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Shulaya
Enterprise
Boxer
Khurtsidze
Disputes
Above-Guidelines
Re-Sentencing
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CEFC
Video, Scope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 7 – On March 26, 2019
when Eleonora
Podilska
appeared for a
jail sentence
prior to being
deported to
Ukraine, U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New YOrk
Judge
Loretta Preska
was told how
Podilska made
Christmas
ornaments in
the MCC jail
and saw her
dream of
opening a
dance school
in the U.S.
crushed by her
guilty plea.
The
government's
sentencing
letter said,
"Podilska
pleaded guilty
on December
20, 2018, to a
one-count
indictment
(the
“Indictment”)
charging her
with
racketeering
conspiracy.
Podilska was
charged with
her limited
role in a
credit card
theft
conspiracy and
her more
principal role
in a scheme to
seduce and rob
men identified
as targets by
members of the
Shulaya
Enterprise.
The Government
respectfully
submits that a
sentence
within the
stipulated
Guidelines
range of 15 to
21 months is
appropriate in
this case." In
the end Judge Preska, who the
day before heard of UN briber
Patrick Ho playing the violin
the MCC, went slightly below,
at one year and one day. She
wished Podilska well, with her
special needs son and what her
lawyer called the bad
conditions in Ukraine.
Jump cut
to September 7, 2021, when
co-defendant Avtandil
Khurtsidze is coming up for
re-sentencing. His lawyer
complains that he is the only
one for whom the US Attorney's
Office is asking for an
above-guidelines sentence.
He's been a model inmate, it's
said. He flew to America from
the Republic of Georgia hoping
to continue his "rising boxing
career." Then he was arrested
for his participation in
aspects of the Shulaya
Enterprise.
The case was
United States v. Shulaya, 17
Cr. 350 (LAP).
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