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What do the stolen love letters of John Keats have to do with homicide on the streets of New York? Both crimes fall under the remit of Manhattan assistant district attorney Matthew Bogdanos.
A retired Marine colonel with both law and classics degrees, he has been the head of New York city鈥檚 Antiques Trafficking Unit since its creation in 2017. In less than a decade, the unit has seized more than six thousand pieces of looted antiquities from various museums, art galleries and grand apartments with the aim of returning them to their country of origin. His passion for prosecuting cultural vandalism has rattled many of the collectors, curators and dealers in one of the largest art markets in the world.
In this Crossing Continents, Sandra Kanthal travels to New York to learn more about this unique unit of law enforcement, and what makes one may so passionate about the need to track down stolen treasures of the art world and return them to their rightful owners.