Hearing set in Zherka suit vs. Manhattan ADA

October

U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel has set a hearing date of Nov. 20 in newspaper publisher/strip club owner Sam Zherka’s lawsuit against a Manhattan assistant district attorney named Matthew Bogdanos on motions to dismiss the lawsuit. Zherka claims that Bogdanos launched a criminal probe of the owner of the Westchester Guardian at the behest of Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore because of unflattering pieces about DiFiore and her husband Dennis Glazer that were published in the paper. Bogadanos denies the claim as have DiFiore and her husband.

Bogdanos claims in court papers filed in federal court in White Plains that he has never met DiFiore or Glazer. But Dhyalma Vazquez, secretary of Westchester’s Independence Party, said in a sworn affidavit that she met Bogdanos at DiFiore’s house during a campaign event during her first campaign for district attorney in 2005. DiFiore, Glazer, and Bogdanos have all submitted sworn affidavits saying that’s a lie.

What’s not a lie is that there was a criminal probe by the Manhattan district attorney’s office in 2006 connected to Zherka. Bogdanos has submitted court papers regarding wiretaps approved by a state court for three numbers connected to Zherka, his business, and a business associate named Genaro Morales in the spring of 2006.

No criminal charges have ever filed against Zherka, who lives in Katonah, in connection with that probe.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 1:38 pm by Tim O'Connor.
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2 Responses to “Hearing set in Zherka suit vs. Manhattan ADA”

jeff October 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Zherka’s lawsuit has already been labled at the very
least misleading as against edelman…sued as the consultant
the papers contained a blog post from LoHud purporting to
be a statment by the consultant accusing zherka of having
albanina mob ties..as it turns out..the actual blog post
was not a statement at all but rather a question which sought to challenge the veracity of the claim in the middle
of the last yonkers mayoral campaign…Judge seibell warned
zherka and his attorney about not repeating the misleading
allegation in future submissions to the court
jeff October 27th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
If d’alma vasquez lies on the stand ….she should
be charged with a felony

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