Nir Meir fails to reach plea deal, will head to trial for fraud

Nir Meir has not yet accepted a plea deal, his attorney said at his last court appearance before his October trial. The disgraced former HFZ Capital executive has pleaded not guilty in an alleged $86 million fraud case involving the XI condo project on the High Line. When Meir was in court earlier this month, his attorney, Stephen McCarthy, asked the judge for one last chance to make a plea deal before trial, saying he had a meeting planned with the bureau chief at the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Though he called the meeting “productive” and said the two are […]

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