Longtime Manhattan U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who was overseeing the prosecution of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, died Wednesday at 92.
Hellerstein died of natural causes, according to a notice from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. His pending cases, including Maduro’s prosecution, will be randomly reassigned to other judges.
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