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Residents get $5M back from shady contractors, others

The city's Department of Consumer Affairs secured more than $5 million in restitution for wary New Yorkers who were harassed or left in a lurch last year. DCA says it received more than 6,000 complaints

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Mar 4, 2008, 6:47 PM

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