The Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice indicted by a Federal grand jury for allegedly covering up the theft of millions of dollars from the Municipal Credit Union was actually a “fugitive for a day” and her defense counsel might be “implicated” in her crimes, prosecutors told Judge Lewis A. Kaplan at a Nov. 4 hearing.
On Oct.11, FBI agents arrested Sylvia G. Ash at La Guardia Airport, on her way back from Miami. She was charged with obstructing the criminal probe of Kam Wong, the former CEO of the MCU, who was sentenced to 5½ years in prison last June for the theft of almost $10 million from the nonprofit that serves civil servants and their families.
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