US - The judge who accepted the guilty plea of former New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi has transferred the pension-fund corruption case to another judge for sentencing, after refusing to withdraw because of an alleged conflict of interest.
State Supreme Court Justice Lewis Bart Stone, who was scheduled to sentence Hevesi yesterday, denied a motion requesting his withdrawal over the accusation of a conflict involving a relationship wi...
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