| In Pure
Armenian Blood Case Albert Marutyan Got 51
Months Now Yerkaryan Gets 366 Days
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 3 – Members of Pure
Armenian Blood were charged
with racketeering, identity
theft and access device
fraud.
On January
21, 2022 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Victor Marrero
held a status conference.
Inner City Press covered
it.
The complaint
describes a luxury auto body
shop in New Jersey, and Ghost
Auto & Towing, Inc.
A lawyer
initially appointed to
represent has since bowed out
to another who has entered a
notice of appearance.
On May 20, 2022
Judge Marrero held another
conference, and Inner City
Press again covered it. Judge
Marrero told counsel that
motions to sever are rarely
granted, and denied a motion
about the grand jury wheel. As
to other motions, he asked for
a letter by September 16, with
an eye toward a trial in the
Spring of 2023.
Jump cut to May
30, 2023, when Albert Marutyn
appeared in the SDNY
Magistrate, which Inner City
Press covers daily, and pled
guilty to count 1. Earlier in
the month, a co-defendant
sought and got the right to
seal portions of his
sentencing submission.
On June 2, 2023,
co-defendant Vahe Hovhannisyan
who pled guilty to Count 1 was
sentenced to 364 days in
prison followed by three years
of supervised release, the
first 12 months of which must
"be served in a community
reentry program on consecutive
days."
On June 12, again
in the SDNY Magistrates Court
this time before Magistrate
Judge Ona T. Wang, Narek
Mayutyan pled guilty to Count
One.
On December 29,
2023, counsel to Albert
Marutyan wrote in, noting "an
additional point variance
[downward] due to the fact
that there was a global
disposition involving all the
defendants." He asked for 45
months.
On January 5,
Albert Marutyan was sentenced
to 51 months in prison, then
three years supervised
release, as well as
restitution of $2.9 million.
On February 28
co-defendant Davit Yeghoyan's
lawyer submitted a request for
a sentence reduction - a
request that is mostly
redacted, other than a mention
of earning $150 to $600 weekly
playing on Twitch.
On March 9
co-defendant Paul Mouradian
asked for a non-incarceratory
sentence, recounting that he
was born in Iran (he got
asylum in the US) and that his
brother lives in Armenia and
works construction.
On March 11, the
US Attorney's Office wrote in
asking for at least 15 months,
while acknowledging that
Probation recommends a year
and a day (which would allow
for so-called "good time"). He
got ten: while the leader got
6 years: NAREK MARUTYAN and
SARO MOURADIAN, a/k/a “Paul
Mouradian,” were sentenced
today to six years and 10
months in prison,
respectively.
On May 3,
co-defendant Zaven Yerkaryan
was sentenced to a year and a
day, to allow for so-called
"good time" credit.
The case is US v.
Marutyan, 20-cr-652 (Marrero)
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