Mealey's (October 18, 2022, 10:29 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A woman charged in connection with her role in orchestrating a fraudulent mortgage debt assistance program is not entitled to a new trial based on her allegations that her pretrial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to transmit a plea offer from government prosecutors to the woman before it expired because the woman waived her appellate argument when she chose to proceed to trial after receiving the details of the plea offer, a divided Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed Oct. 14....