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OAK HARBOR, OHIO---Seven months after former Oak Harbor attorney Elsebeth Baumgartner was tried in Ottawa County on 34 contempt charges lodged against her by retiring visiting judge Richard Markus, visiting judge David Faulkner rendered his verdict, finding her guilty of 27 counts of contempt.

BUFFALO---According to published reports, Ralph "Bucky" Phillips is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to killing state trooper Joseph Longobardo and seriously wounding trooper Donald Baker Jr. on Aug. 31 in Chautauqua County.

PANAMA CITY, FLA---Seven former guards at a now closed Bay County juvenile boot camp and a nurse have been charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of Martin Lee Anderson, the teenager who died in January while in custody at the camp.

Anonymous postings by "Franknfurter" and others at Schiavo forums at Topix and other blogs such as one manned by David Giacalone at Shlep and his "Internet Posse".

Internet defamation and posting of private e-mail messages and addresses.

The court document appointing guardianship monitor Daniel P. Nievinski to the Schiavo case in February, 1994.

Growth and readership of The North Country Gazette.

Scams of home handymen and other consumer ripoffs.

Google censorship.

These are among the topics for this week's Scoop.

ALBANY---The Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century has recommended the closure of nine hospitals statewide including the Bellevue Woman's Hospital in Niskayuna.

NEW YORK--- A former New York City public school employee has pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the New York City Department of Education and its predecessor, the Board of Education of the City of New York (collectively, NYCDOE). The guilty plea is the first charge to result from the ongoing antitrust investigation of the U.S. Department of Justice into bid rigging, bribery and fraud in the industrial maintenance and cleaning supplies industry.

WESTCHESTER---The state has reached agreements with four Westchester County municipalities to stop discharging raw sewage into the Bronx River from their storm sewers.

TALLAHASSEE---Know someone who has engaged in insurance fraud?

If you've got key information that will lead to the arrests of individuals responsible for insurance fraud, you could receive a monetary reward for reporting it.

DAYTON, OHIO---More than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to the hospital, a woman has been charged with aggravated murder for allegedly killing her baby in a microwave oven.

TROY---A 12-year-old boy is accused of raping an 11-year-old girl near a dumpster on the playground of Public School 12 in South Troy on Friday.

"You think I don't even mean a single word I say".

That's a line from the hit song "Words" by the Bee Gees.

There's a lot of people that don't believe a word that Michael Schiavo says.

PINELLAS COUNTY----The death toll at the Pinellas County Jail this year has risen to eight.

ALBANY---A total of $268 million is being awarded to 53 hospitals and nursing homes to further strengthen New York's world-class health care system. The grants are part of the State's Healthcare Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkers (HEAL NY) Phase Two and have been awarded to 29 hospitals and 24 nursing homes that have demonstrated a commitment to investing in the restructuring and reconfiguration of their facilities to further improve the delivery of quality care to patients.

NEW YORK---A medical services provider in New York City and Long Island was barred by the State Department of Health (DOH) from further participation in New York State's multi-billion dollar Medicaid program after State Comptroller's office auditors identified nearly $1.3 million in Medicaid overpayments to the provider due to overbilling and claims billed at higher-than-allowable rates.

TOMPKINS COUNTY---Allegations of serious physical and sexual abuse of young male residents by staff at the Louis Gossett Jr. Residential Center, a youth detention facility operated by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, have been ruled unsubstantiated following a 10-month investigation conducted by the state Inspector General's Office.

ALBANY---Home for the holidays.

Three months after New York State Trooper Donald Baker Jr. was wounded during the manhunt for fugitive Ralph "Bucky" Phillips, the officer has returned to his Clifton Park home.

ALBANY---The owner of two Brooklyn-based companies who was wrongfully awarded more than 73 no-bid emergency construction contracts with the state worth more than $7 million, has been sentenced to five years of probation.

PERTH---Two employees of the Tryon Residential Center where a teenager died last week after an altercation with a member of the facility's staff have been placed on paid leave pending an investigation into the teen's death.

