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Antiquities Valued at More Than $20 Million Returned to Greece 
The 55 items seized by the Manhattan district attorney’s office are thought to have been stolen from archaeological sites and illegally brought into the United States.
U.S. Task Force Prosecutes Highest Amount of Anti-Asian Crimes Since Inception
In New York, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said his office's Hate Crimes Unit is prosecuting more hate crimes involving anti-Asian incidents than it has since the task force launched more than a decade ago. Bragg's announcement came as the prosecutor introduced murder charges against an individual who allegedly attacked a man in East Harlem last spring "for no other reason than his race," causing injuries that ultimately resulted in the man's death.
Man faces murder as a hate crime charge after ‘devastating’ attack on Asian immigrant in NYC
A man who allegedly assaulted a Chinese immigrant in New York City last year has been charged with murder in the second degree as a hate crime, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Thursday. Jarrod Powell allegedly approached 61-year-old Yao Pan Ma from behind as the man collected cans at an East Harlem corner, struck him and kicked him in the head multiple times in April 2021, according to police. Ma died of his injuries eight months later.
NYC husband and wife busted for alleged sex-trafficking operation
A married couple was accused Wednesday of trafficking several women for sex in New York City, including two victims who were placed in the wife’s foster care and later pimped out by her husband, prosecutors alleged.
Couple Accused of Using Foster Care System for Sex Trafficking Scheme
Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s human trafficking unit said that Mr. Mitchell, a registered sex offender, had run the sex trafficking operation between November 2018 and February 2022. He recruited women through social media and then used physical and verbal abuse to coerce them into prostitution in cars and hotels in Manhattan, as well as in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, the authorities said.
NYC DA charges construction policy insurance broker, $350K theft, fraud
The Manhattan District Attorney's office on Tuesday announced charges against a New York insurance broker who allegedly stole $350,000 of insurance premium payments from a construction company client, leaving the contractor uninsured for years while it performed work on multiple projects in Manhattan.
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