Three people who were convicted in the Long Island Railroad disability pension scandal have lost their attempt to win a new federal trial on grounds that they were tried in the wrong venue.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed the arguments that the Southern District was the improper venue and that prosecutors engaged in venue manipulation for orthopedic physician Peter Lesniewski, former LIRR conductor Joseph Rutigliano, and former U.S. Railroad Retirement Board employee Marie Baran.
