The defendant in a federal white-collar crime case will get some of his business records back, now that a U.S. district judge in the Eastern District of New York has found that they were seized through an illegal search warrant and must be suppressed, according to court documents.

But the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said in a letter to the court that it plans to seek a superseding indictment for the defendant, John Drago, within two weeks.

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