AMSTERDAM---An Amsterdam high school football coach has been charged with driving while intoxicated, driving with more than three times the legal limit of alcohol.

HAMILTON, OHIO---Charges of public indecency against Hamilton's city prosecutor who was arrested for walking naked around the Government Services Center after business hours have been dismissed because they were improperly filed.

A new document has surfaced in the Terri Schiavo case which casts even greater doubts on the veracity of Michael Schiavo and gives cause for an independent forensic pathologist to review the videotapes and specimens said to exist of the Schiavo autopsy.

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people".

So said President John F. Kennedy.

The same might be said in northern Ohio.

Although public officials in four counties in northern Ohio----Franklin, Cuyahoga, Ottawa and Erie---have consistently claimed that allegations made against them by Elsebeth Baumgartner were false, to date there has been no independent investigation. Her allegations against them have been deemed false because they of their own self-serving denials and they then used their positions to bring and prosecute malicious and convoluted criminal charges against her.

VIERA, FLA---As a jury was being selected in the child molestation case of a former sixth grade teacher at Endeavour Elementary School, in Brevard County, he pleaded guilty to molesting a 12-year-old male student and faces up to 260 years in prison.

COLONIE-The former chief financial officer for the New York State Nurses Association who allegedly embezzled more than $1 million from the organization over the past four years has been indicted by a grand jury.

PINELLAS COUNTY---Sixth Circuit Court Judge Crockett Farnell, no stranger to controversy and in his last days as a judge, has charged the secretary of Florida's Department of Children and Families (DCF) with seven counts of indirect criminal contempt for failing to transfer mentally ill inmates from the Pinellas County Jail.

COLUMBUS-The double standards that exist in Ohio, particularly considering the use of e-mails, is becoming more and more evident, perhaps even highlighting what appears to be gender discrimination in that it appears that females are treated more harshly and differently in the judicial system than males.

ALBANY---A senior case worker for Albany County's Department for Children, Youth and Families has been arrested for prostitution along with five other women for allegedly using a web site to offer sexual services for rates ranging from $150 to $400.

AKRON, OHIO---A retired captain with the Akron Police Department who admitted to stealing over $20,000 from the city by altering her pay records spent Thanksgiving in the Summit County Jail.

Public officials in northern Ohio have engaged in a concerted effort to discredit former Oak Harbor attorney Elsebeth Baumgartner in an effort to make her documented, well-founded, and in some cases, already substantiated allegations of wrongdoing in government and in particular, the court system, go away.

ALBANY---The son of Lt. Governor Mary Donohue has been arrested for drunk driving.

QUEENS---Nine employees of the Hollis Park Manor Nursing Home in Queens have been arrested after a hidden camera revealed evidence of widespread patient neglect and falsification of patient records. Among those arrested was a physician who served as the medical director of the nursing home, two licensed practical nurses and six nurse aides.

FULTON COUNTY---The death of a child in one of New York's juvenile prisons raises major concerns and must prompt a thorough and independent investigation, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint declaration.

Hazardous toys are still sold in stores across the country, according to the 21st annual toy safety survey released by the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).

MIAMI---A former Florida attorney has been sentenced to 63 months in prison on mail and fraud charges.

ALBANY-A dozen or so years ago, the New York State Police were involved in a huge scandal involving the fabrication of evidence used to wrongly convict suspects in various cases.

SUFFOLK COUNTY---A 46-year-old Huntington town building department employee is charged with second-degree grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $73,000 in town permit revenue over the past four years.

With so much violent conflict abroad and bitter division at home, here's some good news to be thankful for this week: American support for the First Amendment appears to be on the rise.

TALLAHASSEE - Paul Richard Parker Jr., a Bay County attorney who specializes in personal injury law, has been arrested on multiple charges of producing child pornography, possession of child pornography and promoting the sexual performance of a child.

NEW YORK---Barry Scheck, a member of the O.J. Simpson's defense team and co-founder of the Innocence Project, and his law firm, Cochran, Neufeld & Scheck, have agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a malpractice claim.

