Judge Schedules Retrial for Former Senate Leader
The Associated Press - May 30, 2012
A federal judge has set Feb. 4, 2013, in Albany to start the retrial of former New York Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno on fraud charges and imposed a gag order on the lawyers. Northern District Judge Gary Sharpe said yesterday the case will be tried in court, not the press, while acknowledging he imposed the same rule at the 2009 trial, where Bruno himself held daily press conferences on the courthouse steps to say he was innocent while his lawyers stood quietly by. The retired 83-year-old has remained free while the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned his two convictions for so-called "honest services fraud," citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in another case that such convictions must show direct bribes or kickbacks (NYLJ, Nov. 17, 2011). Bruno was once one of the three most powerful officials in state government.
Why haven't others been charged?
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Why hasn't Silver been charged with similar conduct?
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Will Jonathan Lippman testify as a US undercover rat!
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ReplyDeleteAfter I testified against a bad judge, a group of federal judges wrote anonymous, crank letters to my ex-girlfriend and framed me for it. They forced me to misrepresented by a state police lawyer who was also a FBI informant, Ed Roy of RI. Roy would not allow analyses of the fingerprints and DNA deposited on the anonymous letters, and later bragged that he'd been promised a RI judgeship. All of my court files were criminally altered and evidence counterfeited. I was never allowed to defend or be heard in any form. The ACLU calls me a political prisoner. The crooked judges included Joseph A. DiClerico Jr., William E. Smith, Joseph E. Irenas, Paul S. Diamond, Michael Boudin and Ronald R. Lagueux. I am now expelled from RI and living in protective custody at a NJ motel with my rent paid by U.S. Probation.
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