Oneida County judge recuses himself from medicaid fraud case

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Oneida County judge recuses himself from medicaid fraud case

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Story Created: Aug 29, 2008 at 2:40 PM EDT

Story Updated: Aug 29, 2008 at 2:40 PM EDT

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - An Oneida County judge has decided to recuse himself from a medicaid fraud case.

Judge Michael Dwyer is handing over the case of Ole Pettersen to judge Barry Donalty. Defense lawyer Frank Policelli wanted Dwyer to recuse himself, citing "appearance of partiality."

Policelli says his client had a rough business relationship with one of Dwyer's law clerks.

Pettersen is charged with bilking medicaid out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while he was director of the "center for addiction recovery."

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Saturday, Aug 30 at 12:16 PM Anonymous wrote ...

Prison? Yeah ok. There will be a plea bargin I'm sure and he will walk with a slap on the hand. If that was any other regular Joe it would be diffrent.

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Friday, Aug 29 at 4:53 PM bye bye wrote ...

doesn't change the fact that Ole is going to prison. Bye bye you crook.

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