High bail set in campaign standoff
The man accused of taking hostages at the Rochester campaign office of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton watched impassively during his video arraignment as he was portrayed alternately as a sick man desperately seeking psychiatric help and a manipulative longtime criminal.
The judge ordered Leeland Eisenberg held on $500,000 cash bail on six felony charges and ordered a psychiatric evaluation for him.
Prosecutor Janice Rundles asked for the high bail, saying Eisenberg, 46, had a long criminal record, including two rape convictions, and would be a threat to the public.
Eisenberg is accused of taking six hostages at Clinton’s storefront office Friday. He eventually surrendered.
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