Beverly Hills Auctioneer Charged In Rhinoceros Horn Smuggling Conspiracy (United States Attorney`s Office for the Southern District of New York)
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(Source: United States Attorney`s Office for the Southern District of New York) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jeffery Wood, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice`s Environment and Natural Resources Division, and Jim Kurth, Acting Director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announced that JACOB CHAIT, the head of acquisitions and the auctioneer of a Beverly Hills, California gallery and auction house (`Auction House #1`), was presented yesterday in U.S. Magistrate`s Court in Manhattan on a one-count Indictment charging a conspiracy to smuggle rhinoceros horns and violate the Lacey Act. The Indictment was...