Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Assembly Speaker’s Fraud Trial Begins
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A federal fraud trial began in New York for the Speaker of the New York state Assembly and his top aide. Prosecutors charge Speaker Mel Miller cheated his law firm’s clients out of thousands of dollars in shady real estate deals. His lawyer argued prosecutors targeted Miller because of his high political profile and then went looking for a crime and evidence to back it. Success for the prosecution depends upon whether the jury believes its key witness, Avi Cohen, an admitted con-man.
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