Steven Finkelstein v. Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General

Petitioner pro se Steven Finkelstein moves for a certificate of appealability (“COA”) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) to permit him to appeal from so much of a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Joanna Seybert, Judge, as denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 vacating his New York State convictions for larceny and submission of false Medicaid claims (collectively the “fraud convictions”). Finkel-stein also appeals from so much of the judgment as denied his request for a writ of error coram nobis pursuant to the…