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In SDNY Alleged Gang Member Ruffat Now Pleads Guilty As US Said on MLK Day

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 5 – On Friday August 28, 2020 a defendant was processed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrates Court, and was ordered detained at least until September 15. Inner City Press covered it.

   It was before 5 pm when a defendant named Ruffat appeared before SDNY Magistrate Judge Debra C. Freeman. CJA lawyer Grainne O'Neill - she spelled her name and said it was Irish - argued for release on bond. 

 But Assistant US Attorney Alexandra Rothman alleged gang membership, and said that the assigned District Judge, John G. Koeltl, had scheduled a proceeding on September 15.   

Ruffat was ordered detained as a danger to the community.

On January 18, MLK Day, AUSA Rothman  filed a letter with Judge Koeltl that "the Government understands that that defendant intends to withdraw his previous plea of not guilt and enter a plea of guilty... on February 5."

And on February 5, in a proceeding before Judge Koeltl that Inner City Press again covered, it happened: guilty plea to Count 1. Sentencing is set for May 7.

The case is US v. Ruffat, 20-cr-438 (Koeltl / Freeman). 

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