| SDNY Judge Torres Recounted
History of Mill Brook Houses Now Release Bid
by Howard
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video, pics
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 8 – When Assistant US
Attorneys Alexandra Rothman
and Jordan Estes wrote their
sentencing submission for Roy
Robinson for narcotics
conspiracy around the Bronx'
Mill Brook Houses, they may
not have known the history of
sentencing Judge Analisa
Torres of the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York. They
asked for 46
months; Judge
Torres gave
time served.
Back on July
24, 2019 while
imposing a
mandatory
minimum
sentence of
five years to
another Mill
Brook Houses
defendant,
Judge Torres
with no other
media in the
courtroom
beyond Inner
City Press
hearkened back
to Hunts Point
in the 1950s.
She said her
parents were
involved in
fighting for
better
housing,
resulting in
part in the
opening of the
Mill Brook
Houses in
1957, two
years before
she was born.
Judge Torres'
sister Pamela
C. Torres died
of leukemia
and the day
care center in
the Mill Brook
Houses was
named for her.
With Defendant
Monge's family
members in the
gallery, Judge
Torres told
them that
these housing
projects had
been a source
of hope when
they were
built. (Any
role of Robert
Moses was not
mentioned).
Now there is
gunfire and
drugs and,
Judge Torres
added, some
people using
the elevators
as toilets.
She urge Mr.
Monge, when he
gets out of
jail, to
become part of
the
solution.
Thank you
Judge, he
said.
Jump
cut to May 8,
2025, when for
co-defendant
Howard his
grandmother
wrote in
asking for
compassionate
release, as
did a CUNY Law
professor.
The
overall case
is USA
v. White, et
al.,
1:18-cr-611
(Torres).
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