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Federal judge Alvin Hellerstein dies at 92 while overseeing Maduro case
Manhattan federal judge Alvin Hellerstein died Wednesday at 92, a court official confirmed.
He had served on the federal bench for nearly three decades, first appointed in 1998.
Hellerstein was overseeing the prosecution of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured earlier this year and faces narco-terrorism conspiracy charges.
The judge had presided over a hearing in that case just two weeks before his death.
His work also included lawsuits over the September 11 attacks, including claims by victims and their families that continued for two decades.
He also ruled in several cases involving Donald Trump, including rejecting the president’s latest effort to move his New York hush-money case to federal court and have it dismissed.
The accounts do not say who will take over the Maduro case.
Manhattan federal judge Alvin K. Hellerstein died at age 92, according to an official.
Hellerstein had presided over cases involving former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump and the September 11 attacks.
He died on Wednesday, and no cause of death was immediately provided.
Only two weeks earlier, he had presided over a hearing in Maduro’s ongoing narco-terrorism conspiracy prosecution.
Hellerstein was appointed to the federal bench in 1998 and moved to senior status in 2011.
- Who
- Alvin K. Hellerstein, a Manhattan federal judge.
- What
- He died at age 92.
- When
- Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- The cause of death was not immediately provided.
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President Bill Clinton appointed Hellerstein to the federal bench.
After the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, Hellerstein presided over lawsuits arising from the attack.
Hellerstein moved to senior status.
He presided over a hearing in the prosecution of Nicolás Maduro.
Hellerstein died at age 92, according to a federal court official.
- Age at death
- 92
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Federal appointment
- 1998
- Senior status
- 2011
- Recent case
- Nicolás Maduro narco-terrorism conspiracy prosecution
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