Advocacy

U.S. Colonel to Lead Antiquities Antitheft Unit

Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has established a task force dedicated to investigating and prosecuting antiquities theft and trafficking. Col. Matthew Bogdanos, who as a Marine reservist led investigations into the looting of the Baghdad Museum and helped recover more than five thousand artifacts, will head the taskforce. Bogdanos is currently assistant district attorney in Manhattan. For more information on his work in Iraq, see the September 2003 CAA News cover story.

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