N.Y. Federal Judge’s Ruling Rejects Attempt to Use Recent High Court Recusal Decision

A New York federal judge has rejected a recusal motion filed by former Bonanno family acting boss Vincent Basciano, marking perhaps the first citation of the Supreme Court's recent Caperton ruling. The judge rejected the argument that Caperton created a new standard for recusal motions, writing, "What was new in Caperton was not the objective standard, but the application of that standard to the area of judicial elections -- something utterly irrelevant to an appointed federal judge with life tenure."