Prosecutors targeting corruption in a minority labor coalition properly obtained a wiretap warrant after presenting evidence that conventional investigative procedures had been tried and were unlikely to succeed, a sharply divided Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
In a 4-3 decision, the Court held that the labor racketeering unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office supported its application for a wiretap by explaining why normal investigative techniques would be ineffective in the probe of P&D Construction Workers Coalition and it did not simply rely on a prior investigation of Akbar’s Community Services, a rival minority labor coalition that was allegedly colluding with P&D.
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