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USA v. Seabrook et al

  1. November 13, 2023

    Union Head Can't Get New Bribery Trial Over Judge's Conflicts

    The Second Circuit saw no merit Monday in claims by the former leader of New York City's largest correction officers union that his attorney in a bribery case was ineffective because they didn't discuss the district judge's potential conflicts of interest before trial.

  2. February 24, 2023

    Ex-Prison Guard Union Boss' Sentence Cut In Bribery Case

    A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that a former boss in New York City's largest correction officers union should have his bribery sentence reduced and be released from prison due to the disparities in his sentence and that given to his co-defendants.

  3. June 22, 2021

    Platinum's Huberfeld Gets Short Prison Term In Bribery Case

    A federal judge hit Platinum Partners co-founder Murray Huberfeld with seven months in prison Tuesday for helping paper over a $60,000 bribe at the heart of a probe by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office that put former New York City labor boss Norman Seabrook behind bars.

  4. June 19, 2020

    Ex-Union Leader To Appeal For New Trial In Bribery Case

    Former jail union leader Norman Seabrook told a New York federal court Friday that he will appeal its decision to deny him a new trial over what he says is a wrongful conviction for accepting bribes to invest $20 million in union capital in a failing hedge fund.

  5. February 12, 2019

    Platinum's Huberfeld Gets 2.5 Years In Bribery Case

    A Manhattan federal judge came down hard on Platinum Partners co-founder Murray Huberfeld on Tuesday, sentencing him to 2 1/2 years in prison and $19 million in restitution despite a life of good works that prosecutors said qualified him for just a year behind bars.

  6. February 08, 2019

    Ex-Union Boss Gets 58 Months For Taking Hedge Fund Bribes

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced former labor boss Norman Seabrook to 58 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for moving $20 million of union capital into a hedge fund that later went belly-up, calling his conduct a crime of hubris.

  7. February 05, 2019

    Ex-Union Leader Deserves 5 Years For Bribery, US Says

    Norman Seabrook, the former labor boss found by a jury to have steered $20 million in union cash into a disastrous hedge fund investment for $60,000 of bribe money, deserves more than five years in prison, prosecutors told a Manhattan federal judge on Monday.

  8. January 25, 2019

    Feds Want 1 Year, $7M From Platinum Partners Founder

    Prosecutors have asked a New York federal court to give Murray Huberfeld, a founder of the Platinum Partners hedge fund who pled guilty to fraud in bribing union head Norman Seabrook to invest in the fund, a sentence of one year in jail and $7 million in restitution.

  9. August 15, 2018

    Ex-Union Leader Guilty Of Taking Bribe From Hedge Fund

    A Manhattan jury convicted Norman Seabrook of bribery Wednesday, finding the once-powerful head of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association favored now-bankrupt hedge fund Platinum Partners with $20 million of union capital in exchange for a man-purse stuffed with $60,000 in cash.

  10. August 14, 2018

    You Can't Deadlock In 3 Hours, NY Judge Tells Bribery Jury

    A Manhattan federal judge told jurors mulling fraud and conspiracy counts against Norman Seabrook, the former labor boss accused of steering $20 million in union money to a hedge fund in exchange for a $60,000 bribe, to go back to work Tuesday after they quickly said they were unanimous on one charge but deadlocked on the other.

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