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Fla. Man Pleads Guilty in NY in Dinosaur Dispute

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A Florida fossils dealer pleaded guilty to smuggling charges Thursday and agreed to give up a celebrated $1 million dinosaur skeleton seized by the U.S. government earlier this year for its eventual return to Mongolia. Eric Prokopi, 38, said he would surrender the 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton known as "Ty" and give up any claims to six other dinosaurs and various other bones in a cooperation deal that might win him leniency from charges that carry a potential prison sentence of up to 17 years. Assistant U.S. Attorney Martin S. Bell read a list of the dinosaurs to Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis, saying a second substantially complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton was found at Prokopi's Gainesville, Fla. , home, while a third was believed to be in Great Britain.

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-0.0972632Eric Prokopi, 38, said he would surrender the 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton known as "Ty" ...
-0.22538Prokopi defended his handling of the dinosaur, saying the value of the bones was labeled much lower than the eventual auction price because "it was loose, mostly broken bones and rocks with embedded bones. It was not what you see today, a virtually complete, mounted skeleton."
0.514284"Well, apparently," Prokopi said, ...
-0.0392994Prokopi said the labeling of the relics was purposefully "vague and misleading so that they didn't bring attention to the shipment."
0"Probably nothing," Prokopi said, ...
-0.030876"Probably nothing," Prokopi said, pausing and then adding, "or it may not have been allowed to be imported."
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0"It's among the larger dinosaur shopping lists you'll see today," Bell told ...
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Region: Great Britain

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Country: Mongolia

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Organization: U.S. government

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