| Lorraine Shanley Stole
$400000 From NYPD Widows Now Gets 2 Years
After No Answers To Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon, Periscope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 14 -- Lorraine Shanley
stole $400,000 from a
foundation for the families of
New York City Police
Department officers killed in
the line of duty. Then she got
a plea deal for 27 to 33
months, said in court in
September that she had gotten
permission to take the money
and refused to answer the
Press on her way out as to
where she claimed to have
gotten approval. Periscope
video here.
Now on
January 14 Shanley has been
sentenced to two years in
prison for bank fraud and
subscribing to false and
fraudulent individual income
tax returns. We'll have more
on this.
Back on
September 20 it was a routine
change of plea agreement until
Shanley began to justify her
actions, usually a no-no when
pleading guilty. She said it
had been approved, and that
the money was for her own kids
including a grandson with
problems.
But on the
way out her lawyer said "no
comment." Inner City Press
asked Shanley directly, Who
gave you approval, according
to you?
"I said we
have no comment," the lawyer
said, remaining silent on the
elevator down to the lobby.
Inner City Press asked again
on the way to Foley Square, as
Shanley walked away in the
sunlight next to the Climate
Strike protest. And now,
two years. And, from Elizabeth
Williams, to Inner City Press
with permission:
Previously
before Judge Stein: a man
convicted of seeking sex with
what he was told was a 12 year
old girl, and who repeatedly
turned down a five year
minimum plea deal offered by
the U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York,
was convicted by the jury on
September 11 of attempted
enticement of a child.
It would
appear he should have taken
the deal.
The
defendant Muhammed Waqar will
be sentenced on October 23
with a 10 year mandatory
minimum. But on September 11
the government argued for
immediate remand to detention,
even pending sentencing.
A senior
Assistant US Attorney showed
up in the back of the
courtroom on the bench next to
Inner City Press; he send
something by phone to the AUSA
at the front table. They
argued that remand was
mandatory under 18 USC
3143(2).
That
tracks to another section,
3142(f)(1)(B) which does seem
to make remand required for
cases involving possible life
sentences. But
SDNY Judge
Sidney H.
Stein,
helping Waqar's lawyer,
pointed to Section 3145,
allowing for release in
exceptional circumstances. And
what might those be?
Waqar has
been working in a Dunkin
Donuts. He has a wife and a
young child. The government
said these are not exceptional
circumstances. Judge Stein,
showing mercy, said that and
Waqar's heretofore justice
system-less life made the
case. He expedited sentencing,
and surrender, to October 23.
He emphasized to Waqar if he
tries to flee it will be
catestrophic. He left the
courtroom. More on Patreon here.
Out on the
23rd floor hallway, the San
Genaro festival on Mulberry
Street could be seen. Waqar
smiled; her relatives still
looked stern. The senior AUSA
was down on the 8th floor
using his cell phone to make
more plans. Inner City Press
returned to the SDNY Press
Room to write this story.
Inner
City Press
will have more
on this - see
also @InnerCityPress
and the new @SDNYLIVE.
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