| Yoga To The People Founder
Gumucio Free on $250,000 Bond with Free
Lawyer, Mentor on Lam
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 31– Yoga To The People
founder Gregory Gumucio was
indicted for tax fraud this
month.
On August 31 the
prosecutors sought to impose a
$1,000,000 bond and home
incarceration. Instead they
got a $250,000 bond and GPS -
and Gumicio got a free (or tax
payer funded)
lawyer.
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Jennifer E.
Willis, on duty this week,
held the bond hearing. Inner
City Press was in the
Magistrates Court, as usual,
and live tweeted it here:
OK - now in
Magistrates court for US v
Greg Gumucio of Yoga To The
People, for tax fraud.
Somehow he has a
free Federal Defender. DOJ
says Gumucio made $1.6 million
in cash, stacks on St Marks
Place. He has sworn he is
eligible in a sealed
affidavit
Inner City Press
has won orders unsealing
financial affidavits of
Avenatti, a Honduras narco
(Tigre Bonilla) and Dr.
Ricardo Cruciani (RIP). US is
agreeing to bail - $1 million
bond. But he has publicly paid
lawyer?!?
AUSA: Washinton
state (Federal) court doesn't
usually require bond, or ban
guns. We want both.
Federal
Defender: We oppose.
AUSA: He is
a risk of witness tampering
and intimidation. He used
nominees. We have his emails.
He had $30,000 in cash in his
guitar case. [And now?]
AUSA: He spent
$40,000 on NFL season
tickets... $75,000 on hotels.
His travel included Israel,
China, Taiwan, and to his
mentor in Mexico.
AUSA: His mentor
fled a US arrest warrant. He
went to see him in Acapulco.
He could work there.
AUSA: He has been arrested 15
times. He fled a Colorado
warrant. He opened yoga
studios in other people's
names. He lives 6 hours' drive
from Canada. He groomed young
women...
AUSA:
These traumatized women were
offered the illusory title of
yoga studio owner. He was
friends with a member of
Organized Crime who hung
around the hot yoga studio.
AUSA: He
went to the yoga studio of a
breakaway former member and
lay on the floor, not engaging
in yoga. Then he screamed,
Don't talk about my life! Do
you know what I can do to you?
Judge: How
close to him in Washington
state are the witnesses? AUSA:
Within 2 or 3 hours.
Federal Defender:
Your Honor as you are well
aware the Government has the
burden. Home confinement is
not necessary.
FD: He should be
able to go to Oregon, like his
partner [and co-defendant
Haven Soliman]. His landlord
used to be with Yoga To The
People.
Judge: I'm not
going to give any weight to
his past criminal history. The
mentor in Mexico, maybe.
FD: He works as a
consultant to "Cohen Vision."
Today he missed two of his
kids' first day of school; he
wouldn't be able to go to his
daughter's fast pitch
[softball] practice. FD:
He hasn't visited the mentor
in Mexico since 2019. [COVID]
FD: Here in
court are his brother and
adult son. FD: We don't know
the tone of his threat.
AUSA: He and his
partner both work remotely
from home. He's trying to use
his kids. He has relatives in
Bolivia, and yoga in Israel
and Spain. In-person physical
fitness took a hit in the
pandemic.
FD: His mentor
doesn't live in Mexico
anymore.
Judge is
working on laptop, before
ruling.
Judge:
There'll be 3 co-signers on a
$250,000 bond. No home
incarceration. Just GPS.
Oregon for sports activities
in Portland. Not within sixty
miles of Canada border.
Long
whispered sidebar. Is it being
recorded so could be
transcribed?
Brother not
signing, even as moral
suasion. Adjourned.
The other
co-defendant is Michael
Anderson.
The case is US v.
Gumucio, et al., 22-mj-6904
(Willis)
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