A politically connected defendant in a municipal fraud case upstate is alleging that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office broke the law by tipping off the media about a sealed indictment and orchestrating a prejudicial “perp walk.”
Robert Wiesner, the husband of Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, is asking a judge to bar Schneiderman’s office from re-indicting him, largely on the grounds that a press aide to the attorney general sent journalists a written invitation to gather outside the AG’s Rochester office “for the purpose of capturing the walk from our office to the police department.”
