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New York Sex Crime Offender Russell Harding Fights To Stay Off Sex Offender List

By Conaway and Strickler

The nydailynews.com reported in a story on February 10, 2009 that Russell Harding, housing czar during Rudy Giuliani?s governor term, is fighting court attempts to place his name and address in a New York state wide registry of sex offenders for life. More than 27,000 names can be found on the list for offenders of sex crimes in New York. According to court documents, Harding is upset that federal prosecutors recently turned over documents detailing damaging chats he had online. Harding wrote, ?As the court knows these chats were not the basis for any charge brought against me either in the original or amended indictments. They were never used as evidence as they had no evidentiary basis for the crime of possession of child pornography in this particular case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).