US antiques dealers plead guilty to selling modern elephant ivory objects

Two New York antiques dealers, owners of an upmarket Manhattan antiques shop, yesterday pleaded guilty to selling modern ivory objects and uncarved elephant tusks worth more than $4.5m.

Brothers Irving and Samuel Morano, owners of Metropolitan Fine Arts and Antiques, had been the subje…

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