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Bar Works Fraudster Moore Gets 140 Months Recommendation for FCI Miami For Real Estate

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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 1 –  James Moore has been incarcerated for his role in defrauding investors in "Bar Works [which] purported to be a company that adapted former restaurant, bar premises and other locations into co-working spaced with 'workspaces' for rent to the public in exchange for a membership fee."

   By February 2020, Moore's lawyer Michael Grudberg was telling U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Richard M. Berman that he had reached out to Moore on CorrLinks to get a waiver of appearance. 

  Judge Berman asked, "What is CorrLinks?"

    Grudberg replied that "it is not a privileged email system for purposes of counsel, but it's a relatively 24-hour communications system."

  Inner City Press can attest to this, receiving CorrLinks emails about the worsening conditions in the prisons at all hours. 

 Judge Berman said, "CorrLinks, first I'm hearing it, actually... Long time, years?  

Grudberg replied, I would say about a decade, your Honor.. I use it as a stopgap.

   On April 16, 2020 there was news of the transfer of Moore to FMC Butner.

Jump cut to February 1, 2022, when Moore came up for sentencing before Judge Berman. Inner City Press once again covered it. Moore and his counsel argued that he was less guilty than others. And, on a guideline of 262 to 327 months, Judge Berman sentenced Moore to 140 months, which will be minus the four years he's already served. Moore's lawyer asked for a recommendation to FCI Miami, saying Moore's wife has real estate in Miami. Recommendation made.

Then this: "U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “James Moore partnered with notorious fraudster Renwick Haddow to design a massive Ponzi scheme that lured hundreds of unsuspecting investors from around the world, and from which Moore and affiliated companies siphoned 65 percent of each of their recruited victims’ investments.  Moore then obstructed justice and lied about the scheme to federal agents.  Today’s lengthy sentence sends a clear message that perpetrators of investment fraud will be prosecuted and held accountable.”

This case is US v. Moore, 18-cr-759 (Berman). 

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