After a judge agreed to hear arguments on the issue, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor joined the Legal Aid Society and other lawyers representing people detained in the jail complex in calling for a takeover.
An old friend of Senator Robert Menendez was in legal trouble. The government says the senator went to great lengths to try to install a friendly prosecutor.
Federal prosecutors said the defendants encouraged low-income patients to sell their medication to them and then resold the drugs and used the money to buy luxury goods.