Lawyer repping accused Gilgo Seaside killer Rex Heuermann’s spouse is an ex-con

The Lengthy Island divorce lawyer representing the Gilgo Seaside homicide suspect’s estranged spouse is an ex-con as soon as convicted of cocaine possession. 

Asa Ellerup, who filed for divorce from accused serial killer Rex Heuermann a couple of week after his July 13 arrest, employed legal professional Robert Macedonio to characterize her within the break up.

Macedonio, 56, began his profession as a Suffolk County assistant district legal professional, however pleaded responsible in 2008 to felony cocaine possession, and noticed his regulation license revoked because of this.

A prison protection lawyer on the time, Macedonio was arrested for possessing no less than half a gram of cocaine — which was the only real results of a year-long probe by the DA’s office into different prison exercise they believed Macedonio to be partaking in, together with witness tampering and high-level drug crimes, in accordance with 2016 Newsday report.

The DA later decreased the felony conviction to a misdemeanor with out clarification, which allowed the lawyer to regain his license, in accordance with studies. 

The transfer sparked a federal probe of the workplace, News12 reported on the time. A spokesman for the US Legal professional’s workplace in Brooklyn, which handles such investigations, refused to verify any probe.

“Everybody who was concerned in that decision-making course of is lengthy gone from right here. . . . We actually can’t converse for the decision-making of the oldsters who have been in cost earlier than we acquired right here,” stated a Suffolk County DA’s Workplace spokesperson.

“It’s as troubling as circumstances go when you may see widespread criminality and fraud by Mr. Macedonio,” stated Bennett Greshman, a Tempo Legislation Faculty professor and former prosecutor, of the “sweetheart deal” given to Macedonio.

Macedonio didn’t instantly reply to messages.

Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to six counts of murder — three within the first diploma and one other three within the second diploma — for the killings of Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello and Melissa Barthelemy, whose our bodies have been discovered on the shore of Gilgo Seaside in December, 2010.