The former head of one of New York's more powerful lcorrection officers' unions, Norman Seabrook, was denied dismissal of corruption charges against him and a co-defendant Monday by U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter Jr. of the Southern District of New York.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York charged Seabrook in June 2016 with honest services fraud and a related wire fraud conspiracy count for allegedly receiving a $60,000 kickback from a Manhattan hedge fund in exchange for steering $20 million of Correction Officers' Benevolent Association Inc. retirement funds to the firm.

In their motion in U.S. v. Seabrook, 16-cr-00467, Seabrook and his co-defendant, Murray Huberfeld of Platinum Partners, argued that the government illegally used wiretapped conversations obtained during surveillance of Huberfeld in a separate police corruption investigation to bring charges.