Judge Sylvia Ash Prosecutors Highlight Judge's Ethical Issues as Criminal Obstruction Trial Begins
Defense counsel said the former Brooklyn judge was the victim of a fraudster. But prosecutors said it was wrong for a sitting judge to serve on a credit union board in the first place.
December 01, 2021 at 05:22 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
The trial of Sylvia Ash, a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge accused of obstructing a federal investigation into the state-chartered credit union whose board she used to chair, got underway this week in federal court, as prosecutors highlighted the conflicts and ethical issues underpinning her 2019 indictment.
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