The Western New York federal prosecutor's office will spend the better part of a week under the microscope this spring, after a judge took the rare step Tuesday of ordering an evidentiary hearing into whether the government intentionally misled the court about errors that doomed a $500 million real estate fraud case.
The Western New York federal prosecutor's office will spend the better part of a week under the microscope this spring, after a judge took the rare step Tuesday of ordering an evidentiary hearing into whether the government intentionally misled the court about errors that doomed a $500 million real estate fraud case.
A fired K&L Gates partner criminally charged with mounting a nearly two-year harassment campaign against colleagues asked a New York federal judge Monday to remove his ankle monitor, claiming the bulky device caused him to develop a hernia.
A federal judge couldn't contain her frustration with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York on Monday after prosecutorial missteps that doomed the district's first case against an alleged $500 million real estate fraudster threatened the government's subsequent indictment.
A federal judge couldn't contain her frustration with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York on Monday after prosecutorial missteps that doomed the district's first case against an alleged $500 million real estate fraudster threatened the government's subsequent indictment.