Three retired Brooklyn judges and more than 20 attorneys asked for leniency for a disgraced former jurist set to be sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court for obstructing an investigation into corruption at the state’s largest credit union.
In the period between her indictment and conviction, Ash was suspended from judicial duties, but still raked in her $210,000 salary, a state courts spokesman confirmed to the Daily News.
A federal jury on Monday convicted a Brooklyn state judge of obstructing the Manhattan U.S. attorney's probe of Kam Wong, the incarcerated former Municipal Credit Union CEO with whom she was friendly while she served on the lender's board.