Being a corporate monitor for the U.S. Department of Justice certainly has its perks — power, prestige, top pay. But it can have its dark side, too. Just ask Margaret Finerty, a former New York judge who worked as a monitor three years ago at the New York Racing Association Inc., which is based in Queens. The horse racing organization had collaborated with betting tellers in a scheme to evade state taxes. To avoid being indicted, it signed a deferred prosecution with Roslynn Mauskopf, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and agreed to enact sweeping reforms under the direction of a monitor, or outside overseer.
As part of those monitoring duties, Finerty or her staff would show up daily at 6 a.m. on the seedy backstretch at Saratoga to interview grooms, walkers and exercise workers. They’d return again every evening after the races.
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