Legal Opinion
United States v. Gladstone
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 10, 2001No. 00 CR. 652(RO)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
OWEN, District Judge.
Defendant Richard Gladstone was acquitted following a four week trial before me for securities fraud and two and one-half days of jury deliberation. He now moves for attorney’s fees and expenses pursuant to the Hyde Amendment, 1 asserting he meets its requirement of showing that the prosecution of him was “vexatious, frivolous ... or [in] bad faith.”
In June 2000, a Grand Jury had indicted him and three others, Howard Helfant, Gus (“Tommy”) Geldman and Robert Wade, charging violations of the federal securities laws, and specifically that Gladstone owned and…
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