PANAMA CITY, FLA---Frustrated because he thought a defendant facing a felony parole violation was being tried in a separate offense in a courtroom with inadequate security, a Florida judge told defense attorneys that he had brought a gun to court and was "locked and loaded".

ALBANY---The Public Authorities Control Board, which has approved an average of less than half a billion dollars in projects per meeting for the last year, is rushing through projects totaling $11.4 billion in October and November, with billions more expected in December, according to the state Comptroller's office.

ALBANY---The state's 300-year-old system of town and village courts will be revamped under a plan for comprehensive reform outlined Tuesday by Chief Justice Judith S. Kaye and the Office of Court Administration.

TROY---Eight men who Rensselaer County district attorney Patricia DeAngelis have characterized as deadbeat dads, allegedly collectively owing more than $186,000 in back child support, have been arrested as part of the prosecutor's Joint Enforcement Team program.

ALBANY---Gov. George Pataki has signed an order giving subpoena powers to the former federal prosecutor who is acting at the Governor's special counsel in "Chauffergate", an investigation into state comptroller Alan Hevesi's use of a state employee to act as a driver for his ill wife.

ERIE COUNTY, OHIO---In Cuyahoga County, former attorney Elsebeth Baumgartner is being threatened with 75 years in state prison for criticizing a judge.

FORT PIERCE, FLA---A St. Lucie County Court judge is learning first hand not to "rock the boat" and after filing complaints on his fellow judges, alleging that they couldn't be impartial and were allegedly acting improperly, he's had the tables turned on him.

ALBANY---The Court of Appeals has held that the procedure used by the state in involuntarily committing certain sex offenders after they had served their sentences and left the custody of the Department of Correction Services was illegal.

COLONIE-A staff attorney for the Town of Colonie is under arrest, charged with felony assault and unlawful possession of a weapon following a road rage incident in which he allegedly struck a pizza deliveryman in the head with a flashlight.

Bowing to outrage and pressure from the American public, Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation have pulled the plug on O.J. Simpson's book and Fox-TV special "If I Did It", his hypothetical account of how he would have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman "if he were the one responsible" for their slaying in 1994.

TOLEDO, OHIO-Judge Thomas Osowik told coin dealer and GOP fund raiser Tom Noe that he had "cooked the books" in a premeditated "elaborate scheme before sentencing Noe to serve 18 years in state prison for embezzling more than $2 million from the $50 million investment fund of the Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation.

POTTERSVILLE---A student at the Word of life Bible Institute on Glendale Road, Pottersville, is behind bars at the Warren County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail after being charged with the burglary and arson of the Christ Episcopal Church destroyed in a May 30 fire.

MINEOLA---An illegal cigarette ring that cost Nassau County governments more than a million dollars last month alone, said to be responsible for selling untaxed cigarettes, obtained through a Native American reservation in Suffolk County, to businesses and distributors in Nassau, Queens and Bronx counties, has been shut down as a result of a joint raid conducted by Nassau County law enforcement, the New York State Police and state Department of Taxation and Finance.

NIAGARA FALLS---The City of Niagara Falls has improved its financial condition in the last year, but remains dangerously close to its constitutional tax limit and has little margin for error in the 2007 tentative budget, according to a budget review released by the state comptroller's office.

BROOKLYN---Two men who plotted a violent escape attempt from a Brooklyn courtroom last January have been sentenced to 22 years in prison.

LONG ISLAND---The Rev. Thomas G. Saloy, an administrator of the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Roosevelt, has been federally charged with possession of child pornography.

MANHATTAN---Samuel Brevdeh of Brooklyn, former president of CashPoint Network Services, Inc., a huge bill payment business headquartered in Manhattan with operations in New York and numerous other states, has pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conducting a large-scale electronic check-kiting scheme at CashPoint.

Narcissism
Opportunism
Selfishness
Greed
Arrogance
Insensitivity

These character traits seem to be shared by O.J. Simpson and Michael Schiavo.

Former GOP fund raiser Tom Noe, friend of Republican superstars like President Bush and Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, has been found guilty of stealing more than $1.1 million from the coin funds he managed on behalf of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.

