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美国纽约南区联邦法院发言人于周三确认，阿尔文·赫勒斯坦（Alvin Hellerstein）去世。这位联邦法官数十年来审理过美国一些最受关注的案件，被告中包括多位总统及首席执行官。他享年92岁。
去世之际，赫勒stein正主持针对委内瑞拉前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗（Nicolás Maduro）的刑事案，同时坚决拒绝将另一位总统——唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的刑事案件从州法院移交至他所在的纽约南区联邦法院。赫勒斯坦在今年1月接下马杜罗案后曾受到一些批评，当时他刚过92岁生日没几天，而就在数月前，有记者拍到他在32岁首席执行官查理·贾维斯（Charlie Javice）的备受关注的庭审中短暂打瞌睡——贾维斯因在出售初创公司时欺诈摩根大通，涉案金额达1.75亿美元而被定罪。
马杜罗的代理律师巴里·波拉克（Barry Pollack）在发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网的短信中表示：“得知赫勒斯坦法官去世的消息我们深感悲痛，谨向他的家人致以哀悼。”
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档案照片：2019年10月29日，阿尔文·赫勒斯坦法官在纽约市。Owen Hoffmann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
前总统比尔·克林顿任命赫勒斯坦进入联邦司法系统时，他64岁。在随后的30年间，他主持过一系列重大诉讼：包括与2001年9月11日恐怖袭击相关的集体诉讼、针对名誉扫地的性犯罪者哈维·韦恩斯坦（Harvey Weinstein）的联邦诉讼、与伊拉克阿布格莱布监狱虐待证据相关的诉讼、庞氏骗局主犯大卫·刘（David Hu）的审判，以及去年就特朗普动用《对敌外籍人法》驱逐委内瑞拉人的案件作出了不利于特朗普的裁决。
赫勒斯坦生命的最后几年，一直是特朗普的“眼中钉”。
这位态度严谨的法官多次驳回特朗普将其纽约州刑事案件移交联邦法院的企图。他在相关裁决中经常驳斥特朗普律师的主张，后者声称特朗普“封口费”刑事案件的核心事实涉及其职权范围内的官方行为。特朗普在该案中被州陪审团定罪，该案围绕的是向特朗普前律师迈克尔·科恩（Michael Cohen）报销款项一事——这笔款项是在2016年总统大选前不久支付给成人电影女星斯蒂芬妮·克利福德（Stephanie Clifford，艺名斯托米·丹尼尔斯/Stormy Daniels）的。
“向科恩报销用于向斯蒂芬妮·克利福德支付封口费的款项，不能被视为履行宪法职责，”赫勒斯坦写道，“伪造业务记录以隐瞒这笔报销，并将其转化为特朗普的业务开支及科恩的收入，同样与总统职责无关。”
2024年美国最高法院的一项裁决迫使赫勒斯坦重新审视这一判定。美国第二巡回上诉法院下令赫勒斯坦重新审议总统豁免权相关主张，同时结合最高法院推翻多起特朗普案件的里程碑式判决。他于8月28日就此作出最后一次不利于特朗普的裁决，写道：“庭审证据并未侵犯总统豁免权。”
自2014年以来，赫勒斯坦一直主持与马杜罗案相关的案件。但律师兼前联邦检察官邓肯·莱文（Duncan Levin）表示，他的去世不太可能导致该案出现重大延误。
“案件不会自动暂停，也不存在固定的延误期限。显然，新法官需要时间熟悉案情，但他们可以维持所有现有的日程安排，或根据需要调整，”莱文说，“法官的核心资质之一就是能够阅读大量案卷，额外的文书工作完全在他们的能力范围内。”
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Alvin Hellerstein, no-nonsense judge in Maduro and Trump cases, dies at 92
October 28, 2026 / 3:06 PM EDT / CBS News
Alvin Hellerstein, a federal judge who for decades oversaw some of the country’s most high-profile cases, counting among his defendants presidents and CEOs, has died, a spokesperson for the Southern District of New York confirmed Wednesday. He was 92.
At the time of his death, he was presiding over the criminal case of one former president, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, while steadfastly refusing to allow another president — Donald Trump — to move his criminal case from state court to Hellerstein’s Southern District of New York federal courthouse. Hellerstein had faced some criticism for taking on the Maduro case in January, just days after turning 92, and months after reporters observed him appearing to briefly fall asleep during the high-profile trial of Charlie Javice, a 32-year-old CEO who was convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in the $175 million sale of her startup.
Barry Pollack, an attorney for Maduro, said in a text message to CBS News, “We were saddened to learn of Judge Hellerstein’s passing and offer our condolences to his family.”
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File photo: Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Oct. 29, 2019, in New York City. Owen Hoffmann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Hellerstein was 64 years old when former President Bill Clinton appointed him to the federal bench. In the three decades since, he presided over major lawsuits related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a federal lawsuit against disgraced sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein, litigation related to evidence of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the trial of Ponzi schemer David Hu, and last year ruled against President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act in a case involving the deportation of Venezuelans.
During Hellerstein’s final years, he was a thorn in Mr. Trump’s side.
The no-nonsense judge repeatedly rejected efforts by Mr. Trump to remove his New York State criminal case to federal court. His opinions in the matter frequently scorned arguments made by Mr. Trump’s lawyers, who claimed that the facts at the heart of Mr. Trump’s “hush money” criminal case involved official acts under the color of his office. Mr. Trump was found guilty by a state jury in that case, which revolved around reimbursements made to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen for a payment just before the 2016 presidential election to adult film star Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels.
“Reimbursing Cohen for advancing hush money to Stephanie Clifford cannot be considered the performance of a constitutional duty,” Hellerstein wrote. “Falsifying business records to hide such reimbursement, and to transform the reimbursement into a business expense for Trump and income to Cohen, likewise does not relate to a presidential duty.”
A 2024 ruling by the Supreme Court had forced Hellerstein to reconsider that determination. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered Hellerstein to reexamine arguments around presidential immunity, factoring the Supreme Court’s landmark decision thatupended multiple Trump cases. Hellerstein ruled against Mr. Trump in that matter one last time on Aug. 28, writing that “the trial evidence does not infringe on presidential immunity.”
Hellerstein presided over cases connected to the Maduro matter since 2014. But his death is unlikely to create significant delays in the case, according to lawyer and former federal prosecutor Duncan Levin.
“There’s no automatic pause, and there’s really no fixed period of delay. Obviously a new judge is going to need time to get familiar with the case, but they can keep all the existing dates on the calendar or adjust them as necessary,” Levin said. “One of the main qualifications of being a judge is that you can read a lot of paper. The fact that there’s extra paperwork falls into their skill set.”
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