A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday sentenced Caribbean-born jurist Sylvia G. Ash to 15 months in prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and making a false statement to a federal agent.
US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, of Manhattan federal court, imposed the sentence on Ash, 64, a Brooklyn who was born in Trinidad and Tobago to Grenadian and Vincentian parents.
In pronouncing the sentence, Judge Kaplan said Ash’s “crimes struck at the heart of the criminal justice system.”
Ash, a former justice of the New York State Supreme Court and chair of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Credit Union (MCU) in New York, was convicted in December 2021 after a two-week jury trial before Judge Kaplan.
