| Victim of 2002 Tel Aviv
Bombing Gets 1 Year For 15 Kilo Cocaine
Conspiracy Before SDNY Judge Furman
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 18 -- Eli Dana pled guilty
to participating in a
conspiracy to distribute
between five and fifteen
kilograms of cocaine.
When he
came to be sentenced on
February 25 before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jesse M. Furman, the
defense's sentencing
submission asking for time
served was not yet publicly
available. Inner City Press
attended.
Judge
Furman appeared to approve the
withholding, after the fact,
of the mental health
information that formed the
basis for requesting a time
served sentence. He chafed,
however, with the redaction
from the still-not-available
defense sentencing submission
of descriptions of the conduct
of
conspirators.
For the
press, of course, it is
difficult to contest
redactions in a document that
is entirely withheld. But it
appears that beyond Mordechai
Ozan, whom Judge Furman
sentenced but now acknowledged
he may not have had a full
picture of, apparently due to
more government withholding,
there is another
co-conspirator whom the
government does not want to
name, which is fine with the
defense.
Inner City Press
will remain on the case, for
precedential reasons. Eli Dana
has laudable qualities -
working each each at a stall
in Tel Aviv after his cafe was
destroyed by a suicide bomber
in 2002. But Federal courts
are public place, or are
supposed to be.
Judge Furman
sentenced Eli Dana to a year
and a day, and project that
once that is done (time
imprisoned waiting
extradition, and after his
guilty plea, will be
subtracted), he is open to
modifying Supervised Release
to allow Eli Dana to return to
Israel.
Perhaps this is
how justice should be for all,
or at least more, defendants.
The case is US v. Dana,
14-cr-405 (Furman).
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