| Doctor
Cruciani Gets $2M Release Conditions For
Sexual Abuse of Patients in NY NJ PA
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY MAG COURT
EXCLUSIVE, Oct 20 –
A former pain
management doctor who has been
indicted for sexually abusing
female patients in three
states for fifteen years was
offered bail conditions to be
released on the evening of
October 20. Inner City Press
was there.
Mid-day it was
announced that "Damian
Williams, the United States
Attorney for the Southern
District of New York,
announced that RICARDO
CRUCIANI was arrested this
morning and charged in
connection with his sexual
abuse of numerous pain
management patients over the
course of over 15 years.
The Indictment unsealed today
alleges that from at least in
or about 2002 up to and
including at least in or about
2017, CRUCIANI enticed and
induced multiple victims to
travel to his medical offices
in New York, New York,
Hopewell, New Jersey, and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to
subject them to unlawful
sexual abuse. CRUCIANI
was arrested this morning and
is expected to be presented
later today before U.S.
Magistrate Judge Robert W.
Lehrburger in Manhattan
federal court."
Inner City
Press went to the SDNY
Magistrates Court but was
initially barred from
entering. The overflow room,
Courtroom 15A, was locked, and
there was no listen-only
call-in line.
After managing to
enter to ask, What about the
press, a back bench spot was
offered, along with a pointed
question about the Press'
authorized cell phone: "Is
that a recording
device?"
After a
case in which Magistrate Judge
Lehrburger granted the US
Attorney's Office's request to
detain in the MDC jail in
Brooklyn until trial an
asthmatic man from Burkina
Faso, employed in food
delivery, for enticing two
14-year old girls to have sex,
Cruciani was brought
in.
Cruciani wore a
sweater and blew a kiss to a
woman in the gallery, where
Inner City Press was the only
media. Just then Inner City
Press was told, as it tried to
inform another reporter that
the long-delayed presentment
of Cruciani had begun, it was
told, They don't want you
using your phone while they're
talking.
The Assistant US
Attorney said that with
Cruciani's retained
(self-paid) lawyer a bail
package had been agreed to: a
$2 million personal
recognisance bond signed by
three financially responsible
people and secured by
properties in Winwood,
Pennsylvania and Jersey City,
New Jersey. Cruciani worked at
Mount Sinai. There is a
petition online here.
The disparity
with the Burkinabe food
deliveryman, and the initially
barring of the Press, were not
explained. (To be fair, the
SDNY is generally open, see
for example orders by Judges
Jed S. Rakoff here
and Jesse M. Furman on
Avenatti, here).
This case is US
v. Cruciani, 21-cr-636 (Cronan
/ Lehrburger)
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