March 28, 2016
In a recent criminal case in New York County in which I was involved, the District Attorney’s Office charged one of the defendants with 106 counts – 105 felonies and one misdemeanor (two other defendants were charged with over 100 counts each). The case was a complex fraud case and the prosecution charged violations of five different statutes: (1) scheme to defraud in the first degree (one count), (2) grand larceny in the first degree (15 counts), (3) falsifying business records in the first degree (88 counts), (4) the Martin Act (the New York securities fraud statute) (one count), and (5) conspiracy in the fifth degree (one count – a misdemeanor). [...]