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Construction Worker Who Sold Cocaine Gets
5 Years and a Day and Vaccine in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 4 – Carlos Alvarez has a
union construction job paying
$41 an hour then, according to
prosecutors, took on cocaine
and gun dealing.
On May 4, U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain
held Alvarez' sentencing.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Assistant US
Attorney Maurene Comey
emphasized that, given
Alvarez' union job, this was
not a crime of need, but of
greed. She also noted that
Alvarez turned down the
COVID-19 vaccine, and said
that undermined some of his
arguments.
Chief
Judge Swain noted that Alvarez
has wisely now agreed to be
vaccined, and that a downward
variance was merited. She
listed Alvarez' difficult
childhood and his service in
the MDC on a suicide watch
group.
On Counts
1 through 7 she imposed one
day, concurrent. On Count 9,
the five year mandatory
minimum. Thus, five years and
one day, followed by three
years of supervised release.
The case is US v.
Alvarez, 18-cr-656 (Swain).
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