New York, NY - Cabbie That Returned $1M In Jewelry, Is Honored

New York, NY - Last August, A City taxi driver Hossam Abdalla has found in his cab a case that contained nearly a million dollars' worth of gold, diamonds and titanium, and he soon start working on getting it back to the Jewish jeweler from Montreal who left it in the taxi.

Now Abdalla was named New York's cab driver of the year, at a Taxi and Limousine Commission ceremony. "Honesty for me is everything," says the Egyptian immigrant who's been driving since 1999.

Most of the drivers honored were recognized for returning lost property. One of them returned a camcorder and videotape documenting a child's recovery from cancer.