What about the fact that the judge was not selected at random as required by N Y law? There is a congresswoman who submitted this to doj as odds for him being judge was like 1 in 48,000.
More than once I have been two feet from the hand cranked Bingo barrel they use in NY Supreme to select judges for cases. Seeing them spin it and pull out a token I recall being extremely doubtful that it was used one hundred percent of the time…