Scarpa has been practicing law since 1982, and he worked as a prosecutor at three district attorneys’ offices in the New York metropolitan area before entering private practice in 2003, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s news release, which also said that Scarpa will be disbarred. Newsday reported in May that Amon ordered Scarpa to stop practicing law after he was found guilty by a jury that month of conspiring to bribe a witness to lie.
It was proved during Scarpa’s four-day federal trial in May that the criminal defense attorney had plotted with co-conspirator Charles Gallman, who, according to a New York Times report, was a five-time felon with a decadeslong criminal history, to bribe convicted murderer Luis Cherry to testify in support of Scarpa’s client, Ross, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Despite Cherry reportedly lying on the stand and saying he had committed the accomplice murder alone, the client, Ross, was convicted in state court of that murder, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in the release. The office also said that Ross was convicted of the other, unrelated killing during his double homicide trial.
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