| In SDNY Gun Trafficking
Middleman Knott Gets 2 Hips and 36 Months From
Judge Pauley
By Matthew
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 25 – Sean Knott was a
middleman selling felons guns,
one of which was used to
pistol whip a child. On
November 25 he came up for
sentencing before Judge
William H. Pauley III of the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New
York.
Knott's
lawyer Guy Oksenheldler of
Forest Hills focused on his
physical infirmities: two new
hips after a dirt bike
accident, two new knees on the
way. Assistant US Attorney
Sarah Krissoff said these were
no reasons for a downward
variance in sentencing.
Judge Pauley marveled at how
little Knott has done in the
past year in the MCC and MDC
-- apparently mostly "watch
TV" according to a letter
quoted that is not yet in the
docket. Knott worked for seven
weeks in 2018 in a deli, and
for six months in 2016 at
Adelphi as a janitor. Before
that, according to Judge
Pauley, nothing for ten years.
Citing the need to avoid
disparities with the sentence
for lead defendant Chestnut,
Judge Pauley on November 25
sentence Knott to 36 months
then three years of supervised
release. He closed by telling
Knott that so far his biggest
accomplishment was raising two
children, or playing a role in
their raising while defaulting
on child support.
It was a very personal
sentencing. And only Inner
City Press was there in the
SDNY courtroom gallery. The
case is US v. Knott,
18-cr-612 (Pauley).
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