| Isai
Scheinberg of PokerStars Pleads
Guilty For 12 to 18 Months In
Near Empty SDNY Mag Court
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY, March 25--
When Isai Scheinberg, after
being indicted in 2011 and
recently returning
from Switzerland voluntarily
though following an extradition
request appeared in U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on February 20, the mood was
strangely cordial.
SDNY Judge
Lewis A. Kaplan set a trial
date, of October 19 - but told
the defendant's well known
counsel Paul Schechtman he
expected the case reach a
disposition before then, and
that he'd assign the plea to
the Magistrates
Court.
And on
March 25, Inner City Press was
there in the Mag Court,
relocated due to Coronavirus
to large courtroom 24B, when
Scheinberg came to plead
guilty. He told Magistrate
Judge Sarah L. Cave he has a
masters degree in mathematics,
and that he had taken a test
for the virus.
His letter
from the US Attorney's Office,
dated March 3, put his
guideline sentences at twelve
ot eighteen months. Hours
later the US Attorney's Office
put out a release that "in
early October 2019, SCHEINBERG
was ordered to be extradited
to the United States by the
Swiss Federal Office of
Justice, a decision he
initially appealed.
SCHEINBERG subsequently
withdrew his appeal and
surrendered to U.S. federal
agents on January 17, 2020...
SCHEINBERG faces a maximum
sentence of five years in
prison."
Faces -
but the Office's estimate, not
in the release, is 12 to 18
months. No sentencing date has
yet to set. Watch this site.
It
all relates back to so-called
"Black Friday" in April, 2011
whic saw indictments involving
Scheinberg's PokerStars, as
well as Full Tilt Poker,
Ultimate Bet, and Absolute
Poker.
Scheinberg
spent years living both in
Canada and on the Isle
of Man. SDNY prosecutors
started extradition
proceedings during a visit by
Scheinberg to Switzerland. He
was released on one million
dollars bail.The case is US v.
Scheinberg, 10-cr-336
(Kaplan).
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