LAKE GEORGE---A Warren County Grand Jury will hear evidence concerning the capsizing of the Ethan Allen tour boat on Lake George last October which resulted in the deaths of 20 elderly passengers who were from Michigan and Ohio.

PINELLAS COUNTY---The family of Richard J. Trovanos who allegedly hanged himself while incarcerated in the Pinellas County Jail, wants some answers into how that could have happened and have hired an attorney.

ALBANY---A Department of Environmental Conservation captain who served as the liaison between the NYS Office of Homeland Security and the New York City Office of Emergency Management, has resigned after a state investigation found that he had abused his position by harassing women drivers and then lying to investigators about the incidents.

ONEIDA COUNTY---An assistant supervisor in the Oneida County Motor Vehicles Department has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of petit larceny after an investigation by the state Inspector General's office found that she had stolen more than $300 in registration fees received by the department.

OTSEGO COUNTY---The state Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined that Plainfield town justice Kerry R. Lockwood should be removed from office for failing to report and remit court funds in a timely manner and for failing to cooperate with the commission investigation into her conduct.

PALM BEACH, FLA---Three Jupiter residents have been charged with mail fraud for their participation in a nationwide scheme via eBay to defraud retail businesses throughout the United States.

ESPERANCE---Charles P. Myles, Esperance town justice for the past 17 years, has been convicted of tampering with an electric meter, stealing electricity from National Grid at his residential property in Sloansville, about 24 miles west of Albany.

ALBANY---The state comptroller's office has released a model request for proposals (RFP) for fire districts in response to a new state law that will eventually require fire districts with revenues of more than $200,000 to obtain an annual independent audit.

YORKTOWN---Former Pace University student William Gerhard has admitted to manufacturing and distributing fake driver's licenses.

QUEENSBURY---A Glens Falls man is lodged in the Warren County Jail without bail after he allegedly threatened to blow up the Warren County Department of Social Services.

KALAMAZOO, MI - Judge Richard Alan Enslen has ordered that Michigan prison officials must make significant improvements to mental health care and cease the use of in-cell non-medical restraints for punishment, just one month after he heard arguments from the ACLU National Prison Project and local civil rights attorneys that mental health care in Michigan was a failure. The decision affects several prison facilities in Jackson, Mich.

MANHATTAN---The former chief forensic dentist in the New York City Medical Examiner's Office, an oral surgeon, who has private offices in Manhattan and Leonia, NJ, has been indicted for supplying a former patient with prescriptions for various controlled substances, falsifying medical records, and perjury.

NEW YORK--The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) has released a white paper entitled "Developing a New and Better Long Term Care System in New York State".

"PUMP. Used, one of a kind. White in color, formerly owned by U.S. Ambassador to Italy".

That classified ad appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on May 3, 2003, under the "Antiques and Collectibles" section.

Penis pumps aren't used only by former Oklahoma judge Donald Thompson, convicted for using a penis pump and exposing himself while he was presiding over murder trials.

ALBANY---More than $8 million has been awarded by Gov. George Pataki for 12 North Country communities to implement critical water quality projects that will protect the Adirondacks and provide needed infrastructure improvements. The projects will help reduce the amount of phosphorus and other contaminants that enter Adirondack lakes and rivers, helping to improve the ecosystems while also providing reliable sources of sewage collection, treatment and disposal.

TROY---A Rensselaer County corrections officer who pleaded guilty in March to state charges of raping female inmates at the county jail between March and September 2005 has been sentenced to one to three years in state prison on two counts of third degree rape.

OAK HARBOR---All drug charges against former attorney and pharmacist Elsebeth Baumgartner were dismissed in Ottawa County Court Thursday and her husband, Joseph Baumgartner entered a not guilty plea to a single drug possession count for allegedly having unlabeled prescription medicines in their home.

DENVER--- " She was mine to do with what I wanted to do with, she was married to me and therefore her parents had lost all rights to her. Do you get that?"

Yet another person has come forward to relate a rant and display of temper by Michael Schiavo, the Florida man who has interjected himself into national politics because he believes that he was wronged by efforts made by Congress, the President and the Vatican as well as others to save the life of his disabled wife, ordered to die by the judicial decree of Pinellas County Probate Court Judge George W. Greer.

