NY Post
A lawyer embroiled in a bitter child custody case in Westchester County is behind bars on charges that he threatened the judge in the case in a series of disturbing text messages.
“I’m going to beat you,” Yonkers attorney Nicholas Leo allegedly texted Acting Supreme Court Justice Susan Capeci in one message, according to a report by lohud.com. “I wish you die tonight in a car fire.
“I warned you month after month after month,” Leo, 57, allegedly said in another text. “If you take my kids from me for no reason, which you did, it’s not gonna go well. I hope you die.”
On Friday, Leo, who is a defendant in the custody case, was arraigned on a felony charge of aggravated harassment of a judge and ordered held without bail pending a return court appearance on Wednesday.
Records show that he is being held without bail at the Westchester County Jail.
