A Saratoga city court judge is among nine defendants in a federal lawsuit filed by a New York City lawyer who contends he was maliciously prosecuted in the 1990s because he had opposed Brooklyn's powerful Democratic machine.Saratoga Judge Jeffrey Wait was a state Board of Elections deputy counsel when he made several trips at the time from Albany to Brooklyn as part of an investigation into whether activist John O'Hara had used a fake address when he registered to vote.O'Hara in 1997 was convicted of false voter registration and illegal voting after then-Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes found he had registered to vote at a girlfriend's address that was 12 blocks from his official residence.

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