Cyrus Vance

A prominent U.S. art collector and billionaire philanthropist has returned 180 works of art and antiquities stolen from around the world -- some from ancient Greece -- that are estimated to be worth $70 million, Justice Department officials in New York said on Dec. 6.

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein was indicted on May 30 on charges of rape and a criminal sexual act, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said, the first case to emerge from a slew of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who passed away on May 26, 2017 at the age of 89, was one of the U.S.'s most highly praised foreign and security policy gurus of the past half-century.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office on Friday announced the return of a fragment of an ancient marble sarcophagus fragment to Greece.
As part of a continuing investigation with partners in international law enforcement, the DA’s office went into a gallery in Midtown Manhattan with a search warrant and seized the fragment, which was on display as a centerpiece.

In an interview with Alexis Tsipras back in 2012, I had asked him who he'd call first if he were prime minister and had learned of a serious incident in the Aegean. It was obvious that he hadn't given much thought to the scenario but he said, "Mr Erdogan, of course," in reference to the then Turkish prime minister and now president.