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Ex-Party Producer Charged in $2.7 Million Bitcoin-Laundering Scheme 
Dark-web drug dealers selling ketamine, MDMA and counterfeit Xanax in every state in America. An identity thief hacking into his targets’ cellphones. A member of an Eastern European organized crime syndicate. These, prosecutors said, were just some of the customers of Thomas Spieker, a former party producer who was charged on Thursday in state court in Manhattan with laundering more than $2.3 million in Bitcoin for criminals around the world from 2018 to 2021.
Upper East Side PTA treasurer busted for embezzling $185,000 for luxury lifestyle
An Upper East Side PTA treasurer with a checkered past funded lavish trips to St. Lucia and Bermuda and a luxe lifestyle with $185,000 he embezzled from the children’s school fund, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Tuesday
Artifacts seized from U.S. billionaire returned to Israel
Prosecutors in New York announced the repatriation Tuesday of $5 million worth of looted antiquities seized from billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt to Israel, where Steinhardt is well known as a patron of cultural institutions. The 39 items being returned to Israel include two gold masks dating from about 5000 B.C. that are valued at $500,000 and a set of three death masks that date from 6000 to 7000 B.C. and are worth a total of $650,000, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said.
Bragg Creates New Division to Use Alternatives to Prison Across Manhattan DA’s Office
Bragg said its creation is to further use diversion and evidence-based programming to "ensure individuals involved in the criminal justice system receive necessary services to reduce recidivism and enhance public safety."
Community group partners with government officials for gun buyback program in Washington Heights
"Every gun off the street is potentially a life saved and there are approximately fifty guns off the street today, so I feel encouraged," said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
NYPD sergeant who said he didn’t care if a suspect could breathe pleads guilty
An NYPD sergeant pleaded guilty to attacking a man in a holding cell and violently arresting another man in a subway station. Phillip Wong, 37, originally pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault and attempted assault charges. But on Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Wong had pleaded guilty to assault and attempted assault, both in the third degree.
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