FROM:
HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: MARCH
29, 2017
RE: PRESS
RELEASE – MICHAEL E. WENDEL CONVICTION
After
less than fifteen minutes of deliberations, MICHAEL E. WENDEL, age 59, a
resident of 7034 Route 209 in Wawarsing, was found guilty by a six-member jury
of Criminal Contempt in the Second Degree, a “Class A” misdemeanor.
On
the evening of December 17, 2015, Wendel violated an Order of Protection, which
had been issued for the protection of Ulster County Comptroller Elliot Auerbach
and his family by the Honorable Kevin Hunt of the Town of Shawangunk Court.
The contempt occurred when Mr. Wendel aggressively
approached Mr. Auerbach in the Wawarsing Town Hall in the Village of Ellenville. At that time he placed himself within inches
of Mr. Auerbach with a camera in his hand, and made statements to Mr. Auerbach
of a harassing and taunting nature.
Wendell
will be sentenced on April 17, 2017.
The
case was prosecuted by Ulster County Assistant District Attorney Justin F.
Stenerson. The defendant was represented
by Michael Bruhn, Jr., Esq.
