July 22, 2022
A Rochester real estate mogul received a no-prison sentence Friday as Western New York's top federal judge bemoaned the collapse of the once-sweeping $500 million fraud case amid accusations of prosecutorial misconduct.
April 22, 2022
A New York federal judge in Rochester may launch her own inquiry into government misconduct in a $500 million fraud prosecution after the U.S. attorney's office settled the fraught case to avoid further scrutiny.
April 12, 2022
A sweeping $500 million real estate fraud case ended with a series of minor plea deals involving just a few thousand dollars Tuesday, as New York federal prosecutors tossed their 114-count indictment rather than submit to a potentially embarrassing evidentiary hearing into their own alleged misconduct.
April 05, 2022
Western New York federal prosecutors cut lenient plea deals with a trio of real estate fraud defendants just minutes before an evidentiary hearing Monday morning would have put the government in the hot seat to answer for discovery failures in the $500 million case.
January 25, 2022
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.
January 24, 2022
A New York landlord who dodged charges in a $500 million fraud scheme cannot be allowed to flip the script on prosecutors with an "overbroad and far-reaching" probe into discovery missteps that doomed the initial case, the government told a New York judge Friday.
January 19, 2022
The New York landlord who dodged a $500 million fraud indictment over prosecutorial missteps said Tuesday he wants to see the government's case emails and question prosecutors in a proposed evidentiary hearing aimed at tossing a subsequent indictment.
January 10, 2022
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.