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March 1998. The Hyde Amendment: Congress Creates a Toehold for Curbing Wrongful Prosecution. By Elkan Abramowitz & Peter Scher. Elkan Abramowitz , a principal in Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, P.C., is a former Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.