Ex-Brooklyn prosecutor gets jail time for wiretapping love interest
A federal judge sentenced a disgraced former Brooklyn prosecutor who pleaded guilty to wiretapping her love interest and a fellow prosecutor to a year and one day in prison on Friday.
The once star assistant district attorney of 15 years, Tara Lenich, 42, sniffled in Brooklyn’s federal court as she addressed the judge.
“Your Honor, I have a hard time believing I’m even in your courtroom as a criminal defendant,” Lenich said with a shaky voice. “I lost the very thing I was trying to protect, my career, which was my life.”