| After
Defendant Got
Return of
$10000
Retainer
For Mompoint
Now Foucault
Gets Time
Served
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 9 – Kareem
Shepherd was
charged with
access device
fraud in a
scheme
involving a
website called
LuxurySnob. He
retained a
Court Street
lawyer and
paid $10,000.
Then they had
a
disagreement.
A lawyer who
had worked on
his discovery
left, but the
Court Street
lawyer didn't
want to return
the $10,000
retainer after
Shepherd was
appointed a
Criminal
Justice Act
lawyer.
On August 16,
2023 U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Paul G.
Gardephe
convened a
hearing about
the $10,000
retainer.
Inner City
Press was
there, the
only media in
the
courtroom.
Just
before Judge
Gardephe took
the bench, the
dispute
between
detained
inmate and
former lawyer
was resolved.
The
lawyer
recounted
offering a
$1000 refund
then a $3000
refund, both
of which he
said were
rejected.
While Shepherd
confirmed it
was
subsequently
resolved, the
terms weren't
put on the
record.
On
August 31, new
counsel for
co-defendant
Rashaan
Richards wrote
it asking for
more time "to
determine if
there are any
'real
defenses' for
my client or
whether he
should accept
a plea offer."
In
December for
co-defendant
Johnathan
Persaud the US
asked for 12
to 18 months,
noting on
December 7
that he had
stolen 28
credit cards
from his mail
route.
On
December 15,
Persaud got
three years of
probation.
On
January 23,
2024, the US
Attorney's
Office asked
for Shepherd
to get "no
loss than 84
months."
On
January 31 the
US Attorney's
Office for
co-defendant
Louis Jeune
Verly asked
for the 24
month
mandatory
sentences for
aggravated ID
theft.
On
February 7,
Jeane Verly
got the two
year minimum -
then Kareem
Shepherd got
seven years..
On
February 12,
Conrad Heron
got three
years.
On
February 15,
co-defendant
Rashaan
Richards asked
for 48 months
or four years.
On
February 23,
the US
Attorney's
Office by
contrasts
asked for a
minimum of 87
months on
Richards.
On
March 7
Richards got
six years, or
72 months.
On
March 1 for
Fabiola
Mompoint the
US Attorney's
Office asked
for at least
24 months.
On
March 8, with
Judge Gardephe
noting
designer
clothes and
the theft of
credit cards
from the mail
but also
mitigation,
Mompoint got a
one year
sentence.
On
March 25,
co-defendant
Nathanael
Foucault who
worked at USPS
in Astoria,
Queens asked
for a sentence
of time
served.
And
and April 9,
he got it. The
prosecutors
put out a
press release,
FINAL
DEFENDANT
SENTENCED IN
CONNECTION
WITH $1.3
MILLION FRAUD
SCHEME
INVOLVING U.S.
POSTAL
EMPLOYEES
The
case is US v.
Shepherd, et
al., 22-cr-514
(Gardephe)
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