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A Timeline of Art and Artifacts Repatriated in 2025 
February 18: The Manhattan District Attorney’s office repatriated 107 antiquities to Italy, valued around $1.2 million, recovered from antiquities smugglers Giacomo Medici, Giovanni Franco Becchina, and Robert Hecht. “Italy has unfortunately suffered significant and extensive looting over the past 60 years, and we will continue to do everything possible track down and return pieces that pass through Manhattan,” D.A. Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. said in a statement.
Lower East Side man indicted for brutal killing, dismembering of roommate
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Christian Millet, 23, fatally stabbed Edwin Echevarria, 65, with a homemade ice pick. Bragg said Millet lived with Echevarria — who was Millet's grandmother’s ex-boyfriend — and attacked him while he was on the phone.
New program aims to help New Yorkers navigate court complexities
Inside Manhattan’s criminal courthouse, an experiment of sorts is now underway, a unique collaboration between the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and The Fortune Society.
‘Monster’ Manhattan building super hit with 22 years for rape, torture of housecleaner
A woman raped and tortured for six years by a Manhattan superintendent who hired her to clean apartments in a building he managed slammed the ex-boss as a “horrible monster” ahead of his sentencing Monday to 22 years in prison.
NYC maid collapses in court as her impact statement is read about ‘evil monster’ who raped her
A Manhattan maid who was repeatedly raped by a sicko building superintendent fainted in court Monday as a prosecutor read her excruciating victim-impact statement about the “monster.”
Utah Man Who Thought He Was ‘Hitler Reincarnated’ Charged with Hate Crimes for Threatening N.Y.C. Synagogue
A man was charged with terrorism charges on Thursday, March 6, after making terroristic threats against a Manhattan synagogue, according to ABC 7, The New York Post and The Times of Israel.
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