Attorneys for criminal defendants in Brooklyn are reviewing cases involving prosecutor Tara Lenich—arrested last week on suspicion of forging a judge’s signature to obtain illegal wiretaps—to determine if those cases have been compromised.
Lenich, 41, who served as deputy chief for special investigations for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office’s violent criminal enterprises bureau, has been charged with two counts of eavesdropping and 20 counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument. She allegedly obtained forged judges’ signatures on court orders to obtain wiretaps on a New York City police detective identified in media reports as Jarrett Lemieux. She had worked with Lemieux on a case involving a group of four men accused of moving 153 firearms into Brooklyn from Georgia via Delta Air Lines commercial flights, for a period stretching from June 8, 2015, to this past Thanksgiving weekend.
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