Law enforcement at the house of Stewart Rosenwasser in Campbell Hall, Orange County, on Sept. 24. Stewart Rosenwasser, a prosecutor in the county District Attorney’s Office, died by suicide after the FBI showed up to arrest him on bribery charges.

If you’re a good reporter, you might find yourself lying awake some night wondering if someone you’ve been writing about is about to go off the deep end.

Journalists often cover people in extreme situations, and when those circumstances involve criminal allegations we are often talking about victims and perpetrators. For the past few months, Lana Bellamy of our Hudson Valley bureau has been looking into the matter of Stewart Rosenwasser, who until June was a respected Orange County prosecutor, and a former judge nearing the end of a seemingly respectable legal career. But Lana had learned that his sudden departure from the county district attorney’s office was at least in part due to allegations that he had conspired with a businessman who had induced Rosenwasser to pursue criminal charges against the businessman’s sister and nephew, and that the prosecutor had........

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