Hours of conversations and hundreds of text messages in Yiddish have stalled the federal corruption trial of state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Hollis), former Bayside Councilman Daniel Halloran and the ex-vice chairman of the Queens Republican Party, Vincent Tabone.
Attorneys representing the Queens trio, who are charged with participating in Smith’s alleged scheme to bribe his way onto the GOP line for the 2013 mayoral election, have urged the judge to dismiss the indictments and call a mistrial because they say the government did not turn over Yiddish conversations quickly enough for them to prepare for proceedings.
Judge Kenneth Karas instructed prosecutors and defense attorneys to submit documents detailing their arguments over the weekend and planned to resolve the dispute during a Monday conference in federal court in White Plains, according to Herb Hadad, a spokesman for prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Hadad said the judge intended to call the jury back Tuesday and inquire whether the jurors could remain in court past June, when he had initially planned to wrap up the trial.
Karas then will decide how to proceed.
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Wipe those smirks off your face, you pieces of trash!
They're most likely going to get off....most corrupt politicians do.
Sei gezunt.
"They're most likely going to get off....most corrupt politicians do."
Like Seminerio, McLaughlin, Kruger, etc.
The trial of crook and corrupt politicians, Jamaica’s own Senator Malcolm Smith and former Councilman Dan Halloran has been a three ring circus from the get go with Halloran stating that he had a benign brain tumor from last year and his attorney wanting to claim insanity to this new revelation that moves into Yeddish crap due to some tapes that may or may not have anything to do with the case being in Yeddish and the need to be translated or a possible mistrial could take place.
What a bunch of Yiddish Crap. The defense knew this going in, why did they wait so long. And isn’t this stretching things with a “mistrial"?
A young black men selling a small amount of pot can go to jail for years.
These elected clowns steal, cheat, and every other thing and they get to play by a different set of rules like former Senator Shirley Huntley. She steals $87,000 of tax payers money and only serves 10 months on a meager 1 year sentence in some country club prison and then gets a coming home party by the asshole Rev. Charles Norris Sr.
A bunch of Yeddish Bullshit!
OY VEY!
Looks like the US Attorney screwed this easy case up by not turning over necessary discovery ahead of the trial. How can a mistrial not be declared? The defendants (no matter how corrupt) are entitled to all of the evidence to be used against them. This doesn't pass the smell test.
I guess prosecutorial ineptitude isn't confined to local district attorneys. "Bring in the Feds!" Never mind....
Yiddish my foot! Bet the grammar sucks. Guy wasn't even a real rabbi. Ignorant media and prosecutors never respect the truth, so they fall for phoneys.
MISTRIAL
just in time for H.R.C. to get the entire town (TOWN SQUARE N.Y.) to vote for her female presidency.like they did in the N.Y.Senatorial election.
PARDON...PARDON...PARDON
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