By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-24 21:46:05 | Updated at 2024-09-30 19:30:41
5 days ago
Ex-NYS judge, prosecutor apparently kills himself as FBI arrives to arrest him on corruption charges: report
NY Post ^ | 9/24/24 | Joe Marino, Reuven Fenton, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Posted on 09/24/2024 2:35:03 PM PDT by Libloather
A retired upstate New York county judge and former prosecutor allegedly shot himself to death Tuesday morning as FBI agents moved in to arrest him on corruption charges, according to reports.
Stewart Rosenwasser, who has been embroiled in a sordid federal bribery scandal, allegedly opened fire on the agents as they approached his Orange County home before his death by apparent suicide shortly after 9:30 am, the Albany Times-Union reported Tuesday.
Sources told The Post that an indictment naming Rosenwasser was handed down this week.
The FBI said in a statement that the agency is reviewing the incident at the Campbell Hall home, noting that it is being investigated by the Inspection Division, as is typically the case in agent-involved shootings.
“As this is an ongoing matter, we have no further details to provide,” the statement said.
Rosenwasser was accused of pocketing $63,000 in bribes from Mout’z Soudani, who was the victim in an embezzlement case he prosecuted in 2022, the outlet said.
The feds allege Rosenwasser accepted the bribes to investigate and prosecute two relatives of Soudani who were involved in the $1.9 million embezzlement case — and later pleaded guilty to grand larceny.
The two — nephew Martin Soudani and his sister Eman Soudani — filed a $22.5 million lawsuit to have the convictions overturned, claiming the case was tainted by the bribes.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: corruption; fbi; judge; ny
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I wonder if the FIB knows that Brandon took million$ in chicom bribes.
1 posted on 09/24/2024 2:35:03 PM PDT by Libloather
To: Libloather
2 posted on 09/24/2024 2:35:52 PM PDT by xoxox
To: Libloather
Who took what?.........crickets....
3 posted on 09/24/2024 2:36:49 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: xoxox
thanks for saving me from having to say it
4 posted on 09/24/2024 2:37:00 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
To: xoxox
t is being investigated by the Inspection Division, as is typically the case in agent-involved shootings.
"cleanup op."
First thing I thought, too. derpstate is eradicating loose ends. "Suicide". Sure.
5 posted on 09/24/2024 2:37:49 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: Libloather
6 posted on 09/24/2024 2:39:06 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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