MANHATTAN---Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo and executive director of the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, was one of two honorees feted at the Tenth Annual Awards Celebration held earlier this month by Good Counsel Inc. in Manhattan.

ERIE COUNTY, OHIO---Even though assistant Erie County prosecutor Terry M. Griffith prosecutes people for leaving the scene of accidents, Erie County prosecutor Kevin Baxter hasn't decided if she should be disciplined for doing the same thing.

PINELLAS COUNTY---A federal grand jury sitting in the Northern District of Florida, Pensacola Division, has returned an indictment alleging that Pinellas Sheriff's Deputy Richard Farnham used excessive force during a September 2004 incident where he deployed an electronic control device, a taser, on one of two armed male subjects who had fired gunshots upon Farnham and a Santa Rosa County deputy sheriff.

ALBANY---It appears that Capt. Frank Pace of the New York State Police is the sacrificial lamb for Congressman John Sweeney's defeat at the polls on Election Day.

YONKERS---Weak internal financial controls in the Yonkers City School District led to excess overtime payments, salaries that were higher than authorized, and impermissible sick leave payments to some school district employees as well as other accounting problems, according to an audit issued Thursday by the state comptroller's office.

ELIZABETHTOWN---A former Ticonderoga emergency dispatcher has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl at a party held at the apartment of a fellow dispatcher and his girlfriend.

The 20th wave of the statewide "Buckle Up New York" campaign is underway, and will run through Sunday, Nov. 26. More than 500 police agencies have again joined the New York State Police in this latest "zero tolerance" enforcement effort, which is intended to save lives by ensuring all motorists and their passengers are buckled up.

TAMPA, FLA---A former Polk County sheriff's officer has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release for distribution and possession of child pornography via computer.

QUEENS---A Queens man has been accused of hacking into his former employer's computer network.

ALBANY---Emily Pataki, daughter of Gov. George Pataki, has flunked the New York State bar exam in her first attempt, according to the New York Law Journal.

In a legal battle pitting the good of our children - the essence of innocence - against the threat of porn and smut - four-letter words that ooze evil - one would think the outcome would be sure and simple. Not quite.

ALBANY----The state Attorney General's office has filed a lawsuit against a leading hedge fund and others for engaging in a fraudulent mutual fund market timing scheme that damaged long-term investors.

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA---The Fourth District Court of Appeals has affirmed a $26.8 million award against the state Department of Children and Families, finding the agency negligent in the abuse of a two-year old.

LOS ANGELES, CA---After a video camera captured a 63-year-old patient from Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower hospital being dumped in a downtown area known as skid row, dressed only in a hospital gown and slippers, city prosecutors are levying criminal charges of false imprisonment and dependent-care abuseagainst the facility.

ERIE, PA-During the manhunt for Ralph "Bucky" Phillips after one state trooper had been killed and another seriously injured, the Police Benevolent Association for the New York State Police offered a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Phillips.

CLEVELAND---Saying that she was "tired" and "worn down" by the months of wrangling, legal proceedings and incarcerations, former attorney Elsebeth Baumgartner decided to enter a plea of no contest Wednesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in a negotiated plea bargain with the guarantee of her right to appeal protected and her release on an appellate bond.

ALBANY--- A lawsuit has been filed against the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets to prohibit the production and sale of foie gras as an adulterated food product.

QUEENS---A massive online gambling operation was shut down Wednesday with the indictment of 27 individuals and three corporations on charges of unlawfully operating a highly sophisticated operation in Queens County and elsewhere in the world that booked more than $3.3 billion in wages over a 28-month period on a wide variety of sporting events ranging from horseracing, football, baseball, basketball and hockey to NASCAR, PGA golf and professional tennis, among others.

NEW YORK---A former assistant vice president with Deutsche Bank has been criminally charged for his alleged participation in a multi-million dollar bank fraud.

NEW YORK---A superseding indictment has been returned containing expanded details of the fraud for which Philip R. Bennett, the former chief executive officer of Refco, and Robert C. Trosten, its former chief financial officer, have previously been charged.

