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NEW YORK — The former Republican leader of the state Senate has asked an appeals court to stop prosecutors from filing new charges once his fraud conviction is overturned.
Joseph Bruno, 81, was sentenced in May to two years in prison for his conviction on two federal fraud counts.
A recent Supreme Court decision led prosecutors to tell Bruno’s attorneys they will concede that the conviction should be reversed because instructions on the law given to jurors were in error.
