 This redistricting plan led to the election of Grace Meng, the first Asian American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.AALDEF won $400,000 for small businesses in Manhattan's Chinatown in 2012, after the New York City Department of Finance wrongfully charged property owners thousands of dollars in Business Improvement District fees.In 2012, AALDEF won a $1.2 million judgment in a human trafficking civil suit on behalf of a Filipina domestic worker subjected to involuntary servitude and forced labor in Rhode Island.