Alvin Bragg is the 37th District Attorney elected in Manhattan. Alvin – a lifelong Manhattanite who served as a state and federal prosecutor – has spent more than two decades fighting to make our communities safer and our criminal justice system fairer.
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D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of 13 Antiquities To The People Of Egypt
“Despite our significant progress dismantling these extensive trafficking networks, there is clearly still more work to do. Museums and galleries in Manhattan should not be filled with looting or stolen cultural artifacts,” said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
NYC subway stabbing victim disarmed suspect during ‘horrifying’ attack: DA
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Seventeen rare books that were stolen from John Hay Whitney’s home on Long Island in the 1980s, valued at over $2 million, have been recovered and returned, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Monday.
Stolen rare books returned to Whitney heirs decades after theft
A collection of stolen rare books worth millions of dollars, including letters by John Keats and works by Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, is being returned to its owners’ heirs decades after being taken from a New York home. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg handed the 17 works, including a bound collection of Keats’ love letters to his fiancée Fanny Brawne, to the family of John Hay Whitney and Betsey Whitney at an event on Monday.
Plot twist: Rare books worth $3 million stolen decades ago resurface in Manhattan
More than two dozen rare books — including a bound collection of love letters by poet John Keats — were stolen at some point between 1982 and 1989 from the Long Island estate of John Hay Whitney, a wealthy New York publisher who once served as president of the Museum of Modern Art.
Rare books worth millions swiped from NYC royalty miraculously found after 40 years
A stack of rare books worth millions of dollars was finally returned to the heirs of New York City royalty Monday — decades after they were snatched by a mysterious bookworm, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found
In early July 1819, John Keats sat down to write the first of his nearly 40 impassioned and now celebrated letters to Fanny Brawne, the love of his life.
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