| After Fraudulent Checks
Defendant Rents Barber Storefront and SDNY Judge Broderick Puts Off
Sentencing
By Matthew
Russell Lee Patreon
@SDNYLIVE
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 30 – A man who pled
guilty to cashing tens of
thousands of dollars of
fraudulent checks was set to
be sentenced on August 30 -
but wasn't.
His lawyer said
that he recently rented a
storefront to become a barber.
The sentencing has been
delayed pending more
information on if any jail
time would hurt the start-up
business. It happened in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
in the courtroom of Judge
Vernon S. Broderick. With two
dozen of the defendant's
family and friends in the
gallery, Judge Broderick asked
Assistant US Attorney
Elizabeth Espinosa how much
money the defendant Joshua
Rodriguez really got. (It
appears AUSA Espinosa was
standing in for the two other
AUSA listed in the sentencing
submission, Daniel Nessim and
Jarrod Schaeffer).
Then
Rodriguez' lawyer Grainne E.
O'Neill described the
barbershop, not yet open.
Judge Broderick inquired into
the length of the lease, how
much Rodriguez would be hurt
if he put "put in," meaning
jail.
Amid
reactions in the gallery he
may or may not have been aware
of, Judge Broderick did not
sentence Rodriguez. Instead he
gave O'Neill until September
20 to submit more about how
the barber shop could not run,
nor any lease money be
returned, if there is any jail
time. AUSA Espinosa or her
colleagues then have a week to
respond. Then Broderick may or
may not choose another day to
impose sentence. The case is
US v. Rodriguez, 19-cr-12,
with many citations to
11-cr-59 (Lewis A. Kaplan).
Previously
before Judge Broderick: more
than a year ago, Sajid Javed
pled guilty to $7 million of
Medicade fraud through seven
pharmacies, charging for
prescription drugs never
dispensed to customers.
Usually the gap between a plea
and sentencing is far less.
But in this case Javed
contested the loss amount, and
his doctor wife was continuing
in a medical residency. This
last arose on April 26 in the
SDNY courtroom of Judge
Broderick.
Javed's
lawyer said his client stood
out in his support of his
wife's career because, he
said, there is resistance to
female doctors in their native
Pakistan. Then he asked that
actually going to jail be put
off into the summer... of
2020.
Judge
Broderick wondered if this was
even possible, and said he did
not like long gaps between
imposing sentence and it
beginning to be served, since
things can change. While
called it unusual, he allowed
Javed's doctor wife to speak
from the gallery. She said due
to her age, 39, she is already
old for the residency. By next
year, she said, her four year
old son will be in soon. He
meanwhile was eating Lay's
potato chips and looking up
smiling over the gallery bench
at Inner City Press, the only
media present (which joked
back).
Eventually
the sentencing was put off.
The Assistant US Attorney said
she would speak with Javed's
lawyer. [More including on
backround and counsel and
index number
here on Patreon.]
Somewhere else in the SDNY,
a nineteen year old was being
sentenced to four years to
begin this
and not next summer.
***
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