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Federal Court Upholds McCarthy-Era Conviction

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A federal court judge refused to vacate a McCarthy-era conviction related to an obstruction of justice plot to leak atomic secrets. So reports New York’s Daily News.

The convict in question, 98-year-old Miriam Moskowitz, was convicted in 1950 of obstruction of justice tied to a plot to leak atomic secrets to Communists. She has always maintained that she didn’t know anything about the atomic espionage of her boss and lover at the time. But the judge didn’t buy it, noting that a vacated conviction can only come to pass under extraordinary circumstances.

Read the full article from New York's Dailey News.

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