| In SDNY Vizzari Is Freed Due
To Coronavirus But Ordered To Get An iPhone
For Monitoring
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 18 --
Gino Vizzari has his
sentencing on drug charges
postponed on March 17 before
Judge Vernon S. Broderick of
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York.
But that
meant he would remain in the
Metropolitan Corrections
Center, amid Coronavirus, with
a diagnosis of emphysema and
COPD.
His lawyer
Deborah Colson, citing a
Coronavirus bail grant earlier
in the week by SDNY Judge
Alison Nathan, reported by
Inner City Press, asked Judge
Broderick for a bond
hearing.
On March
20, Judge Broderick ordered
that Vizzari should be freed
to a Single Room Occupancy
housing unit supplied by
HASA.
In a
becoming standard condition
for Coronavirus release in the
SDNY, Vizzara was ordered to
"obtain a phone with
[F]acetime capabilities for
monitoring purposes."
Later on
March 20 in another proceeding
covered only by Inner City
Press, SDNY Chief Magistrate
Judge Gabriel Gorenstein told
a defendant he was freeing on
that condition that there
might be money available for
an iPhone.
One wag
noted that Apple is becoming a
tool for monitoring. But for
Mr. Vizzari, this makes sense.
The case is US v. Vizzari,
19-cr-767 (Broderick).
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