| In Drug
Conspiracy Case With Wiretaps & Jail
Calls 1 Defendant Detained But Dean
Released
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 2 – Jevaun Charles and
others have been charged in a
narcotics conspiracy, with
guns.
On
August 2, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff
held back to back bond
hearings. Inner City Press
covered them both.
First up
was Jason Gonzalez, with his
step father in the gallery.
The problem was his previous
conviction for attempted
murder. But, his lawyer
pointed out, after that he
worked for Door Dash.
Assistant US
Attorney Jacob Gutwillig
described a jail call to
Gonzalez, telling him to
collect the bread, which
Gutwillig offered meant money,
from street level dealers.
Gonzalez was detained.
Next up
was Israel Gonzalez. His
lawyer pointed out that he had
been the dean of a school, and
had traveled back to the SDNY
by bus after finding out he
was wanted on a warrant.
AUSA
Gutwillig countered that this
return took a month, that they
have a social media posting of
the dean with students
flashing a gang sign, with the
caption, When your students
find out you were the Big
Homie.
Gutwillig
raised another social media
post, of the dean in Panama
saying he wanted to be a
millionaire by the age of 30.
"Isn't
that the American Dream?"
Judge Rakoff remarked. The
dean's supporters and
seemingly his 9-year old
daughter in the gallery perked
up.
His
lawyer turned to the jail call
- it was the dean who had
called Gonzalez - and said it
might have been about raising
bail money. It was a winning
argument. Judge Rakoff said he
would release him to home
detention, on $500,000 bond.
In the gallery, applause. And
now this story.
On July 22 Judge
Rakoff held a requested bond
hearing on Jevaun Charles. It
emerged that Charles, detained
in Essex, has not been
vaccinated.
Judge
Rakoff mused whether he should
consider this, under the Bail
Reform Act, as a danger to the
community - or if getting
vaccinated in a week could be
a condition of release. As it
was it was academic - Charles
was not released.
The overall case
is US v. Charles, et al.,
21-cr-412 (Rakoff)
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