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SDNY For Money Laundering
Conspiracy Elcock Gets 57
Months But Grenada May Not
Take Him Back
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope,
Photos
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 16 – When Mickel Elcock
came for sentencing after
stealing at least $1.5 million
from other people's credit
cards to support himself for
ten years, he faced another
problem. Elcock came into the
US from Grenada at age five;
he has no documents for it and
faces deportation after
serving prison time.
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Victor Marrero
listened as
Elcock's
lawyer said his had
been no more
than a middle
class life
style, and JPMorgan
Chase and Best
Buy were the
victims, the
consumers got
their money
back. But
after how
much hassle
and worse? The
lawyer asked
for one year.
The guidelines
called for 68
to 78 months;
Probation suggested 63. Judge
Marrero went
with 53 month and,
he said, no
supervised
release since
Elcock will be
deported.
The
Assistant US
Attorney cut
in to say
it is possible
that Grenada
will not
accept Elcock
back. Then
what? Judge
Marrero tacked on
three years of
supervised
release. In the
gallery, where
Inner City
Press was the
only media,
there was a
man in a
Cybercrime
Task force
t-shirt,
shaking his
head.
Back on June 13
when Elcock's girlfriend and
co-defendant Shoshana Marie
McGill came to be
sentenced after pleading
guilty to money laundering
conspiracy, her lawyer like
Probation argued for no jail
time. Assistant US Attorney
Sarah Lai urged a sentence
within the Guidelines: 37 to
46 months in prison.
Judge
Marrero
rejected
McGill's and
her lawyer's
argument that
she played
only a minor
role in the
conspiracy,
which involved
buying
people's
identities
and stealing
their money.
But he
gave weight
to the face
that McGill's
co-conspirator
was the
father of her
three
children,
Jason Mickel
Elcock, who he said
is likely to
be deported
after serving
jail time.
There were
two dozen
family members
and supporters
in the
gallery. AUSA Lai
tried to argue
that this
showed that
they could
take care of
McGill's three
children
while she did
jail time.
McGill's
lawyer called
this disingenuous,
saying We
don't know who
these people
are, they have
jobs, they
have their own
kids.
Judge
Marrero after
some lead-up
said, Five
years probation. There were
signs of relief in
the gallery. Then he
added, 90 days
in a re-entry
center (half
way house),
to be served
on weekends.
Some of the relief seemed
to disappear.
Then Judge
Marrero
added, Six
month home
confinement.
No one, it
seemed, was
happy. The
case is USA
v. Elcock,
et al., 18-cr-726
(Marrero).
***
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