| Jona Rechnitz Gets 10 Month
Sentence from SDNY Judge Hellerstein Jeweler
to Kardashians
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
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Source
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 19 – When government
cooperator Jona Rechnitz came
up for sentencing on December
19 before U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Alvin K.
Hellerstein, Assistant US
Attorney Martin Bell urged
leniency.
Bell said that so
that Rechnitz can continue to
pay restitution, he should
remain free in order to keep
selling jewelry to the
Kardashians.
Rechnitz mentioned that he had
raised major funds for the
Mayor of New York City, but it
went to his head.
Rechnitz'
lawyer Alan Levine questioned
why older men like Norman
Seabrook and Murray Huberfeld
would have used the younger
Rechnitz as a "bag man."
Background from Inner City
Press previous stories on
Seabrook here, and Huberfeld
here.
Judge
Hellerstein took a ten minute
break. When he returned, as
live tweeted by Inner
City Press, he said "The
concept of the just punishment
is impossible to achieve.
Nonetheless. I have to punish.
I gave Mr. Seabrook 58 months.
I gave Mr. Huberfeld 30
months. I think the just
punishment here is ten
months."
But that
was not the end, rather a form
of new beginning. Rechnitz'
lawyer Levine first said his
client would only have to
spend five months incarcerated
- then tried to put the number
at one month. He asked for
Lompoc or Taft by Los Angeles,
if it it still open, he said.
More on
Patreon
here.
While AUSA Bell cited the time
service sentence for UN briber
Francis Lorenzo, also subject
to an over-the-top 5K1 letter
from the US Attorney, no one
mentioned for example
cooperated Daniel Hernandez
a/k/a Tekashi 6ix9ine, given
24 months by Judge Engelmayer
just the day before. Nor the
much harsher sentence given
out to other defendants in the
SDNY. We'll have more on this
case. This case is US v.
Rechnitz, 16-cr-389
(Hellerstein)
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