| Bail Denied To Bomba Charged
With Narco Money Laundering Despite Support of
Rabbi
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 18 -- Emiliano Bomba is
charged with money laundering
for narco traffickers in
Mexico. On February 21 he
appeared with supporters
including a Rabbi offering to
put up his house as security,
at a bond hearing before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer.
The
underlying criminal case is
before SDNY Judge Denise L.
Cote. But she is away, and
Judge Engelmayer is hearing
her and others' cases.
Defense lawyer
Telesforo Del Valle, Jr.
proposed a bail package
including the Rabbi's house;
he said Bomba's mother has
come to New York and rented an
apartment.
Judge
Engelmayer credited Del
Valle's advocacy but said it
would be easy for the Bomba
family to forego the security
deposit on the apartment, and
even to pay back the Rabbi for
his house if it were
seized.
Assistant US
Attorney Sebastian Swett cited
annual revenue for Bomba of
$800,000 to $1.4 million.
Judge Engelmayer noted that
Bomba has no ties to the
United States and faces some
ten years in prison is
convicted.
So Judge
Engelmayer denied the bail
application. Bomba was taken
away in shackled by the U.S.
Marshals and Del Valle
conferred with the family and
Rabbi out in the hallway. The
case is US v. Bomba, 19-cr-463
(Cote).
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