Eric Goldstein, a former top official with the New York City Department of Education, will be represented by a federal defender in a criminal bribery and extortion case, after a Brooklyn magistrate judge determined he would not be able to afford counsel.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced Wednesday that Goldstein, who headed the city’s Office of School Support Services, was arrested Wednesday morning in an alleged scheme to steer DOE contracts to a company run by his three accused co-defendants in the case.

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