NEW YORK---The former employee of a group of holding companies which controlled various properties throughout the country has been charged with defrauding his former employer of over $5 million in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.

ALBANY---The performance of managed care health plans in New York continues to improve and exceed available national benchmarks for similar health plans, according to state health commissioner Dr. Antonia C. Novello.

ALBANY---The state paid medical providers $3.6 million for 4,277 Medicaid recipients where the claim for reimbursement had dates of service after the patients' dates of death because workers failed to perform timely updates of Medicaid eligibility files, according to an audit released by State Comptroller Alan Hevesi.

Paying for long-term care which includes home care, personal care, nursing home care, adult day care and respite, is a major concern and burden for senior citizens, people with disabilities, and their families.

ROTTERDAM---A nurse who works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Albany Medical Center has been charged with felony reckless endangerment after police say that her husband abused a six-month old foster baby in their care and that she did nothing about it.

AMSTERDAM---A former secretary with the Amsterdam Police Department has filed a federal lawsuit against police chief Thomas Brownell which alleges that the chief sent her sexually suggestive e-mails.

FORT EDWARD---The nursing home aide charged with placing a pillow over the face of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient and then punching it allegedly said that he was only joking.

TALLAHASSEE - Florida will recover $2.2 million as part of a 43-state $49.5 million settlement with OmniCare, Inc. according to the Attorney General's office. The agreement resolves allegations that the company was unlawfully switching patients' prescriptions in order to increase profits at the expense of the Medicaid program.

ARIZONA- Arizona's two new publicly funded scholarship programs are being defended from legal attack by the Institute for Justice Arizona Chapter. The programs are designed to help especially vulnerable students-those with disabilities and those in foster care-secure quality educational opportunities in private schools.

TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Attorney General's office has issued a consumer alert cautioning Florida business owners against variations on a scam that involves deceptive marketing of corporate minutes services. AG Charlie Crist issued the advisory while announcing that his office has stopped the practice of a California business that used deceptive tactics to lure Florida corporations into buying corporate minutes documents from the company.

NEW YORK---In the aftermath of a report released Monday by the Civilian Complaint Review Board and an incident last month, the New York Civil Liberties Union has called on the New York City Police Department to assure that the "professional courtesy" given police officers and their friends and families does not turn into law-enforcement immunity.

BRANT LAKE-The volunteer firefighter who was originally charged with fourth degree arson for allegedly torching the historic Brant Lake General Store in Warren County is now facing additional charges in relation to the fire as well as sex charges in Saratoga County.

Just what is Ottawa County Sheriff Robert Bratton hiding in the Elsebeth Baumgartner case?

Or is he nervous about his liability in the matter?

Does he have an aversion to Ohio's Public Records Law?

Why does it seem that whenever and wherever there's a controversy involving Michael Schiavo, his version of events come into question?

And why does it always seem to center around self-serving hearsay?

Can it be that Michael Schiavo is the only one telling the truth and everyone else is wrong?

NEW YORK---"Combating Cyber Crimes Against Children" will be the subject of a public hearing held Thursday, Nov. 16 by the New York Commission on Investigation (SIC) beginning at 9:30 a.m. at 59 Maiden Lane, New York City, in the SIC Hearing Room, 31st Floor.

ALBANY---The state Department of Motor Vehicles is launching an innovative program that will allow high school students to take the driver's license knowledge test in their own schools via the Internet.

ALBANY---More than $52.8 million in grant funding is now available to advance Health Information Technology (HIT) initiatives on a regional level.

TOLEDO, OHIO---After three days of deliberations, a Lucas County jury found coin dealer and GOP fund raiser Tom Noe guilty of 29 felony counts of defrauding the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.

ALBANY----As defense attorneys for convicted ax-murderer Christopher Porco filed a motion Monday seeking to set aside the guilty verdict because a juror allegedly improperly shared her notes taken at trial with other jurors, the lead prosecutor in the case has resigned from the Albany County district attorney's office to enter into private law practice.