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Vol. 30, Issue 50 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN December 13-19, 2019
Senator Zellnor Myrie and NYS Assembly Member Diana Richardson.
Photo by Trey Pentecost
By Nelson A. King
Brooklyn legislators Assemblywoman
Diana Richardson
and Sen. Zellnor Myrie who
were expected to collaborate at
an event this Saturday, Dec. 14,
with New York State Attorney
General, Letitia James in raising
awareness about rampant
deed theft in Brooklyn will now
do so on a new date tentatively
scheduled for Jan. 11.
“Our homes are being targeted
by scammers, but we
are fighting back,” said Richardson,
representative for the
43rd Assembly District that
encompasses Crown Heights
in Brooklyn, in an email to
constituents.
She said she, Myrie, James
and community leaders will
“conduct on-the-ground out-
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By Bert Wilkinson
With the 2019 murder rate
topping a staggering 500 for
the second consecutive year,
security officials in Trinidad
have in the past week taken
two major steps to reduce violent
and organized crime, outlawing
the current $100 bill
and hiring a former FBI officer
to help them reduce gangland
violence.
The central bank has given
locals up to the end of this
year to dispose of hundreds of
millions of $100 bills in circulation
and exchange them for a
new tender with modern security
features.
The move, said Trinidad and
Tobago’s Minister of Security,
Stuart Young, is primarily
designed to fight money laun-
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Brooklyn polititians raise
awareness about deed theft
CRIME
FIGHT
MOVE
Confusion as TT outlaws $100
notes to minimize laundering
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