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Judge awards nearly $1M in Muttontown slave case

A federal judge Friday awarded two domestic workers who were enslaved and tortured by a wealthy Muttowntown couple nearly $1 million in back wages.

The workers are entitled to double the amount of unpaid wages they were owed by their employers, Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani, said U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Spatt. The couple was convicted in December of enslaving and torturing the women...

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