| Man In MDC
Jail With COVID Was Stabbed To Force Him
Out So Gets 2 Years For Bank Fraud
By Matthew
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SDNY COURT Exclusive,
May 4 – A man who caught COVID
in the Metropolitan Detention
Center in Brooklyn while on
pre-trial detention on bank
fraud charges was "jumped and
stabbed by a group of angry
inmates who objected to his
presence on their unit."
They
wanted him out or quarantined
and so that stabbed
him.
On May 4, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Paul G.
Gardephe held an in-person
sentencing proceeding for the
man, Robert Tramel Jacquan
Richards. Inner City Press
covered it.
Judge
Gardephe ran though the facts
that Richards had pleaded
guilty to, including cashing
false checks in Flushing Bank
($81,000) and Wells Fargo. He
said Richards' father had been
addicted to crack and absent,
and mentioned Richards three
children - one of whom, a
baby, appeared to be in the
courtroom gallery.
Given his
criminal history, Richards
faced a guidelines sentencing
of 30 to 37 months.
Citing the
conditions in the MDC -
including the stabbing - Judge
Gardephe varied downward to
two years, to be followed by
three years of supervised
release.
The case is US v.
Richards, 20-cr-397
(Gardephe)
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