People v. Nussbaum

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Thorp, J.), rendered October 16, 1987, convicting him of bribe receiving in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, the indictment is dismissed, and the case is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for the purpose of entering an order in its discretion pursuant to CPL 160.50.

*740This prosecution arises from allegations of corruption surrounding the awarding of cable television franchises to companies in Queens in the early 1980’s. The…