Tara Lenich, who admitted to forging judicial orders to run illegal wiretaps on a fellow prosecutor and a New York City police detective, was sentenced to one year in prison early in 2018.
A civil lawsuit by the target of now-disbarred former Brooklyn state prosecutor Tara Lenich’s illegal wiretapping against government officials will proceed under federal Electronic Communication Privacy Act and Section 1983 municipal liability claims, along with a number of state claims, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York ruled.
While Garaufis’ ruling is a clear win in the individual suit by former assistant DA Stephanie Rosenfeld, attorneys involved in both Rosenfeld’s action and a parallel class action brought by those illegally surveilled by Lenich see the ruling as having a broader impact.
