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2024-09-25 Government Corruption
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NY Politics: Ex-NYS judge, prosecutor kills himself after shootout with FBI agents who arrived to arrest him on corruption charges: report
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[NY Post] A retired upstate New York county judge and former prosecutor allegedly shot himself to death Tuesday morning as FBI agents moved in to arrest him on corruption charges, according to reports.
Stewart Rosenwasser, who has been embroiled in a sordid federal bribery scandal, allegedly opened fire on the agents as they approached his Orange County home before his death by apparent suicide shortly after 9:30 am, the Albany Times-Union reported Tuesday.
Sources told The Post that an indictment naming Rosenwasser was handed down this week.
"As this is an ongoing matter, we have no further details to provide," the statement said.
Rosenwasser was accused of pocketing $63,000 in bribes from Mout’z Soudani, who was the victim in an embezzlement case he prosecuted in 2022, the outlet said.
The feds allege Rosenwasser accepted the bribes to investigate and prosecute two relatives of Soudani who were involved in the $1.9 million embezzlement case — and later pleaded guilty to grand larceny.
The two — nephew Martin Soudani and his sister Eman Soudani — filed a $22.5 million lawsuit to have the convictions overturned, claiming the case was tainted by the bribes.
In court filings in the lawsuit reviewed by the Times-Union, the alleged bribery scheme "may present the most blatant example of prosecutorial corruption and fraud in the annals of New York case law."
In an email to The Post on Tuesday, Rosenwasser’s son, Jason, asked for privacy for the family but cast doubt on reports that his dad committed suicide.
"The only thing I feel compelled to point out is that the local news headlines are reporting that my father fatally shot himself while also reporting in the same article that the FBI field office issued a statement calling it an agent involved shooting," he wrote.
The scandal, which saw the feds raid his home in July, forced him to resign from the DA’s Office. 
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