| Chocron of
Spain Laundered $500,000 of Bribes To
Brazil Pols Pled to 37 Months Gets 9
Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 27 – A man from Spain
pleaded guilty to money
laundering on March 16, 2021.
He explained in
his allocution that it was
addiction to gambling that let
him to do it.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jed S. Rakoff held the
change of plea proceeding,
after a full day of presiding
over the US v. Weigand Eaze
marijuana credit card sales
trial. Inner City Press
covered both.
The
defendant from Spain explained
he was in Miami, with gambling
related money problems, and
over coffee he was convince to
go "meet a few people."
He got a letter
from the Government estimating
his sentencing guideline at 37
to 46
months.
The US Attorney's
Office said, "CHOCRON
laundered more than $500,000
in funds that had been
represented to him to be the
proceeds of a scheme to bribe
Brazilian political officials,
using a network and bank
accounts to which he had
access by virtue of his
operation of an unlicensed
money transmitting business."
When the
sentencing was held on August
27, Inner City Press also
covered it. The defendant's
lawyer said his client
couldn't speak but he did,
(mis) answering a question
about medication then
clarifying that he could, in
fact, understand.
His lawyer said
he can't walk and would just
like to return to Spain. He
quoted to Judge Rakoff from
his writings.
Judge
Rakoff said that some jail
time was required, but arrived
at nine months, with no
supervised release afterward
since he consents to removal.
He will self-surrender in two
months, seemingly to FCI
Miami.
The defense
lawyer, 72, ended with a
reference to ballroom dancing.
Judge Rakoff joked that when
the lawyer is 78 like he his,
he'll be into ballroom dancing
too.
The case is
US v. Morely Chocron,
20-cr-400 (Rakoff).
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