U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is, of course, prosecuting Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver on federal corruption charges. He's also going after the former Assembly speaker's son-in-law. Yesterday, 37-year-old Marcello Trebitsch was arrested and accused of defrauding investors of $7...
A federal judge on Friday declined to dismiss corruption charges against Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver but scolded U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara over statements he made before and following the former Assembly Speaker's arrest.
Silver, who was forced to...
Last month, Assemblyman Sheldon Silver asked a federal judge to dismiss his three-count indictment on corruption charges due to statements made about the case by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Now the U.S. attorneys office has responded in a 24-page...
