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Andrea Sneiderman trial enters second week.
When we last saw Andrea Sneiderman, she was listening as investigators testified that she didn’t bother to mention important details about her relationship with her boss until after he was charged with killing her husband.
“She never directly said that she believed (Hemy Neuman) was responsible for the murder of Rusty (Sneiderman),” Dunwoody Deputy Police Chief David Sides said. “The first time we ever heard anything about (that) was Jan. 5 (2011)” — one day after Neuman’s arrest.
Rusty Sneiderman was killed outside a metro Atlanta preschool in November 2010. Her former boss Neuman was later convicted in the killing.
Prosecutors on Friday played videotape of that interview in which Sneiderman, on trial on charges including perjury, repeatedly said her supervisor at GE Energy was “crazy.” She had previously told police, in an interview on Nov. 19, the day after Rusty Sneiderman was gunned down outside the Dunwoody Prep day care, that Neuman had made a pass at her, but added she had made it clear she would not leave her husband and that the two remained friends.
Sneiderman did not inform investigators that Neuman had asked her to marry him, Sides testified. She also failed to disclose a phone call she placed to Neuman following that first interview with police in which she allegedly asked him whether he had shot Rusty Sneiderman.
“If we had known Hemy Neuman had professed marriage to Mrs. Sneiderman, we would’ve gone and found him right then … the moment we found out that information,” Sides said.
That’s where the trial will pick up on Monday as defense lawyers get their shot at cross-examining Sides.
Sides testified Sneiderman did not inform investigators that Neuman had asked her to marry him, something that would have prompted more investigation.
“The defense has and will point out that Andrea gave Hemy’s name in her first interview with police,” says WSB legal analyst Ron Carlson. “The state’s response: she also threw out the names of their exterminator, their lawn man and people who were financially disappointed as a result of Rusty’s involvement in their investment strategies.”
Andrea Sneiderman, 37, faces 13 felony counts that also include charges of making false statements to police and hindering the apprehension of a criminal. She has denied engaging in an inappropriate relationship with Neuman, sentenced to life in prison last year for fatally shooting Rusty Sneiderman.
Prosecutors initially charged Sneiderman with murder, saying she orchestrated her husband's slaying. But those charges were dropped just days before the trial.







