The Story of Sexual Abuse, Bribery and Suicide That Shocked a Small Town

NY Times ^ | 5/15/25 | Christopher Maag

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Early one morning in September 2024, two teams of F.B.I. agents descended simultaneously on a pair of homes in Orange County, New York. The agents arrived to serve arrest warrants on Mout’z Soudani, 76, a local real estate investor, and Stewart Rosenwasser, 72, a prominent former judge and recently retired county prosecutor. The two were accused in a conspiracy case.

Mr. Soudani surrendered. Mr. Rosenwasser did not. Instead, he barricaded himself inside his home in Campbell Hall, N.Y., a suburb 65 miles north of Manhattan, exchanging gunfire with F.B.I. agents, according to local news reports, which cited an unnamed source in local law enforcement. It was all over the news: He turned his gun on himself and took his own life.

The burst of violence shocked members of the community, who knew Mr. Soudani as a respected former restaurateur and Mr. Rosenwasser as a fixture in county law enforcement dating back decades.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New York
KEYWORDS: banglist; coldcase; crime; embezzlement; jordan; newyork; orangecounty; sexabuse; soudani

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A complicated case involving sexual abuse, bribery , suicide and the re opening of a cold case. The murder of Soudani's wife Helen in 1977 This occured in their restaurant in Rockland County, NY. Soudani was a prime suspect but there was never sufficient evidence and the case remained unsolved to this day.

[Darksheare]

Around the corner from me.
And I remember Rosenwasser..

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I have scanned about four stories on this matter and for some reason his political affiliation and who appointed him as judge seems to be missing from all the stories.

Should I or should I not read something into that?

[Mark]

“I fought the law, and the law won.”

[Darksheare]

D affiliation.
And he was a jerk.

[FreedomPoster]

You can assume from that he’s a (D)emocrat.

Were he a Republican it would have been in the headline, the sub-head, the first line of the first paragraph, or the first paragraph. Or some/all of the above. But it would have been in there and not buried in paragraph 5.