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Former Melrose Credit Union President/CEO Alan Kaufman, whose appeal to overturn his conviction and prison sentence was rejected by an appeals court, asked a federal judge to grant him a new trial based on his claims of newly discovered evidence.

In court documents that he filed last week, Kaufman argued he should be granted another trial because new evidence shows his trial was held in the wrong venue, in the Southern District Court in Manhattan, and that his trial should have been held in the Eastern District Court on Long Island. Federal prosecutors said they met the burden to prove that Kaufman’s trial was held in the proper venue by the preponderance of the evidence.

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