ALBANY – A state judge yesterday left in place all but 13 counts of a 90-count indictment, including the most severe charges, against a one-time political adviser to former state comptroller Alan Hevesi who earned millions in fees, mostly secretly, for steering to clients investments from a huge public employee pension fund administered solely by Mr. Hevesi.
Among other things, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lewis Bart Stone (See Profile) rejected in an 85-page opinion Henry “Hank” Morris’ contention that 23 felony and 28 misdemeanor counts brought under the state’s Martin Act by Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo could not apply to Mr. Morris because he was not an employee of the state.
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