Las autoridades llegaron a la residencia de Rosenwasser en Campbell Hall, Hamptonburgh, para arrestarlo como parte de un caso de corrupción por supuestamente haber aceptado sobornos, dijeron fuentes policiales a ABC News. Al parecer hubo un intercambio de disparos en la casa del sospechoso, según el FBI.
“Yo estaba de pie junto a la puerta principal, mi amigo salió por la puerta principal y nos gritaron que entráramos a la casa”, dijo la vecina Linn Cartagena
“El FBI está revisando un tiroteo en el que participaron agentes que ocurrió esta mañana temprano en Campbell Hall, Nueva York. El FBI se toma en serio todos los incidentes de tiroteos que involucran a nuestros agentes. De acuerdo con la política del FBI, el incidente del tiroteo está bajo revisión por la División de Inspección del FBI. Como se trata de un asunto en curso, no tenemos más detalles que proporcionar”, dijo la agencia que publicó en un comunicado.
Los fiscales federales del Distrito Sur de Nueva York se negaron a hacer comentarios. Rosenwasser renunció a la oficina del fiscal de distrito del condado Orange en junio.
Había sido acusado de abuso de autoridad en ese cargo como sospechoso de aceptar $63,000 dólares en pagos de sobornos para investigar y procesar a dos personas emparentadas con el hombre que supuestamente le pagó, Mout’z Soudani, detalló Daily News.
Ex-NYS judge, prosecutor kills himself after shootout with FBI agents who arrived to arrest him on corruption charges: report
A retired upstate New York judge and former prosecutor allegedly shot himself to death Tuesday morning in a shootout with FBI agents trying to bust him on bribery and corruption charges, according to sources.
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, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The FBI said in a statement that the agency is reviewing the incident at the Campbell Hall home, noting that it is being investigated by the Inspection Division, as is typically the case in agent-involved shootings.
“As this is an ongoing matter, we have no further details to provide,” the statement said.
The exchange of gunfire came one day after a federal grand jury voted to indict Rosenwasser for allegedly taking $63,000 in payoffs to rig a case on behalf of an old pal who claimed he was embezzled by relatives.
According to the 43-page indictment, Rosenwasser and millionaire businessman Mout’z Soudani conspired to build a case against Soudani’s sister and nephew and recoup the allegedly stolen cash.
“Any progress iam anxious thanks,” Soudani, who was also named in the indictment, texted Rosenwasser on Nov. 18, 2022, the document said.
“Waiting to talk to investigator,” the prosecutor allegedly replied. “Should know something today.
“Believe me. I’m putting maximum effort into this,” he added, according to the document. “We will utilize all available assets.”
Federal prosecutors said the two later tried to hide their illicit exchanges, with Rosenwasser allegedly texting his cohort on Jan. 23, 2023, “We must stop creating test [sic] messages. Period.”
The plot targeted Martin Soudani and his mother, Eman Soudani, who were allegedly involved in embezzling $1.6 million from Mout’z Soudani, a wealthy former restaurateur, the indictment said.
On March 8, 2023, Rosenwasser, as an Orange County assistant district attorney, charged Soudani’s kin with grand larceny for allegedly stealing the money from Mout’z Soudani and had arrest warrants issued.
When they appeared in court, defense lawyers asked that Rosenwasser recuse himself from prosecuting the case because he had represented Mout’z Soudani in the 1990s and that presented a conflict of interest.
Rosenwasser denied the claim and remained on the case.
But by June 2023 the DA’s office was getting wise and Rosewasser was replaced on the case, the indictment said.
By March 2024, the case against Soudani’s sister had been dropped and his nephew agreed to plead guilty to grand larceny in the embezzlement case in exchange for a prison sentence of one to seven years.
Martin Soudani and Eman Soudani later filed a $22.5 million lawsuit claiming the cases against them were tainted.
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.”
Meanwhile, Rosenweiss resigned from the DAs office earlier this year as the investigation intensified — ending with this week’s indictment.
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.
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