| Yemeni
Methyl Dealer Cooperated But Untaxed
Cigarettes So Year and a Day Now
Supervision
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 7 – Redhwan Alzanam was
charged with conspiracy to
distribute methyl ester /
5F-ABD.
Then he became a
government cooperator - until
that was revoked when he was
arrested buying untaxed
cigarettes in Pennsylvania,
presumably for re-sale in the
New York City deli he worked
in.
On November 4,
2020 U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Richard M. Berman
began his sentencing. Inner
City Press covered it.
Judge Berman asked about where
Alzanam had been living and
working - with relatives,
including an uncle who was his
apparently abusive father's
partner in the deli.
Reference was
made to the dangers of Yemen,
though Saudi Arabia's air
strikes were not specifically
mentioned.
In November 2020
Judge Berman sentenced him to
a year and a day.
Jump-cut to June
7, 2021, Judge Berman's first
supervised release meeting
with the defendant. Judge
Berman congratulated him for
getting a job at deli five
blocks from his home, and said
he might knock more than a
year off supervised release.
There is, it is reported, a
study of this process that has
been published. Inner City
Press will continue to cover
it.
The case is US v.
Alzanam, 19-cr-364 (Berman)
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