| SDNY Judge Crotty Sentences
ID Thief McKay To 42 Months Amid Record of
Vegan Youth Sodomy
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 22 – Rashaun McKay pled
guilty in August 2019 to
conspiracy to commit wire
fraud and aggrevated identity
theft, after using personally
identifiable information of
patients of an urgent care
walk-in medical clinic to buy
thousands of dollars of iPad
and PlayStations.
On January
22 McKay appeared for
sentencing before Senior Judge
Paul A. Crotty of the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
Assistant US Attorney Nicholas
W. Chiuchiolo was advocating
for a Guidelines sentence of
51 to 57 months.
CJA
defense lawyer Stephen Turano
of Newark NJ and Madison
Avenue tried to personalize
McKay to Judge Crotty. He had
commissioned a Mitigation
Report from social worker
Kayla Bennett of Brooklyn.
She wrote that McKay was a
vegan and quoted 1991 King
County Hospital Records that
McKay's "father laughed
inappropriately (might be
drunk)."
Judge Crotty asked Turano
about the appropriate Criminal
History level.
Turano, who
pointed back at the courtroom
gallery empty but for three
family members and Inner City
Press, there with another case
in mind, emphasized that a
1999 offense was a long time
ago. (Inner City Press'
inquiry finds that it involved
forcible sodomy of a 12-year
old, making McKay a Level 2
sex offender, subject to
lifetime registry with the New
York Sex Offender Registry
which, from the Jeffrey
Epstein case, some see as
voluntary.)
Ultimately
Judge Crotty imposed a below
guidelines sentence of 42
months, to be followed by
three years of Supervised
Release. The case is US v.
McKay, 19-cr-339
(Crotty).
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