| Russ Gerson Stole $44000 For
Florida Vacation Now Gets Free Lawyer and 2
Months In Jail
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 6 – Russ
Gerson sublet
a Third Avenue
office
that wasn't
his then took
the $44,000
deposits and
spent it on a
vacation to Florida
and expensive
meals. On
August 6 he
came up for
sentencing
before U.S.
District Court
for the Southern
District of
New York
Judge J. Paul
Oetken, with
a publicly
funded Federal
Defender lawyer.
It seemed strange,
as the
argument was
made that
Gerson is
putting all of his
resources
into paying resistition.
So given
his publicly
funded lawyer,
is the public
in fact the
one paying
restitution?
The case is US
v. Gerson,
17-cr-708 (JPO).
Judge Oetken
allowed for
the victim to
speak, taking
down his name.
Then he
sentenced
Gerson to two
months in
prison, to
start in
September.
Gerson has for an
extension so
he can attend a wedding.
Sure, why
not. Now the self
surrender date
is October 15.
As if in
another world, Jhonny
Santana
Cartagena
was brought
into a narcotics
conspiracy by
his father,
got arrested
and was
deported from
the
United States.
Then
he came back
and did it
again.
On
July 30 Judge
Oetken before
sentencing
Santana-Cartagena
on the re-entry
and the new
drug dealing
charges asked if
the
father is in
the Dominican
Republic.
Santana-Cartagena's
lawyers,
from Lincoln Square
Legal Services
at Fordham University
School of Law,
said "his
father is
quite
decisively out
of the
picture."
Assistant US
Attorney Frank
J. Balsamello
said his
office
understands
that the
father is back
in the
Dominican
Republic.
But
a recurrent
theme in the
triple sentencing
was the
assurances
that
Santana-Cartagena
had given SDNY
Judge
Paul A. Crotty
back in 2012
when he got a
lenient
sentence. How
to take
the promises
that this time
is it over
seriously now?
Judge
Oetken said
since the 26
months imposed
by Judge
Crotty hadn't
had a
deterrent
effect, this
time is would
be 42 months, with
credit
for nearly
two years
already
served. His
lawyers asked
that it be
close to New
York, and that
he does NOT
seek any
separation order from
his
co-defendant.
The case is USA
v.
Santana-Cartagena,
12-cr-310
(JPO).
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