People v. Dowling

—Appeals from judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Colleen McMahon, J.), rendered April 17, 1996, convicting defendants, after a joint jury trial, of various offenses arising out of their scheme to defraud investors, held in abeyance, and the matters remanded for a Rosario hearing.

Defendants were brokers at a company originally known as Oxford Capital Securities. By the time defendants joined the company, Oxford had allegedly embarked on a wide-ranging “Ponzi scheme”, selling fraudulent investment agreements and certificates. It was charged that defendants and other brokers at the firm…