September 11, 2017
A Manhattan federal judge refused on Monday to dismiss charges against a union leader accused of taking kickbacks from Platinum Partners LP's founder in exchange for investment business, saying prosecutors could rely on phone calls that were incidentally wiretapped in a separate probe.
August 10, 2017
U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. said Thursday he is unlikely to dismiss fraud charges against hedge fund founder Murray Huberfeld and former union boss Norman Seabrook, putting the case on course for an October trial that will feature a key cooperating witness the defense calls a "one-man crime wave."
January 06, 2017
A New York federal judge on Friday pushed back to October the start of the corruption trial of Platinum Partners co-founder Murray Huberfeld and Norman Seabrook, the former head of the New York City correction officers union, after a trove of evidence was unearthed in a separate investigation of the hedge fund.
July 22, 2016
Money man Murray Huberfeld and former New York City correction officers union President Norman Seabrook denied charges Friday that they engaged in a scheme to direct union investment dollars toward Huberfeld's Platinum Partners LP fund in exchange for kickbacks that flowed back to Seabrook.
July 08, 2016
Two high-ranking New York City cops, a former correction officers' union leader and two businessmen were officially indicted Thursday, charged with corruption crimes that appear to flow from Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's high-profile investigation into public corruption in the city's law-enforcement circles.
June 08, 2016
The founder of a Manhattan hedge fund and the head of New York City's correction officers' union were both arrested on Wednesday and charged with funneling $20 million in union retirement money to the hedge fund in exchange for bribes to the union leader, according to prosecutors.