A retired New York state judge and prosecutor who resigned from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office just months ago stunningly took his own life before the feds could arrest him in a bribery probe that reportedly culminated in a serious indictment.
Stewart Rosenwasser was pronounced dead Tuesday after shooting and killing himself at his home in Campbell Hall, not far from Middletown, where the feds had shown up Tuesday with a warrant to arrest him for bribery, extortion, and several other crimes, local ABC affiliate WABC and multiple other reports have said.
The Times Union said that there was an exchange of gunfire between Rosenwasser and an FBI agent before the former judge died by suicide.
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