| After NYCHA
Extortion Take Down Baez Pled
Guilty Now Gets Probation
Disputes Restitution
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Sept 4– For days Inner City
Press had heard from its
sources there would be a
"takedown" on February 6, each
SDNY Magistrate Judge would
handle seven to 10 defendants.
Arrests happen at
6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City
Press tweeted it, first to X
subscribers with the spoiler
alert: the expectation was
that each of the current or
former NYCHA employees would
be released on bond the same
day.
And then hours
later at 9:39 am the
prosecutors announced it.
Media rushed around reporting
it. Inner City Press had
it first, and after discretely
waiting, published it first.
Then this thread of
presentments, here.
On April 25,
James Baez pled guilty to a
misdemeanor, taking $2,600.
On August 19,
Baez through counsel asked for
time served.
On August 26, the
US Attorney's Office asked for
eight months imprisonment.
On September 4,
Judge Tarnofsky sentenced Baez
to 12 months probation and
$2600 restitution. Baez's
lawyer disputed the speed or
rate at which it should be
paid; the Assistant US
Attorney pointed to $5000 in a
bank account.
On August 22, as
other defendants cite the
Supreme Court's Snyder
decision, Johnson's lawyer
wrote in asking for a time
served sentence on September
5.
The case is US v.
Baez, 24-cr-256 (Tarnofsky)
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