| Edwin Alamo With Asthma In
MCC Loses Bail Motion On Danger and Risk of
Flight Grounds
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 7 – Edwin Alamo, a
25-year old Bronxite with
asthma incarcerated in lower
Manhattan in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center amid the
Coronavirus pandemic, had an
hour-long bail hearing on
April 7 before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Richard M. Berman.
Alamo could not easily have
been before a more sympathetic
judge. After one of his
relatives described Alamo
trying to get treatment for
asthma at Einstein Hospital in
The Bronx in February 2019,
Judge Berman called the whole
situation heartbreaking and
tragic.
But unlike
for example cooperator Daniel
Hernandez a/k/a Tekashi
#6ix9ine, also with asthma,
and unlike convicted OneCoin
money launderer Mark Scott,
Edwin Alamo was not released.
After Assistant US Attorney
Daniel Wolf questioned the
relative about the walk-up
apartment building in which
Alamo would be staying, and
his failure to fill his
prescription for an asthma
pump (the relative said he has
not health insurance), the
legal standard was not
met.
Judge
Berman found both that Alamo
if released would present a
danger to the community, and a
risk of flight given the
amount of time he faces on
drug courier and other
charges. Recidivism
also, in fairness, was an
issue, perhaps the dispostive
one.
His next
hearing, at which unlike this
one he will perhaps be
present, is set for May 7. The
case is US v. Alamo, 19-cr-640
(Berman).
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