| In Federal Butner Jail
Guiliano Had COVID and Raw Onion For Dinner
Decision Reserved
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 8 – Robert Guiliano is in
Federal prison for wire fraud
to defraud produce growers and
shippers. He is also COVID-19
positive.
On May 8
he sough release from FCI
Butner medical prison, before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge P. Kevin Castel. Inner
City Press covered it.
His lawyer Elliot
Fuld of the Grand Concourse in
The Bronx told Judge Castel
about a Butner inmate who said
he felt fine then died. He
said Guiliano's bed in Butner
is one foot away from another
inmates: "there is no social
distancing."
Fuld
said Assistant US Attorney
Timothy Capozzi's presentation
about Guiliano's menu in
Butner is false - he is
getting "raw onion, it's
ridiculous."
Inner City
Press has looked in the docket
and found the onion reference.
Fuld wrote, "Yesterday for his
boxed dinner he was given a
whole raw green pepper, a
whole yellow onion, hard
boiled egg, pieces of bread
and packets of peanut
butter."
By contrast, ASUA Capozzi
filed a "Weekly Menu - As
Served" Butner FCC with an
illegible signature of a Food
Service Administrator. There's
was lunch with boiled eggs -
but it has tater tots and
salsa, and cheddar cheese. No
raw onion anywhere.
Judge
Castel said, At the moment, no
one on this call would wish
COVID-19 on anyone. It's a
scourge on the
population. He was sent
out to the Duke Medical Center
on May 1 and returned on the
same day. Butner has 31
inmates positive.
Judge Castel said
he is concerned for the
defendant, he thinks about
him, how could he not. He
asked why his lawyer Fuld
hasn't asked the Bureau of
Prisons to furlough him.
Fuld
replied that the BOP is slow.
Judge Castel said, Congress
has a 30 day requirement.
Where does a judge get off
changing it to 14 days? Some
call that judicial
tyranny.
Fuld said,
In this case no one would call
it judicial tyranny.
Judge Castel said, I'll
reserve on that. I'll put this
off a week, and we'll see if
the defendant applies to the
BOP, or if the US Attorney's
Office agrees to not require
exhaustion. In the meanwhile
Mr. Guiliani will be in my
thoughts. The case is US v.
Guiliano, 18-cr-548
(Castel).
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