| Money
Laundering Defendant Describes Rats In MCC
Gets Time Served Then Flight to Peru
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 23 – Guillermo Jean
Pierre Zagarra-Martinez
pleaded guilty to money
laundering; he faced a
guideline sentence of 30 to 37
months then deportation to
Peru.
On September 23
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Vernon S. Broderick held
his sentencing. Inner City
Press covered it.
Zararra-Martinez'
lawyer Sabrina Shroff, though
constrained by the guilty
plea, directed Judge Broderick
to the fact that it was the
U.S. government that was
behind the conspiracy that her
client joined.
She directed
Judge Broderick to a recent
ruling by his fellow SDNY
Judge J. Paul Oetken in US
v. Bokov / Litvintsuk,
18-cr-678 (JPO).
Zararra-Martinez
himself spoke about the
conditions in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center, with rats
and lockdown.
He said his
lawyer has called to read him
AUSA Jacob H. Gutwillig's
sentencing submission, which
he called dismissive of health
concerns. Gutwillig wrote that
"the defendant's medical
charts describe consultations
and treatment with MCC staff
in January and May 2020,
including May 2020 during
which the defendant's sole
complaint
[REDACTED]."
Judge Broderick
before imposing sentence cited
two other recent lockdowns in
the MCC, the first due to the
"suicide of an inmate"
[Jeffrey Epstein's death] and
the other due to the search
for a firearm.
Then Judge
Broderick imposed a sentence
of 18 months. Since 28 months
have already been served, it
is effectively time served. It
was said that ICE flights, to
Peru and presumably elsewhere,
start again on October 1.
The case is US v.
Zagarra-Martinez, 15-cr-395
(Broderick).
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