Scher v. National Ass'n of Securities Dealers

OPINION AND ORDER

MUKASEY, District Judge.

In 1972, a former New York state senator and designee for the State Supreme Court bench named Seymour Thaler was convicted in the Southern District of New York of charges growing out of his participation in a scheme to sell stolen bearer bonds — charges that included transporting those bonds in interstate commerce with knowledge that they were stolen, and perjury before the grand jury in an effort to conceal the scheme. While serving his sentence, Thaler sued the Second New Haven Bank, claiming that his conviction, loss of public office, disbarment and…