People v. Schwartz

*305Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard J. Fried, J.), rendered December 2, 2002, convicting defendant Howard Schwartz, after a jury tried, of scheme to defraud in the first degree, falsifying business records in the first degree, and five counts of securities fraud, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 4 to 12 years and imposing an aggregate fine of $25,000, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the conviction for falsifying business records and, on the facts, to the extent of vacating the convictions for securities fraud with respect to Technical…