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SDNY Uber Rip Off Case Louis
Pina Got 39 Months Then
Release Now Revocation Hearing
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope video
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 29– When Louis Pina came
to be sentenced for his role
in a scheme that defrauded and
stole from drivers for Uber
and Lyft in The Bronx on May
6, 2019, the government had in
its sentencing submission
asked for a sentence within
the 61 to 70 month guidelines.
Inner City
Press covered the sentencing,
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge,
Jed Rakoff.
Judge
Rakoff, in between
a SIM card
intellectual
property
case and a
conference in
another business
case sentence
Pina to 39 months.
Pina's lawyer
asked that
Pina be recommended
for the
Residential
Drug Abuse
Program but
Judge Rakoff
said it is
so over subscribed
he is not
comfortable favoring
this defendant
over that one.
Still
Judge Rakoff
did agree that
a reference to
sexual abuse
in the Pre
Sentencing Report
should be cut out
or redacted -
the
government's
sentencing
submission had
redactions.
On July 1,
2020, Judge
Rakoff granted
Louis Pina
compassionate
release.
On December
29, Pina
appeared
before SDNY
Magistrate Judge
Sarah L. Cave on
an alleged
violation of
supervised
release. The
US Attorney's
Office urged
that he be
remanded to
jail, pending
a
January 13
revocation
hearing before
Judge Rakoff.
But
Pina's lawyer,
saying Pina had been
diagnosed with
COVID-19 on
December 11,
urged that he
remain out.
Judge Cave
agreed, albeit
ordering Pina
to return to
500 Pearl
Street for
installation
of a GPS
monitoring
"bracelet." He
said, Thank
you.
The
case is USA
v. Pina,
et al.,
18-cr-00179
(JSR).
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