darwin notebooks were stolen. For 20 years, they claimed the books were simply “misplaced”—waiting for a deathbed return that the Koch deaths finally triggered. I sent a tip and got confirmation see my youtube about it. The Return: The “Happy Easter” note in a pink bag is the same “Theatricality” as the “Portrait of a Rabbi” returned in a box by a man in a wig. It proves they treat these returns as a game.
Nov 10, 2020: Anthony Amore releases The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: Focuses on Rose Dugdale and the 1974 Russborough House heist.
Nov 24, 2020:I emailed Cambridge University my tip for the stolen Notepads. December 9th they respond that my tip is being forwarded to their police contact.
Feb 2022: I begin writing Crime & Canvas (officially published October 2022). My goal is a public “audit” of the evidence the system has ignored for decades.
Nov 4, 2025: Anthony Amore releases The Rembrandt Heist: His most recent work, doubling down on historical thefts.
Dec 1, 2025: A formal Legal Inquiry is sent for Breach of Fiduciary Duty. If the Board is suppressing evidence to protect a billionaire donor, the Trust is forfeited to Harvard.
SOLVES
Possibly at Least 9 Art Crimes Solved
April 1972 – Woolworth House, Maine
Sept 4, 1972 – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada – Rembrandt
Memorial Day 1974 – Woolworth House Estate, Maine – The Wyeths
April 14, 1975 – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – Rembrandt
Dec 24, 1978 – de Young Museum, San Francisco – Rembrandt
March 18, 1990 – ISGM, Boston – Rembrandts & Vermeer
Sept 9, 1990 – Houghton Hall, UK – The White Duck
Oct 7, 1991 – James Bourlet & Sons Warehouse Fire, UK (13 days after the murder of Donati)
Nov 2000 – Cambridge University, UK – Darwin Notebooks
