USA v. Morgan et al
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July 22, 2022
NY Landlord Ducks Jail After $500M Fraud Case Implodes
A Rochester real estate mogul received a no-prison sentence Friday as Western New York's top federal judge bemoaned the collapse of the once-sweeping $500 million fraud case amid accusations of prosecutorial misconduct.
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April 22, 2022
NY Court May Probe Botched $500M Fraud Case Despite Pleas
A New York federal judge in Rochester may launch her own inquiry into government misconduct in a $500 million fraud prosecution after the U.S. attorney's office settled the fraught case to avoid further scrutiny.
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April 12, 2022
NY Feds Drop $500M Fraud Case, Avoiding Misconduct Probe
A sweeping $500 million real estate fraud case ended with a series of minor plea deals involving just a few thousand dollars Tuesday, as New York federal prosecutors tossed their 114-count indictment rather than submit to a potentially embarrassing evidentiary hearing into their own alleged misconduct.
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April 05, 2022
Pleas Delay Probe Of Gov't Missteps In $500M Fraud Case
Western New York federal prosecutors cut lenient plea deals with a trio of real estate fraud defendants just minutes before an evidentiary hearing Monday morning would have put the government in the hot seat to answer for discovery failures in the $500 million case.
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January 25, 2022
NY Prosecutors Face Rare Probe Of 'Missteps' In $500M Case
The Western New York federal prosecutor's office will spend the better part of a week under the microscope this spring, after a judge took the rare step Tuesday of ordering an evidentiary hearing into whether the government intentionally misled the court about errors that doomed a $500 million real estate fraud case.
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January 24, 2022
Feds Fight 'Overbroad' Probe Into Botched $500M Fraud Case
A New York landlord who dodged charges in a $500 million fraud scheme cannot be allowed to flip the script on prosecutors with an "overbroad and far-reaching" probe into discovery missteps that doomed the initial case, the government told a New York judge Friday.
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January 19, 2022
Landlord Who Dodged $500M Fraud Rap Wants Feds Probed
The New York landlord who dodged a $500 million fraud indictment over prosecutorial missteps said Tuesday he wants to see the government's case emails and question prosecutors in a proposed evidentiary hearing aimed at tossing a subsequent indictment.
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January 10, 2022
WDNY Judge Fumes At Feds' Missteps In $500M Fraud Case
A federal judge couldn't contain her frustration with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York on Monday after prosecutorial missteps that doomed the district's first case against an alleged $500 million real estate fraudster threatened the government's subsequent indictment.